Even a half
mile distance from the fire station can mean the difference between a total loss and an annoyance that requires you to air out the smoke from your kitchen.
Not exact matches
The view was acquired at a
distance of approximately 1.2 million
miles (2 million kilometers)
from Titan.
The C - 5M can haul 120,000 pounds of cargo more than 5,500
miles — the
distance from Dover Air Force base in Delaware to Incirlik airbase in Turkey — without refueling.
This infrared photo, taken
from 2.2 million
miles away, reveals the vast
distance between Earth and the moon — 239,000
miles, or about 30 diameters of Earth stacked together.
WWF Australia has said the material dredged during the port expansion would be enough to fill 150,000 dump trucks that «lined up bumper - to - bumper would stretch
from Brisbane to Melbourne», a
distance of more than 1,000 kilometres (620
miles).
Pearce was eight
miles away
from campus and bicycled the
distance every day to avoid the costs of fuel or public transportation.
The flight, which was scheduled to run
from Los Angeles International Airport to Singapore's Changi Airport, covers a
distance of about 8,700
miles (or about 7,560 nautical
miles), according to United (ual).
«If you can move people
from city to city at 1,200 (745
miles per hour) to 1,300 kilometers per hour, you have a system that can reshape society,» he explained, suggesting that as
distances shrink, economic productivity could increase as traffic disappears.
The bridge, discussions for which began in 2008, could reduce the
distance of transporting iron ore
from the Jewish Autonomous Republic in the Russian Far East to Chinese steel mills
from 646 to 145
miles.
As the two planets make their separate ways around the sun, the
distance between Mars and the Earth varies immensely —
from about 35 million
miles, to nearly 250 million
miles separating the two celestial bodies.
Your new workplace must be at least 50
miles farther away
from your old home compared with the
distance between your old job and old dwelling.
The recently discovered planet is only 4.25 light - years — about 25 trillion
miles — away
from Earth, which is still a significant
distance.
The point is you speak of things as FACT and then something changes by 14 BILLION YEARS in a
distance of 347
miles from the Earth observation to Orbit, and you just say OH well that's science for ya.
For example, the seeming unlimited number of galaxies (with each containing anywhere
from an estimated 10 to 500 billion stars) and the precise order that exists within the universe, and the shear
distance between stars (an average about 4.2 light years or about 25 trillion
miles), has caused some to stop and look in awe.
I checked, and the driving
distance from Akron to Chicago is 365
miles, likely six hours driving time.
If we now consider the number of the stars (15,000 x 106 visible to the optical telescope alone) you will understand how it is possible to say, cosmically speaking, that we are enveloped in a sort of monstrous gas formed of molecules as heavy as the Sun moving at
distances from each other so great that they have to be reckoned in light - years (bearing in mind that light travels at a speed of 186,000
miles per second, and that we are only 8 light - minutes distant
from the sun)-- a gas made of stars!
They had covered a
distance of only 125
miles though Macedonia is separated
from Mysia by the lonian Sea.
The indicated
distance of about seven
miles (literally sixty stadia)
from Jerusalem would narrowly limit the possibilities if its accuracy were not made doubtful by a different reading in a few important manuscripts, which read a hundred and sixty stadia, i.e., about eighteen
miles.
Ensconced in the heart of the city, this enduring property is only four
miles from the Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport and within walking
distance to the many area attractions, including Talking Stick Resort Arena, Chase Field and the Heard Museum.
Less than a
mile from Mercedes - Benz Superdome, our hotel puts you walking
distance from the excitement of the stadium.
«Visitors» are determined by a
distance of 50
miles or more, one way,
from their homes.
More than two thousand people had already arrived, some
from a
distance of forty to fifty
miles; old gray - bearded pioneers, with their wives, in ox - wagons; young men, profuse in the matter of yellow - topped boots and jingling spurs, on horseback; fair maidens in calico, curls, and pearl - powder, some on horseback, others in wagons and buggies.
Food
miles is a term which refers to the
distance food is transported
from the time of its production until it reaches the consumer.
Food is being transported longer and longer
distances - food
miles -
from producer to consumer.
The meeting saw a variety of
distances from 600m to 5000m contested, and the centrepiece was the elite
mile races.
But
from the
distance of my home in Eugene, Ore., it seemed inconceivable that a 26 -
mile race could be run through the city just six days after the storm, with fires having leveled blocks in Queens, with neighborhoods in Brooklyn under eight feet of water, with the subways and the airports flooded and 40,000 left homeless.
In the first place, tournaments are often held many
miles — sometimes hundreds or thousands of
miles —
from where the angler lives, and he will travel that
distance, take the time and pay the cost only if he can compete in a tournament.
