Sentences with phrase «millions of miles from»

Chase and American Express buy millions of miles from British Airways and if they now know that these miles are worth a fraction of what they used to be, maybe they can even get a better deal or provide us more transfer bonuses to make up the difference.

A large shield blocks out solar radiation, and the telescope orbits millions of miles from Earth's heat.

right above links to 5 moments that changed the world, from history.com the last article says about the space station, the said that the space station is millions of miles from earth????? Such liars... It is 350 miles in the lower level of the atmosphere, what a plunder.

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Hubble was about 400 - 500 million miles away from Jupiter at the time, and it was taking pictures of Europa's backlit silhouette as it moved across the gas giant's surface:

The view was acquired at a distance of approximately 1.2 million miles (2 million kilometers) from Titan.

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.

But as someone who has traveled more than two million miles over the course of my career, I have come up with some overlooked travel etiquette tips that everyone can benefit from.

US - based Chevron (CVX) was fined 50 million reals ($ 28 million) by Brazil's federal government earlier this month for leaking around 2,400 to 3,000 barrels from one of its offshore drilling platforms located 75 - miles off the coast of Brazil's iconic beaches in Rio de Janeiro.

And when you're tasked with building and launching spacecraft millions or even billions of miles from Earth, on missions that take several years, long - term planning is pretty critical.

After arm - twisting by Gov. Ann W. Richards, who had lobbied to keep Apple from going to another state, Mr. Hays joined two other commissioners to approve nearly $ 1 million in tax incentives to Apple in return for the company's agreeing to build an office complex in this suburban county a few miles north of Austin.

Mars is tens of millions of miles away from Earth at its closest orbit and hundreds of millions of miles away at its most distant.

Barrick Gold cut its 2014 copper forecast to 410 million to 440 million pounds, from previous guidance of 470 million to 500 million pounds due to a partial collapse of the main conveyor at its Lumwana mile in Zambia.

Nvidia, a hardware firm whose graphic processing units (GPUs) have seen booming sales as a result of the rise of deep learning, lists uses on its website that range from Adobe's DeepFont, which identifies the fonts used in an image, to the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, which detects gravitational waves millions of miles away in real time.

It enables eight million residents, thousands of commuters, and hundreds of tourists to turn the tap and drink potable water from miles away.

Hundreds of miles away, the colors of the Grand Canyon — layers of red and gold rock millions of years in the making — are often obscured by smog from the cars of Phoenix, Vegas and even Los Angeles.

And honestly, do you really believe that it was possible to place exactly two of every species on one large boat (given that there are literally MILLIONS of land - based species in the world, some of which would have resided many thousands of miles away from Noah on a separate continent not mentioned in the Bible)?

Watch for Father Lemaitre's bold idea to gain even further traction from the findings of the James Webb Space Telescope when it begins orbiting the sun, a million miles from Earth, in a few years.

Perhaps the Illinois farmers who drove into the towns from miles around to hear the Lincoln - Douglas debates were a different kind of people from the millions in their living rooms in front of the television screen.

But as you go through life, these tiny miracles add up, like little grains of sand, until many years from now, you have millions and billions of grains of sand, and you look back at your life, and see miles and miles of gleaming white beach.

For millions of us earthlings, the pictures of earth from thousands of miles in space give a fresh perspective on our human situation, Archibald MacLeish described it in these beautiful and now - familiar words:

«We're close, but you feel like you're a million miles away,» Hamilton said during a break from tending to the needs of his church and planning a prayer vigil.

The $ 50 million resort is only a half mile from the Plaza, is extremely upscale for the area and consists of 37 themed suites situated on four acres surrounding ponds, waterfalls, and a meadow.

From Cumbria, the paper makes the 300 mile trip to the South East, where Poppy Factories produce more than 40 million Remembrance Poppies, 500,000 poppies of other types, 5 million Remembrance petals, 100,000 wreaths and sprays, 750,000 Remembrance Crosses and other Remembrance items.

The chain currently sources 10 million pounds of fruits and vegetables each year from farms located within 350 miles of its restaurants.

Byrne Dairy's average farm is only 35 miles from it's plants where they receive around 50 million pounds of milk each month.

