Sentences with phrase «miles than points»

In this case, the rates were so close that I looked at flights first to see if there was availability, even though I'd spend more miles than points.

Not exact matches

Because of the way frequent flyer programs work, you can usually get a lot more value from a lot fewer miles than credit card points.

That's down three points from 2015, when 56 percent of respondents reported not having taken a vacation in a year and 41 percent admitted to having not been on a leisure trip of at least a week to a place 100 miles or more from home in more than two years.

Up to that point, Google had quietly sent early versions of the car, with a «safety driver» behind the wheel, more than 100,000 miles in California.

One - way flights are often more expensive on a per - mile basis than round - trip, but they don't require extra points.

Less than 10 miles outside of Washington, D.C. it counts proximity as a selling point.

«Really, it comes down to quality, accurate data that covers many, many, many different locations,» he says, pointing out that they can forecast within a one - kilometre radius of a user's location, a smaller surface area — and therefore more useful — than the one - mile radius standard in the U.S..

Each listing includes the item (s) to be delivered, the number of miles from point A to point B, and the price to be paid, explains David Hater, a 50 - year - old retired Army officer who's delivered more than 400 gigs for Roadie, earning anywhere from $ 8 for a local delivery to $ 400 for «delivering a few extra boxes and making a stop or two along the way» on interstate trips.

Most credit cards offer more perks than just miles and points.

However, if you transfer those points to airline miles, you can get more than $ 700 out of the introductory bonus.

This will cause the value of your points to fluctuate, depending on the redemption you're getting — we urge readers to make sure they are not walking away with a value of less than $ 0.02 per mile, otherwise they'll be devaluing their points significantly.

The article quotes David E. Teitelbaum, Partner at Sidley Austin, as saying that the guidance will be «challenging» and Angela Angelovska - Wilson, Counsel at Latham & Watkins in Washington D.C. and a Member of the Finance Department and the Financial Regulatory Group, as explaining as others have how the guidance creates more confusion than it clarifies: the new definitions introduce ambiguities and where it seems to target Bitcoin it isn't clear if it affects programs offering «miles» or «points,» etc..

A mile is valued at 0.7 cents / point, much lower than booking cash tickets using credit card points which are usually 1 cent / point at minimum.

But, for a few people who are in the miles and points game, these once - in - a-lifetime experiences cost less than $ 1,500.

He had hiked for more than three miles — at one point he heard a distant shot — when he stopped to call again.

This is 100 % wrong, we are third in terms of injuries this season; last season we ended as 1st by a mile with 289 injuries (1 player out for 1 weeks = 1 point)(about 80 extra weeks of injuries more than # 2).

Maybe people don't remember Mustafi from 2014 WC... he's miles better than Mertesacker who should be phased out at this point anyways, and would be great with Koscielny.

But I wouldn't rule out, that our results will continue to be as bad, as they are, so we in a month or two find ourselves lying no better than sixth and with 12 - 15 points to the leaders and also miles behind the likes of spurs.

Actually, it is less than 15 miles long and four miles across at the widest point.

When the match race takes its place in racing's history books, the fundamentalists will almost inevitably give decisive weight to the circumstance mentioned by Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons elsewhere in this issue: over an off track (in patches slow) Nashua and Swaps raced together at killing early speed: five - eighths of a mile in 58 seconds, three - quarters of a mile in 1:10 2/5 — two seconds faster than Swaps's time at the same point in the Kentucky Derby over a fast track.

Kos is better than squillachi by a mile and i think he will make a fine player for us, but squillachi is not gonna cut it at arsenal, too error prone, as long as he's there, we'll still be droping points.

Replicating Latimer's vantage point in a similar vehicle, starting back more than.2 miles, at no point in the approach is the backdrop to the traffic light above the horizon.

However the prime minister's performance and innovation unit has previously rejected this proposal saying that «numerical access criteria could well undermine the government's policy rather than strengthen it», and pointing out that «it would be possible for the Post Office to close down two - thirds of its rural outlets whilst still ensuring that 99 per cent of people in rural areas lived within three miles of a post office».

But community groups are concerned about the potential for accidents, and environmentalists about the toll nuclear takes on water resources and the wildlife killed when reactors use river or lake water for cooling — particularly at Indian Point, less than 30 miles north of New York City on the Hudson River.

As G2 swings closer to the black hole's event horizon — the point past which even light can not escape — gravity has already stretched its leading edge into a ribbon more than 90 billion miles long, pulling it away from the tail, which isn't yet feeling the black hole's full effects.

And since all we have to base this number off of is a starting and ending point, it's possible that she took an indirect path and traveled a great deal more than 6,000 miles.