Located on Long Island, 29
miles from Times Square (and
from such other nighttime institutions as «21» and the Stork Club), the new track is dedicated to the proposition that the New Yorker and his lady will willingly cover a
distance of ground to spend a sporting evening in an atmosphere of nightclub comfort.
She finished the three
miles and was proud of herself, so she looked for a 10K to run because her father loved that
distance, and she wanted to honor him after his death
from an unexpected heart attack at 49.
But to more than balance the pole vault, there was Jim Beatty, the tiny
distance runner
from the Santa Clara Youth Village, who won the
mile in 3:58.8, although he was handicapped in his bid to regain his American
mile record when his teammate and pace setter, Laszlo Tabori, was forced out after the second lap by a week - old hip injury.
Rodriguez had made his bid for inclusion in The Guinness Book of World Records by riding the Hurricane for 173 consecutive hours — good for a total of 2,624
miles, or the
distance from Haines City to San Francisco.
In 1976 my father swam about 800
miles, or the approximate
distance from New York to Chicago.
In 1974, a man named Gordon Ainsley set out on foot
from Squaw Valley through the Sierra Nevadas covering a
distance of 100
miles.
Every member of every club in the United States has the exact longitude and latitude of his loft plotted by an aerial survey company, and the
distances from the loft to the various starting points of a race course are measured to the nearest hundredth of a
mile.
The race was for young birds, pigeons hatched last spring, and the
distance was 350
miles over the southwest course
from Charlottesville, Va..
From the summit of it — some 47 storeys high — you can see
miles into the
distance.
6 — the number of
miles of seating if every seat was placed side by side (further than the
distance from Anfield to the city centre and back).
That's about 2 1/2
miles from Wrigley, a couple of blocks further than DeVry but about the same
distance in driving time, according to online mapping sites.
Our Flexi - School parents mostly come
from well outside our normal catchment area,
distances of 20 to 40
miles are not uncommon and
from this it is clear the level dedication these parents have to child or children's educational development in this way.
During Bicycle Sundays, the parkway is open exclusively for bicyclists, in - line skaters, scooters, walkers and joggers
from Exit 22 at the Westchester County Center to Exit 4 at Scarsdale Road in Yonkers, a round - trip
distance of 13
miles.
The planned itinerary for the tour is: Sunday: Travel up
from Glasgow - camping in Wick -
distance travelled 265
miles Monday: Visiting offices in: Wick 9 am to 9.45 am; Inverness 12.30 pm to 1.15 pm; Elgin 2.15 pm to 2.30 pm; Buckie 3.15 to 4 pm - camping in Peterhead - 160
miles Tuesday: Peterhead 9 am to 9.45 am; Perth 12 pm to 12.45 pm; Oban 3.15 pm to 4.30 pm - camping in Rothesay - 270
miles Wednesday: Rothesay 8.30 am to 9.15 am; Dunoon 10.15 am to 10.45 am; Greenock 11.30 am to 12.15 pm; Irvine 1 pm to 1.45 pm; Dumfries 3.30 pm to 4.15 pm - camping in Stirling - 239
miles Thursday: Stirling 9 am to 9.45 am; Falkirk 10.45 am to 11.30 am; Grangemouth 1 pm to 1.45 pm; Dunfermline 3 pm to 3.45 pm - camping in Galashiels - 205
miles Friday: Hawick 10 am to 10.45 am; Galashiels 11.30 am to 12.15 pm
«The studded leather mini-dress looked good
from a
distance... of, say, 200
miles.
If we could view the earth
from a
distance of 35,000,000
miles, the
distance which separates Mars
from us during this month of July, we should know ourselves by our geometrical design.
The EVLA's receiving system will be sensitive enough to detect the weak radio transmission
from a cell phone at the
distance of Jupiter — half a billion
miles away — at a projected cost of $ 94 million.
The object, which the researchers have nicknamed Planet Nine, has a mass about 10 times that of Earth and orbits about 20 times farther
from the sun on average than does Neptune (which orbits the sun at an average
distance of 2.8 billion
miles).
And all of this
from a
distance of more than a quadrillion
miles!
MAY 1910 AIR RACES — «Louis Paulhan, the most distinguished aviator of them all, has soared nearly a
mile into the air, and finally has surpassed even that feat by flying
from London to Manchester, covering a
distance of 186
miles, with but one stop for fuel, at an average speed of over forty
miles an hour.
According to Stone, Voyager 1 reached the termination shock in December 2004, at a
distance of 9 billion
miles from Earth.
MESSENGER, the first probe to orbit Mercury, took a black - and - white image
from a
distance of 61 million
miles (98 million kilometers) as part of a campaign to search for natural satellites of the planet.
An international team of scientists have been pouring over data streaming back
from the Venus Express since April 2006 when it began surveying Venus, which at its minimum
distance is around 25 million
miles (40 million kilometers)
from Earth.