Sentences with phrase «miles around the region»

Not exact matches

Moving years later to new jobs and a new hometown five hundred miles away, in a region more densely populated with Catholics, Elizabeth and I «shopped around» until we finally settled on a new parish.

In this particular quasar, the water vapor is distributed around the black hole in a gaseous region spanning hundreds of light - years in size (a light - year is about six trillion miles).

Saturday night found him m a region of the Cumberland Mountains, «where there was no gospel minister for many miles around, and where, as I learned, many of the scattered population had never heard a gospel sermon in all their lives, and where the inhabitants knew no Sabbath only to hunt, and visit, drink and dance.»

Thursday night, the National Weather Service called for winds around 60 miles per hour in some parts of the region, and Greece residents say with the lake levels so high, it's the waves from the wind that cause the most damage.

While the bus heads north to the exclusion zone, the 18 - mile - wide region around the reactor, the Web site organizers start showing Pripyat movies.

Lightning is blamed for setting off the fires, including a massive blaze that has destroyed around 42 square miles (110 square kilometers) of forestland, along with 16 homes, and has threatened the Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, America's oldest Buddhist monastery in the Big Sur region of California.

The geographic region that will see a total solar eclipse, known as the path of totality, is 70 miles wide, hitting land westward of Salem, Oregon (just south of Portland) around 10:15 am and moving out over the Atlantic Ocean around 2:50 pm just after passing through Columbia, South Carolina.

The proposal to change the allocation system would broaden sharing of donated livers to a 150 - nautical mile radius around the donor hospital, regardless of which organ region a potential recipient lives in.

The team, which also involved scientists from British Antarctic Survey and engineers from the National Oceanography Centre, captured data on temperature, speed of water flow and underwater turbulence rates of the Orkney Passage, a region of the Southern Ocean which is around 4,000 m deep and roughly 500 miles from the Antarctic Peninsula.

The most conspicuous feature on Vesta is a giant impact crater located around its south polar region, which is 310 miles (499 kilometers) across and nearly 12 miles (19 km) deep around a «bull's - eye» central peak rising 11 miles (or 18 km) above the exposed mantle rock of the crater floor — that is characteristic of rock rebounding from an impact.

Grand Parkway is part of the planned 180 - mile circumferential Grand Parkway toll highway around the Greater Houston Metropolitan Region.

To honour this anniversary and to learn more I covered around 500 miles of WW1 battle fields at Ypres, Arras, The Somme and Chemin des Dames in the Champagne - Ardenne region and thousands of cemeteries, museums and monuments.

Spanning over 90 miles of Mediterranean coastline in the region of Andalusia in southern Spain, the Costa del Sol has been drawing visitors from around the world since the 1950s, when stars such as Brigitte Bardot, Sean Connery, and Frank Sinatra flocked to the area.

Haleakala volcano dominates the southeastern region of Maui with a crater 3,000 feet deep and 21 miles around.

The whole region around Perth has been likened to one big holiday resort with multiple attractions, miles of clean beaches and waterways, award - winning wineries, adventure activities of every kind and accommodation to suit all budgets.

Here's how many miles are needed for Economy & Business Class awards from the contiguous 48 states to various regions around the world:

The site was once a capital of the region and at the height of its power the kingdom covered around 1,500 square miles (3,885 square km).

Encompassing 300 km (186 miles) of prime waterfront property on the north shore of the Dominican Republic, the region around Puerto Plata is known by some as the «Silver Coast.»

Although I don't know of academic studies, a better vineyard proxy, with fewer confounding factors than uk, might be the recent history of Okananagan, B.C. wine region, in which vinifera plantings have generally spread northward around a 70 - mile long lake.

Aside from the fact that 90 degrees north sits in the middle of a 2.5 - mile - deep ocean, that's quite a statement considering two things: first, no one has been routinely monitoring sea ice along both coastlines between then and now, and second, the region was clearly warmer than it is today (in summers) around 8,000 to 10,000 years ago — on both the Siberian and North American sides.

In Australia, it's led to a shift in the «subtropical dry zone,» a region that stretches around the world and receives little rain, by 125 to 250 miles (200 to 400 kilometers) to the south.

The Challenge of Measuring Groundwater in California's Central Valley 06.02.2017 — A new study estimates that around 9.5 cubic miles of groundwater was pumped from the region... Read More.