This jet, moving at perhaps 4,000 miles per hour, or more than five times the speed of sound in air, strikes so quickly that water molecules do not have time to flow away from the point of impact.

By this time, Tambora's umbrella ash cloud extended for more than three hundred miles at its widest point.

Pointing out that «no human being... has ventured further upward into space than 386 miles» in the last 30 years, President Bush proposed new goals for NASA as 2004 began.

«New Horizons is the latest in a long line of scientific accomplishments at NASA, including multiple missions orbiting and exploring the surface of Mars in advance of human visits still to come; the remarkable Kepler mission to identify Earth - like planets around stars other than our own; and the DSCOVR satellite that soon will be beaming back images of the whole Earth in near real - time from a vantage point a million miles away.

Nosing in and out of estuaries, including New York's East River (where he did not linger), Chessie made it to Point Judith, Rhode Island — a distance of more than 2,000 miles and a manatee migration record — before finally turning south on August 16.

With more than 17 million Americans now living within one mile of an oil and gas well, there is concern about the possible contamination of surface and groundwater by trace metals, radioactive isotopes and other inorganic compounds released in these areas, they point out.

Carved by the Colorado River, this massive chasm — more than 275 miles (443 kilometers) long, 18 miles (29 km) across at its widest point, and in some places more than a mile (1.6 km) deep — never fails to exceed expectations.

«The denser the urban area, the better the benefit,» Kalkstein said, pointing out that a city like New York with roughly 27,000 people per square mile could save many more lives with vegetation and albedo enhancement than Los Angeles with its 7,500 - people - per - square - mile population density.

In a final test Farman flew from one end of the field to the other, and skirted along the fortifications at this point in a large circle, covering in all more than 2 kilometers (1 1/4 miles) in a flight which lasted for nearly three minutes.

Deimos is about 9.3 miles across (15 km) at its largest point and is farther from Mars than Phobos.

Others, at their farthest point from the Sun, spend years traveling less than 15 miles per hour.

The JWST will have a mirror 6.5 metres (21.3 feet) in diameter, seven times larger than that of the HST, and will orbit the Sun in a Lissajous pattern around the second Lagrangian point, about 1.5 million km (930,000 miles) from Earth on the planet's nightside.

There is a higher possibility that at some point I will need to sprint away from an animal / attacker etc or pull myself over something in a similar situation than that I will have to run 26.2 miles at one time.

As researchers in this review pointed out, ``... the 3500 - kcal rule predicts that a person who increases daily energy expenditure by 100 kcal by walking 1 mile (1.6 km) per day will lose more than 50 lb (22.7 kg) over a period of 5 years, the true weight loss is only about 10 lb (4.5 kg), assuming no compensatory increase in caloric intake, because changes in mass concomitantly alter the energy requirements of the body.»

I walk 4 miles every morning and wonder if it's better to have arms bent and pumping in step than just swinging and pointing at the ground.

But his metabolism isn't good at continuing to produce energy for a long time — If he and I were to run at my favorite speed, I'd be able to run for far longer than he can: he would be running at a pace that feels «low effort» to him, but at some point (probably before he's even run a mile) he'd already be feeling like he wants to stop.

Stuck in a car on 2,200 mile road trip with one obnoxious person is more than enough, so while Peter Highman (Robert Downey Jr.) laments his misfortune of having to hitch a ride from Atlanta to Los Angeles with the trouble - causing, id - driven wannabe actor Ethan Tremblay (Zach Galifianakis), we have to put up with Ethan and the occasionally violent (in a rage to the point of blackout even), manic - depressive loose cannon that is Peter.

Children conceived to mothers living within 2 miles of a Superfund site before it was cleaned are 7.4 percentage points more likely to repeat a grade, have 0.06 of a standard deviation lower test scores, and are 6.6 percentage points more likely to be suspended from school than their siblings who were conceived after the site was cleaned.

Not only does the clutch suffer from less - than - ideal engagement point and a lack of feel, but our long - term test vehicle went through a clutch in less than 15,000 miles.

January 2007: GTI named Automobile of the Year We said: «This GTI feels like it has more build quality than anything within miles of its price point.

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We then tested the other, completely stock GT - R and found it produced a solid 506bhp with 485 lb ft, but before any conclusions are jumped to about the Y - pipe, I should point out that this car had only covered 1500 miles, so probably had a considerably tighter mill than Godzilla 2.

* Vehicles previously in service as a dealer demonstration or service loaner unit and has been in service for 6 months or has less than 10,000 miles on the odometer, a limited CPO inspection has been performed on this vehicle rather than the standard 111 - point CPO inspection.

I got an oil change, tire rotation, and multi point inspection on a car with less than 14K miles in about 1 hr.