Sentences with phrase «miles of thread»

Ukrainian artist Zenyk Palagnuik channeled his inner handyman and used 13,000 nails and 15 miles of thread to create a life - like portrait of Justin Timberlake.

Try this one on for size: 315,000 stitches using 1.8 miles of thread.

He was a submariner during the war, and since then has been involved in a career of scientific research that has ranged from the production of gold leaf on Bibles to helping du Pont uncover impurities in nylon, where «a break in the miles of thread is a disaster.»

Jonathan Livingston Seagull and The Living Bible — someone said you could fly a kite to the moon with the miles of thread that bind together the pages of the 25 million copies of those books now in print.

Boasting a half - mile of thread and 45,000 stitches used in the brilliant design of the Mercedes 2017 G - Class SUV, Mercedes creates a lustrous cabin and keeps its longevity of interior traditional elegance.

Not exact matches

They reported rapid advances of the rift in January, May and June, which increased its length to over 200 km and left the iceberg hanging on by a thread of ice just 4.5 km (2.8 miles) wide.

The spacecraft threaded the needle through a 36 - by - 57 mile (60 by 90 kilometers) window in space — the equivalent of a commercial airliner arriving no more off target than the width of a tennis ball.

Shortly before 10:30 on a recent evening, with a nearly full moon luminous through mile - high air, Jonathan Van Blerkom climbed into his car, eased out of his driveway, and threaded his way through a quiet Denver neighborhood to check on the fate of some precious human eggs.

Sitting about two miles from the base of the dammed 323,000 - acre Castaic Lake, the school's campus is also threaded by high - voltage power lines and underground crude - oil pipelines.

But such is the suspension's inability to isolate you from even the smallest ridge or lump in the road (a common thread of modern Mercedes - AMG saloons, to be fair, and not normally a bothersome one) and its restlessness over bigger bumps that you seldom have the patience to tolerate a firmer setting than is absolutely necessary for more than a mile or two.

He had no fear of the Forest by day and enjoyed the peaceful walk along the narrow track that threaded its way through the dense trees for mile after mile.

With a terrain described as dramatic — «more than 20,000 square miles of salt deserts, untamed jungles and an endless maze of multicolored rocky mountains rising up to 16,000 feet, threaded by a scenic ravine called Quebrada de Humahuaca — a onetime Inca trade route leading north to Bolivia, now a Unesco World Heritage site» — perhaps portenos could not find a way inside its depths.

But perhaps the most singular aspect of Jujuy is its dramatic landscape: more than 20,000 square miles of salt deserts, untamed jungles and an endless maze of multicolored rocky mountains rising up to 16,000 feet, threaded by a scenic ravine called Quebrada de Humahuaca — a onetime Inca trade route leading north to Bolivia, now a Unesco World Heritage site.

You could check this Flyertalk thread for all the available links or here is one of the working link for 75K miles signup bonus.

The card comes with a standard signing up bonus of 30,000 miles after $ 1,000 in spending but you should always check the FlyerTalk credit card threads (here and here) to see if there's a better bonus available that Chase aren't publicising.

Barnard, who has been running Points.com for a decade, has found that despite this difference of opinion about the value of miles, «one common thread of people who participate in these programs is they all have this aspirational view of them: «I'm doing all this to get to Fiji one day on these miles.»

You'll not only earn 2 miles per $ 1 but, according to this Flyertalk thread, Uber is coded as a travel merchant and thus you'll be able to redeem Arrival miles at a rate of 1.1 cents per point.

A 2,000 square mile section of the Larsen C Ice Shelf is hanging by a thread as it continues to drift toward the Weddell Sea.