Sentences with phrase «much as a mile»

The Wolfcamp, which is as much as a mile (1.6 kilometers) thick in some places, has been one of the primary targets of shale drillers.

A tornado can have a wind speed as high as 250 miles per hour, can span an area as much as a mile across, and can stay on the ground for up to 50 miles.

Not exact matches

Estimates range from as low as $ 8 billion to as much as $ 67 billion or more, depending on whom you ask and the number of miles of wall that get built.

Amazon isn't so much interested in taking over what's called the «last mile» of the delivery trek as it is in making the process more efficient for the company and public entities that aid in delivery.

If you simply save these rewards up, and cash them out once you want to book a vacation, you can think of a reward program like this as being equivalent to one based on points or miles, except you are given much more freedom.

Remember that value is separate from overall price, though — if you're just trying to trim costs as much as possible and not necessarily maximize every mile, you may be better off opting for coach, even when it offers less - than - excellent value.

As much as this shift might decrease the number of total cars in use, it would increase the miles driven for each vehicle, which would lead to more wear and tear and quicker turnoveAs much as this shift might decrease the number of total cars in use, it would increase the miles driven for each vehicle, which would lead to more wear and tear and quicker turnoveas this shift might decrease the number of total cars in use, it would increase the miles driven for each vehicle, which would lead to more wear and tear and quicker turnover.

Whenever someone like the Fort Hood shooter commits an act of terror we are lectured on not jumping to conclusions, and not profiling, blah, blah, blah... But when someone who does such an act so much as passes within a thousand miles of a Christian, then the media labels him as a murderer and condemns Christianity as a whole.

Yeah religion makes much sense as driving a Bugatti Veyron.253 miles per hour.forward and backwards at the same time you want get any where with twice dead works man in the rut religion religious falsehood

As the restaurant critic for LA Weekly, there are three things I know for certain: (1) L.A. is arguably the most interesting place to eat in America right now; (2) much of our most remarkable dining happens in places that are hard to infiltrate and understand — even for those of us who live here; and (3) this is particularly true of the San Gabriel Valley (the SGV), the 284 - mile swath of land that lies to the east of the city and holds the most thrilling international eating in America.

AKB's just never run out of excuses, it isn't «bad luck» when we are first on the injury ladder (by a country mile as well) EVERY SEASON, the last time i remember having a reasonable injury list was before diaby was injury prone, so whether it's down to his tactics, players diets or imcompetent staff, a 2.5 star manager wouldn't have taken more than 2 - 3 seasons to fix these problems, players join our club with amazingly good injury records (ozil) and become injry prone, players leave our club (fabregas) and are fit 2x as much as they were for us, SOMETHING IS WRONG AT ARSENAL

Maitland miles would give much more in a central role en Reis Nelsson has to be used as a winger.

In addition, if neither Cazorla nor Ramsey improve their game by a mile, i reckon Ox (for ramsey) or Sanchez (for Cazorla) should take their place on the team and put Poldi on the left winger (or even Campbell on the right) They do nt even have to be bad, this could even be nothing more than a proposition on how to rotate the squad in the way of avoiding injuries on players, as well as giving frustrated benchwarmers some much appreciated time on the pitch.

How much longer do we have to put up with Wenger I for one am tired of seeing Arsenal hang on to someone who has passed his prime we are 6th for crying out loud we haven't challenged for the title in a very long time we are miles behind the big teams which is why the Southhamptons, West Hams of this world are on the same level as us come on now enough is enough

Maybe Peru, Ecuador and Iceland have the right idea in unilaterally extending their self - proclaimed private fishing rights to as much as 200 miles off their coasts.

My point here is that in as much as Chelsea are being hailed as having had a super season and their team rated as being miles ahead of other teams, their success was also down to having the same first 11 for very long periods in the season.

With little more than a quarter mile remaining in the $ 82,575 Remsen stakes last Saturday, a 2 - year - old named Royal Ski was in about as much trouble as a horse can get himself into without actually falling down.

Pace has skyrocketed recently (meaning a lot more miles traveled per minute, leading to more total distance per minute and also higher average speed so less time resting those legs at slow speed) and also defenses now have to be everywhere (before defense wasn't as tiring as it's now because every player didn't need to cover as much ground as they do now).

as much as i detest fergi, he is miles ahead of wenger as a successful manager... i mean comparing 13 epl titles to 3 titles, not even counting the 2 uefa champions league win

He is every bit as much as responsible as is Pochettino for the fact Spurs have left us miles behind, in points, talent, ambition, artistry, desire, fitness, hope, expectation and enjoyment.

As much as Emre is our best midfielder by a mile at the moment, he wasn't even slightly missed during the demolition job in PortAs much as Emre is our best midfielder by a mile at the moment, he wasn't even slightly missed during the demolition job in Portas Emre is our best midfielder by a mile at the moment, he wasn't even slightly missed during the demolition job in Porto.

