Sentences with phrase «minute miles of»

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The human body was simply not capable of running one mile in less than four minutes.

But once Bannister did it, all of a sudden other runners started repeating the feat, and today the four - minute mile is considered a yardstick by which all distance runners are measured.

So maybe if we had a floating platform out off the coast of the USA, off the coast of New York, say 20 or 30 miles out, you could go from, you know, from New York to Tokyo in — I don't know — 25 minutes.

Flying nearly 1,800 miles high above earth, the missile flew for over 35 minutes before crashing down into the sea, according to David Wright of the Union of Concerned Scientists.

That's nearly 20 times the speed of sound, and it allows Minuteman IIIs to strike a target within about 30 minutes from more than 6,000 miles away, accurate to within hundreds of feet.

In 2012, Uber Black cost riders $ 4.90 per mile or $ 1.25 per minute in San Francisco, according to an old version of Uber's website.

«You should be able to get from Westwood to LAX in 5 - 6 minutes,» Musk says of the approximate 10 - mile journey.

The trains are expected start operating in early 2019 with speeds of 250 kilometres (155 miles) an hour, and a fare of about $ 16 for a journey of about 40 minutes.

However, the missile flies for approximately nine minutes and 40 miles before it spins out of control, according to a U.S. Pacific Command statement.

The company claims the car has a range of over 400 miles on a full charge, with a quick charge (30 minutes) providing a range of about 186 miles.

In announcing the program, Bezos said the drones could deliver packages within a 10 mile radius of the company's fulfillment centers within 30 minutes.

Its payload soared about 2,800 miles into space before falling back to Earth, ultimately landing in the Sea of Japan some 53 minutes later and about 620 miles away from the launch pad.

For those drawn by the outdoors, St. George is exactly where you'd place it if you had the choice: a mere 10 miles from Snow Canyon State Park, 45 minutes from Zion National Park, and three hours from the north rim of the Grand Canyon.

To circle Earth from about 250 miles up, a spacecraft must reach a blistering speed of 17,500 mph, meaning it orbits the planet once every 90 minutes.

While rocketing 60 miles above Earth at three times the speed of sound, the lucky brothers Winklevii will glimpse a killer view of our planet while experiencing weightlessness for a few minutes.

Once it's about 80 miles up, it'll be within one orbit (about 90 minutes) of crashing.

«Everyone here talks a mile a minute,» he says, inserting a quick, rhythmic «da - da - da» imitation of conversation flow.

The company has one Connecticut service station, in Milford, and five super-charging stations that can provide up to 170 miles of range in as little as 30 minutes, though the charge rate depends on weather, demands on the utility grid, and other factors.

The authorities put out an all - points bulletin for the S.U.V., and officers in Watertown, 10 miles west of Boston, spotted it just minutes later.

Think of the beliefs of the past — the Earth is the center of the solar system, the world is flat, you can't break the sound barrier, you can't run the mile in under four minutes, and there's no need for a computer in the home.

So tell me my good fellow How someone is going to manage the equivalent of an 45 minute drive without a car or access to public transit (that would be about a 30 mile trip, so at least 10» ish hours walking for the average person or 3» ish hours on a bicycle if I recall base speeds correctly right)?

In order to get 400 miles in thirty minutes of charging, Ewbank notes, the charger would have to be 1.6 MW to achieve the 800kWh of promised charge in only 30 minutes.

It supports tokens representing fiat currency, cryptocurrency, commodity or any other unit of value such as frequent flier miles or mobile minutes.

Other claims, like charging stations that will give those trucks 400 miles of charge in 30 minutes, appear completely impossible.

The reusable rocket and capsule is designed to carry passengers to an altitude of more than 100 miles (62 km) above the planet so they can experience a few minutes of weightlessness and see the curvature of Earth set against the blackness of space.

We see this in sports, where Roger Bannister's comment about his world - record race (he was the first to run the mile in under four minutes) has often been repeated by other runners: «The world seemed to stand still, or did not exist... «17 And certainly this can be true of the play world of art, which, according to Gerardus Van der Leeuw, is a new «creation, a second world, with its own power.

On this run, I plan to alternate running five minutes and walking thirty seconds until I reach my goal of nine miles.

The Russians are more likely to be a few hundred miles off the coast, which should allow us about five minutes to leave our change of address at the Post Office and join the gridlock on Interstate 680.

Civic, commercial, residential and recreational buildings and uses are located within pedestrian proximity of one another — typically a five - to - ten - minute (one - quarter - to - one - half - mile) walk, This is the historic physical and anthropological measure of good urban culture.

We think of everyday life within the framework of minutes, hours, and days, and we measure it in standard spatial units such as feet, yards, miles, or kilometers.

