Sentences with phrase «near large bodies of water»

3 is wrong for cities that are windy or near large bodies of water.

This can aggravate flooding concerns in regions near large bodies of water.

This exhibition is coordinated to appear near large bodies of water.

An older gentleman that grew up during the time of Herman Munster, Bewitched, the Lone Ranger, and Zorro, having old world values, charm & respect for others, with a pocket full of grit, very humorous, can be spontaneous at times, enjoys being near large bodies of water.

For this reason nuclear power plants are typically sited near large bodies of water, often seas or estuaries.

Stand near a large body of water — you can see the curvature of the earth.

Not exact matches

Sionix, an Anaheim, Calif. — based corporation, which manufactures a treatment system that uses microscopic air bubbles to clean water, is testing whether its technology can also reduce levels of metal, namely iron and manganese (both toxic to the body in large amounts) in Santiago Creek near Villa Park Dam in Orange County, Calif..

What makes this perfect for a large group that has set - up camp near a body of water is that it can clean four liters of water in just over two minutes.

Proteus Gowanus's theme for this coming year is water, which is fitting, given the location of the space — right near the Gowanus Canal, one of the most polluted bodies of water in the country — as well as its larger home, New York, a city dealing with the effects of water in the globally warmed 21st century.

There's been open water at the pole before» During the summer of 2000 there was «a large body of ice - free water about 10 miles long and 3 miles wide near the pole» http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F00E3DD1E31F93AA1575BC0A9669C8B63

Lately, I also had this idea that most warming was occurring near of large bodies of water.

With possible exceptions for locations that are dominated by significant, more - or-less thermally stable, bodies of liquid or solid water; primarily near the oceans but including also other large bodies of liquid or solid water.

Dr. Serreze said an examination of satellite images from July 15 showed what looked like a large body of ice - free water about 10 miles long and 3 miles wide near the pole.

It went something like this: hotel check - in, locate room, locate wifi service, attempt connection to wifi, wonder why the connection is taking so long, try again, locate phone, call front desk, get told «the internet is broken for a while», decide to hot - spot the mobile phone because some emails really needed to be sent, go «la la la» about the roaming costs, locate iron, wonder why iron temperature dial just spins around and around, swear as iron spews water instead of steam, find reading glasses, curse middle - aged need for reading glasses, realise iron temperature dial is indecipherably in Chinese, decide ironing front of shirt is good enough when wearing jacket, order room service lunch, start shower, realise can't read impossible small toiletry bottle labels, damply retrieve glasses from near iron and successfully avoid shampooing hair with body lotion, change (into slightly damp shirt), retrieve glasses from shower, start teleconference, eat lunch, remember to mute phone, meet colleague in lobby at 1 pm, continue teleconference, get in taxi, endure 75 stop - start minutes to a inconveniently located client, watch unread emails climb over 150, continue to ignore roaming costs, regret tuna panini lunch choice as taxi warmth, stop - start juddering, jet - lag, guilt about unread emails and traffic fumes combine in a very unpleasant way, stumble out of over-warm taxi and almost catch hypothermia while trying to locate a very small client office in a very large anonymous business park, almost hug client with relief when they appear to escort us the last 50 metres, surprisingly have very positive client meeting (i.e. didn't throw up in the meeting), almost catch hypothermia again waiting for taxi which despite having two functioning GPS devices can't locate us on a main road, understand why as within 30 seconds we are almost rendered unconscious by the in - car exhaust fumes, discover that the taxi ride back to the CBD is even slower and more juddering at peak hour (and no, that was not a carbon monoxide induced hallucination), rescheduled the second client from 5 pm to 5.30, to 6 pm and finally 6.30 pm, killed time by drafting this guest blog (possibly carbon monoxide induced), watch unread emails climb higher, exit taxi and inhale relatively fresher air from kamikaze motor scooters, enter office and grumpily work with client until 9 pm, decline client's gracious offer of expensive dinner, noting it is already midnight my time, observe client fail to correctly set office alarm and endure high decibel «warning, warning» sounds that are clearly designed to send security rushing... soon... any second now... develop new form of nausea and headache from piercing, screeching, sounds - like - a-wailing-baby-please-please-make-it-stop-alarm, note the client is relishing the extra (free) time with us and is still talking about work, admire the client's ability to focus under extreme aural pressure, decide the client may be a little too work focussed, realise that I probably am too given I have just finished work at 9 pm... but then remember the 200 unread emails in my inbox and decide I can resolve that incongruency later (in a quieter space), become sure that there are only two possibilities — there are no security staff or they are deaf — while my colleague frantically tries to call someone who knows what to do, conclude after three calls that no - one does, and then finally someone finally does and... it stops.