Sentences with phrase «miles in a short period»

De Pater's long - time colleague and coauthor Ashley Davies, a volcanologist with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, Calif., said that the recent eruptions resemble past events that spewed tens of cubic miles of lava over hundreds of square miles in a short period of time.

But there is one method that allows travelers to get a huge amount of miles in a short period of time.

Although the 40,000 - mile bonus is not the highest available from this card, it's still a great opportunity to rake up a large sum of miles in a short period of time.

Especially now that it's becoming a bit more difficult to earn large numbers of points and miles in a short period of time because of banks cracking down on «abuse», this is a tool many of us can leverage to get the redemption we want when we want it.

Not exact matches

On November 4, 2010, NASA's EPOXI mission flew at a close distance of around 435 miles (or 700 kilometers) by Comet Hartley 2, which was then an active short - period comet with jets of gas and dust coming off its sun - lit end and which completes an orbit in less than 6.5 years.

This is because local foods cultivated within their natural season are allowed to mature and ripen fully, rather than being picked early so they can be shipped thousands of miles (losing what little flavour and nutrients they've developed in their short growth period.)

I bought this truck with 150K miles on it already and have put 25K more on it in a short period of time.

The C 350e is helped by a fully electric range of around 19 miles, whereas the C 300h can only drive in zero - emissions mode for very short periods of time at low speeds.

And if you need an example of how far we've come in a relatively short period of time, drive behind a Jeep Liberty CDL for a few miles.

The five - years / unlimited mileage warranty is already impressive enough (and thoroughly tempting for company car buyers, considering the miles fleet vehicles can potentially rack up in such a short period of time), but it's the 10 - years / 100, 000 - miles powertrain warranty that sets the Genesis G80 apart from its chief rivals.

The goal was to scrub off 100 miles an hour in as short a period as possible.

Kenneth Lin, from CreditKarma.com, says he himself opens and closes at least one card per year in order to snag bonus miles and cancel the account before annual fees are assessed and that turning over 10 cards in a short period of time is likely to push a good credit score into an average or poor one.

Lost dogs find their way home by smelling and since a sight hound does not have as keen a sense of smell as other breeds, a Greyhound that runs 40 miles per hour will be a long way away in a short period of time and may not be able to find his way home and back to his loved ones.

They are sprinters and can run up to 45 miles per hour for very short periods (the average speed on a dog track is generally in the 30's).

High Altitude Areas: In high - altitude areas like Mexico City (elevation 7,600 feet, approximately 1.5 miles above sea level); most people need a short adjustment period as long as several days.

Most people can buy up to $ 10,000 worth of gift cards per day at their local mall and while there are certainly ways to buy more, who really needs that many miles or that large of a spending requirement to complete in a short period of time?

Glacials several miles thick covered most of northern North America just 18,000 years ago and in a relatively short period of time, they melted and receded.

A very short hand version of a typical visitation order (assuming both spouses reside within 100 miles) is as follows: the 1st, 3rd, and 5th Friday of every month from Friday (beginning at either school dismissal or 6:00 p.m.) until the following Sunday at 6:00 p.m., every Thursday beginning at either school dismissal or 6:00 p.m. and ending either at 8:00 p.m. that night or when school resumes the following morning), as well as 30 days in the Summer, and additional visitation periods for Spring Break, Thanksgiving, and Christmas, depending on whether it an odd or even numbered year.