I don't have a lot of time before the tinies come stumbling down the hall, hair sticking up like rooster tails and yawning while already talking a mile a minute.

If we now consider the number of the stars (15,000 x 106 visible to the optical telescope alone) you will understand how it is possible to say, cosmically speaking, that we are enveloped in a sort of monstrous gas formed of molecules as heavy as the Sun moving at distances from each other so great that they have to be reckoned in light - years (bearing in mind that light travels at a speed of 186,000 miles per second, and that we are only 8 light - minutes distant from the sun)-- a gas made of stars!

That volcano's eruption moved seven cubic miles of sand within minutes, and cut canyons in soft rock within years.

But within minutes we are mesmerized at the sight of gaggles of birds, large and small, elegant and comical, obeying the secret inner prompting that sets them to fly hundreds, even thousands of miles to serve the demands of life and survival.

Sitting on 15 acres of rolling parkland, with an adjacent golf course, The Westin Prince is just minutes from downtown Toronto and within five miles of more than two dozen major corporations including Kraft, Sunoco, IBM, McDonald's and SAP.

I'm fairly certain one independent store, our regionally famous Jungle Jim's, carries it, but an unfortunate mess of road construction surrounding that area on 3 sides has kept me from it for months (an impromptu trip to Hobby Lobby yesterday — Jungle Jim's next door neighbor — took me 25 minutes to travel the three miles from my door to theirs.

what sounds weird to me is waking up at 0630, checking the computer to find 106 messages, clicking immediately on theone from Smitten Kitchen, and at 0705 absolutely drooling over the idea of hitting the kitchen this minute and what time does the local co-op open and do they have the best dried chick peas or do I need to drive the 48 miles to the Hanover co-op to get the good ones.

Catering to both business and leisure travelers, the hotel is centrally located on the corner of Sunrise Boulevard and A1A, only 8 miles from Fort Lauderdale / Hollywood International Airport and just minutes from the Las Olas Arts & Entertainment District and Port Everglades.

I had a great run, the weather just made me feel amazing, I did my recovery run of 3.3 miles in 33 minutes, for a recovery run where I wasn't really pushing I was pleased with the pace.

I probably walked a total of 5 minutes, and ended up doing my 3 mile run in 36 minutes.

I get a lot of miles out of theTen Minute Tasty Asparagus and Brown Rice Recipe with the pan browned chick peas.

About 1/2 a mile from the start of Old Town, 10 minutes on foot.

January: 10 Visits to the YMCA; Recipe: Gluten - Free Olive - and - Feta Corn Muffins February: One vegan meal every day; Recipe: Pakistani Chickpea Pulao with Sweet - Hot Date - Onion Chutney March: Run 40 miles in 20 days; Recipe: Chocolate - Dipped Almond Butter Cookie Bites April: Walk 8,000 steps a day; Recipe: Herb - Flecked Spring Couscous May: 180 minutes of Nike Training Club; Recipe: Warm Arugula Salad with Maple Mustard Dressing June: Fresh fruit / veggies at every meal; Recipe: Chickpea Crepes with Grilled Curried Chicken and Mango Salsa

«Before I had a child, I would think all day about what I wanted to cook, read cookbooks, go to three different specialty markets in different boroughs and the farmer's market, and then go home and put on perfect, beautiful music and pour a glass of wine before I started chopping vegetables,» she recalls, speaking at a mile a minute.

BOATING — APACHE, owned by Wilfred Gmeiner, won 235 - mile Port Huron - to - Mackinac race with corrected time of 39:43:11, after Clarence Baker, skipper of LAST STRAW, gracefully pointed out committee error which had wrongly made Last Straw winner by three minutes.

Against the likes of Matic, Carrick, Schneiderlin and Fernandinho, the Arsenal star's stats come out very favourably, especially on the defensive side of things where his score of 20.56 per 90 minutes is miles ahead of the rest.

I'm delighted that the Bannister Mile will take place in my home town of Oxford, at the same place where I set my four minute mile».

An account of the day Roger Bannister broke the four minute mile: «There was ham salad for lunch, a shower of rain at 5.15 pm, a gusting wind, a false start, and then history... It is 60 years today since that iconic moment on the crunchy, uneven, gravel track at Iffley Road, Oxford... Bannister was 25, a medical student, and he was running in the annual Amateur Athletic Association v Oxford University Athletic Club match.»

The race is a 1 mile flat course and should be over in less than 1 minute 40 seconds but has nonetheless required a huge amount of training!

And few who scoffed had any real understanding of the endless physical toil needed to condition a man for a distance race, nor the physical agony implicit in a four - minute mile.