Brentford's 1 - 1 draw with Fulham was celebrated just as much 120 miles up to M40 as it confirmed Wolverhampton Wanderers return to the Premier League after a six - year absence.

A conventional lawn mower pollutes as much in an hour as 40 late model cars (or as much as as much air pollution as driving a car for 100 miles).

Yet, I admit, going alone with kids is not as much fun and it's an easier drive getting home from a park, than the Dallas Arboretum (which is about a 30 mile trip for us).

The most important thing is that there is plenty of padding, as the last think you want is for your shoulders to hurt too much or for your baby to be uncomfortable when you're halfway up a hillside or several miles from any resting place.

An awkward gift might be from someone you're not as close with, but still go the extra mile to make them feel appreciated, even if you have to fudge the truth about how much you love their totally bizarre gift.

They're the simplest to use by a country mile, since they're designed to be as much like a disposable as you can get while still being washable.

Just imagine trying to jog, much less run, if your boobies are bouncing painfully around as you jog your mile - and - a-half.

Like the 12 mile limit, 100 km was also much higher than surface to air missiles of that day could operate, so this was a practical limit as well.

In all of four days, we put more than 500 miles on the car... many of them as much vertical as horizontal, as you'll see in photos like this one.

It has had its share of HABs, including a severe one in 2016 that produced toxins and covered as much as 30 miles of the river with bright green algae for 60 days.

Waste and the feather - bedding union rules that drive up the cost of new construction to as much as $ 3.5 billion per track mile don't leave enough money for basic maintenance and services.

Silver didn't knock down the suspicion that he was about making as much money as possible a few years ago when he began defending his bizarre practice of flying on the state's dime from New York City to Albany via Washington, DC, or some other distant spot so he could pick up a few extra frequent flier miles for his personal use.

DeWitt Clinton managed to dig a 500 - mile ditch through near - wilderness without so much as a steam shovel, and transformed the economy of a continent.

The extinction at the end of the Permian is thought to have been caused by volcanic eruptions in Siberia over hundreds of thousands if not a million years that produced what are known today as the Siberian Traps: lava fields covering much of northern Russia and originally encompassing nearly 3 million square miles with an average thickness of about 1,000 feet.

The researchers said it's important to note that even though the sites in the study are as much as 75 miles apart, the depth of the terraces lined up at each site.

A 386,000 - square - mile tract of permafrost in Siberia contains as much as 55 billion tons of potential methane, Walter says — 10 times the amount currently in the atmosphere.

Instead he proposes a lightweight aircraft with high thermodynamic efficiency and extreme drag reduction — not so much a flying car as a powered glider that cruises at about 100 miles an hour and gets at least 100 miles per gallon.

Its dark surface (Ceres reflects just one - fourth as much light as Vesta) indicates a water - rich interior; some researchers even speculate that it could have a mile - deep ocean under a frozen surface.

Astronomers believe large moonlets up to at least a half - mile in size may hide among the rings, which themselves are only about 30 feet thick; the taller vertical structures visible here could be ring material that «splashes» up when the fine particles of the rings collide with these moonlets, much as water at the sea's edge can splash up and over a rock.

Without taking special and general relativity into account, a GPS - determined location veers off - course by as much as 6.2 miles a day.

Powered by a 3.0 - liter V - 6 engine, the E320, for instance, gets 36 miles per gallon (combined) and can travel as much as 780 miles between fill - ups.

(A separate group at the University of Texas published figures extrapolated from GRACE data showing that Greenland lost as much as 57 cubic miles of ice each year between 2002 and 2005; NASA shortly plans to publish data reconciling the two studies.)

Some have as much energy as a tennis ball served up at 90 miles per hour.

The report adds that every square mile of ocean is home to nearly 50,000 pieces of litter, much of which tends to harm or kill wildlife that either ingests the plastic or gets trapped in discarded netting, which is just as common in the Northern Gyre as discarded soda bottles.

Velicogna and her colleagues also measured a dramatic loss of Greenland ice, as much as 38 cubic miles per year between 2002 and 2005 — even more troubling, given that an influx of fresh melt water into the salty North Atlantic could in theory shut off the system of ocean currents that keep Europe relatively warm.

The Canyons MCZ is particularly challenging to survey as much of the site occurs within a deep - sea canyon over a mile deep.

Although these bipolar outflows were moving much more slowly than the HH objects — about 10 miles per second — they were 10 times as massive as the jets, with a volume many times larger.

White as bone, they live as much as three miles down where no light penetrates, feeding off dead marine matter that sinks from above.

«But we do know that the disease is spreading by as much as 19 miles a year in Panama.»