There may be a few fragile types that do but there are not many South Americans in my experience that struggle on the physical front — most of them had a hard upbringing a million miles removed from some of our soft homegrown boys.

This is a club that was at the door of greatness in 2006... Look at us now... Barely making the CL group stage (necessary in order to get the cash reward because we are million miles away from winning the competition) and falling short in the league every season like a tradition.

It's a million miles, easy, from civilization, lost among stands of white fir and cedar.

Tbh if giroud still isnt match fit then i do nt see why we cant give joel campbell a start, fed up of watchin dopey sonogo running around aimlessly when he is a million miles away from bein good enough for us

First of all, winning the League cup or the FA cup is a million miles away from winning the league.

Madrid's budget is a million miles away from the likes of Barcelona and Real, and Madrid's squad isn't packed full of world class players.

Arsenal's form over the course of the second half of last season would suggest Arsene Wenger isn't a million miles from putting together a squad that can challenge for major honours.

Wenger cites all these great teams while justifying his desire to play the «Arsenal way», but fails to consider that his record of success is a million miles away from all the teams that he claims to emulate.

Who cares if it effects the players and we get beat by bournmouth our season is already over a million miles away from challenging for major honours and if we do nt take action now this club will never recover and end up just being a average middle of table laughing stock!!

Frightening how far arsenal are away from challenging for prem league tittle absoulutely a million miles away I am 48 and can't see them winning it in the rest of my life time feel sorry for young supporters who may never see it happen either the club is a complete shambles from top to bottom and are in serious crisis I just can't watch this rubbish anymore!!

Pivotal to that of course are the actions of Damien Comolli, a divisive figure perhaps not a million miles away from Philip Seymour Hoffman's cult leader in the movie The Master.

I agree GiE that the figures cited contain a degree of conjecture and will not be 100 % reliable — but probably not a million miles from the truth.

This year's final will be played inside the spectacular Wembley, home of the England national team, which isn't a million miles away from Chelsea's stamping ground of Stamford Bridge.

Both Anderson and Darren Fletcher in the middle are a million miles away from being classed as world class material, while this young and inexperienced back - line has been found wanting against lesser teams of late, namely Norwich and Basel.

«a day in the life» is the rambling monologue of a housewife (not a million miles from myself;) juggling with household chores and sorting out the kids, answering the phone while cooking dinner and worrying about the economy — but at the end of the day when the jobs are done, you can escape from everyday worries by going for a run, a bike ride or for a swim — where you're alone to think stuff through or think of nothing at all — and certainly not about the phonebill or the mountain of ironing that needs doing.

Eight miles of revetments, which prevent the shoreline from being eroded, are being built in a $ 300 million venture financed mostly by the federal government, with participation by the state, city and Park District.

Yes, the formula companies keep adding a new ingredient every now and then and touting it but formula remains MILLIONS of miles away from breastmilk.

They realise that he's not a million miles from themselves as a person, as an individual, someone who can still have a bit of fun, a great laugh, and still have a great career.

The state determined that an area encompassing just over 1 million acres can accommodate wind turbines at least 21 miles from land to «ensure that, for the vast majority of the time, turbines would have no discernible or visible impact from the casual viewer on the shore.»

In 2011, Brian passed legislation and negotiated a deal between the State and the City to create $ 200 million worth of new parkland and open space on Manhattan's East Side, including a mile - long esplanade from East 60th Street south to 38th Street, which will close the last major gap in the greenway circling the island.

But we can not forget that these issues will be a million miles away from the concerns of most voters at the next election.

The United States Navy is planning a new round of sonar and weapons testing and training exercises in its Atlantic Training and Testing Study Area, which covers some 2.6 million nautical miles of inshore and offshore waters, extending from the...

London has its attractions, but the idyllic coast of Anglesey is a million miles from the hustle and bustle of the city.

Mahoney said she convinced Cuomo to provide $ 200 million in state money for a sports stadium on the site of the demolished Kennedy Square public housing project - about a mile down the hill from the Dome.

Millions of Americans are expected to travel more than 50 miles from their homes for the holiday.