Sentences with phrase «of a few miles before»

It is only a matter of a few miles before the car will loose all braking.

Not exact matches

Just a few miles south of my home, charcoal from local chestnut fired the historic iron forge Catoctin Furnace, a major source of nineteenth - century pig iron for a young nation's Industrial Revolution — and before that, for eighteenth - century cannonballs for our founding political revolution.

I've even considered waking up before the baby to get in a few miles of walking each morning.

when I signed up, it was billed as a «5k» (with obstacles and such), a few weeks before the race they were calling it «about 5k», the week of the race they were saying «3 to 5 miles».

A year after she leaves Tennessee and a few months before she joins the Philadelphia Rage of the ABL, Michelle meets a 15 - year - old girl named Amanda Spengler, who plays basketball at a high school a few miles from Allentown, where Michelle grew up.

For this «car anology» you must remember that the driver (Wenger) may be telling the owner (Silent Stan via Gazidis) but the owner thinks «Hmmm, I can get a few more miles out of this before the performance drop is noticed» and the driver has to deal with it the best he can.

In the light of all this Ollen suddenly seemed like an extremely attractive commodity, and a few days before the big meet in Boston Garden, he received a belated invitation to compete in the mile — provided he was willing to run the first quarter in something like 57 seconds and the half in two minutes flat.

Just a few hours before his first match in the $ 25,000 World Series of Squash, a tournament he won last month at the Yale Club in New York City, Michael Desaulniers stood on the floor of the commodities exchange in the World Trade Center 3 1/2 miles away and proclaimed, «I love this place.

Lee has led the charge in putting the word out to fellow supporters as well as those of other clubs and it's not uncommon for away fans and home fans to meet a few miles from the ground before marching to the finish line together.

I had been following the on - again, off - again, on - again divorce of Sean Penn and Robin Wright for a while, not because I'm celeb crazed but because before Penn took off for Haiti and Wright to L.A., they lived just a few miles from me.

You and I have seen a lot of miles together in the nine years since this site launched, and we'll have few more to cover before we can rest under yonder shade tree again.

But before the water gets more than a few miles off the mountain, much of this stream is diverted into dirt ditches used by ranchers along the Ohio Creek Valley.

This observation was made just a few days before Mars opposition on May 22, when the sun and Mars will be on exact opposite sides of Earth, and when Mars will be at a distance of 47.4 million miles from Earth.

«The risk of reactors cracking open in a crash could be reduced by jettisoning them before impact and bringing them down with parachutes,» he told the Times of London, adding that, in the worst - case scenario, if the armor plating around the reactor was pierced «there would be a risk of radioactive contamination over a few square miles.»

The first time you launch Celestia, it deposits you a few thousand miles outside Earth's atmosphere, with the continents and cloud formations of the blue planet spread out before you.

After having a stent put in a few years ago, I began an exercise program that consists of nothing more than walking 4 miles on a treadmill before breakfast and two or three miles during the day.

I drove my first - generation Mazda Miata for about 850 miles the three days immediately preceding my time in the SLK250 and also spent some time behind the wheel of an SLK55 AMG on a closed course a few days before that.

A few miles later, the guy in front of me slowed abruptly for a turn, allowing me to show off with a very professional sounding five - to - three - to - two downshift before nailing the throttle.

Parked up in our usual spot near the top of the Triangle mid-morning, it feels like an age since those first few miles the day before, and in some ways I don't feel any closer to choosing between the two cars.

I suffered through a few miles of lagging throttle response and generally disappointing dynamics before I realized the car needs to be switched into «Dynamic» mode to be truly enjoyed.

Since progress has been faster than expected, we decide to continue on to Strasbourg, just over the French border, and with the trusty TomTom counting down the miles it isn't too long before we're sat in the bar of the Holiday Inn, enjoying a few Peronis and reflecting on the day's events.

Just a few months before the American version of the Prius was introduced in summer 2000, however, Honda brought us the little, two - seat Insight hybrid, which gets up to 70 miles per gallon.

Both cars are among the rarified few (Lamborghini's Huracán supercar among them) capable of accelerating past that speed — and braking before running out of road — on the 1.6 - mile straightaway where we conduct acceleration and braking evaluations.

That's about 4 miles below the budgeted range — possibly due to a few stoplight zero - to - 60 test runs I did just before testing — but balances out with the 3 - mile surplus of the previous trip to land me pretty spot - on with Kia's estimate.

CR said that with the fix, the car braked from 60 miles per hour to rest in 19 fewer feet than before — putting it on par with Tesla's own estimation of a 133 - foot stopping distance, a distance that CR said is «typical for a compact luxury car.»

By going the extra mile, thinking creatively and embracing the opportunity to work with volunteers, innovators like Middleton all over the US began reaching for goals they had not dreamed of just a few short years before.

A few miles south is the Vanderbilt Mansion, a Beaux - Arts era relic in a whopping 211 acres, with the walls still whispering of the luxury of the Gilded Age; «the time before income taxes came in,» our guide explained wistfully.

On the negative side of things the fee increases are brutal, the drop in mileage earnings for semi-flexible Economy Class fares seems a little harsh and the cheapest Premium Economy Class fares will now earn 10 % fewer miles than before.

We've made a few changes to our Economy cabin, but if you booked your ticket before the 17 March 2018, your membership benefits * and the number of miles you'll earn won't change for that trip.

If you pay for Business or First Class flights then you can still rack up a lot of miles from flying but those of us flying at the back are seeing a far lower rate of return than ever before — Delta and United (and soon American) base the number of miles they award travelers on the cost of the ticket purchased (less taxes) so the cheaper ticket you by the fewer miles you'll earn.

However, if you for some reason like Delta, enjoy earning fewer miles than ever before, and enjoy giving your money to a company that is in the industry of telling passengers that they don't care about them, then this promotion is probably for you!

With the American Airlines devaluations due to kick in a few months into next year I've been looking around for some good used of my AAdvantage miles before they're suddenly worth a lot less.

Before choosing a gasoline credit card over another type of reward credit card, such as one that offers cash back or miles, you need to consider a few things.

These are just a few examples of the different types of random policies that you might come across when looking to book partner awards and why it's a good idea to have a thorough understanding of the programs's policies before transferring miles to them.

The problem Cathay Pacific is experiencing is high demand for its first class award seats from those with AAdvantage miles, with these seats often booked soon after the award calendar opens, leaving no award availability for its own Asia Miles frequent flyer members who may seek to book just a few months before the date of departure.

Under both of these programs, travelers with discounted tickets and / or without elite status earn fewer miles than before.

Klaus Jacob, an earth scientist at Columbia University's Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory who pretty precisely projected the flooding a big hurricane surge could cause in New York City long before Hurricane Sandy hit, reflects in this video on the impacts on the region — including on his own storm - flooded home in Piermont, N.Y., a tiny town along the Hudson River a few miles north of the George Washington Bridge.

High voltage transmission lines are both expensive and environmentally destructive; You «Greenies» used to protest even a few miles of them before GE and their fellow Marxists decided they are now really very cool.

As such, it sets the gold standard for the segment because few other plug - in hybrids come close to offering 50 - plus miles of efficient all - electric driving before the gas engine comes on.

For example, the weekend before negotiations began, Neste Oil announced plans to build the world's largest bio-diesel facility a few hundred miles northeast of Bali, in the Tuas industrial zone on the island of Singapore.

On Tesla's video stream yesterday we could see a car being recharged, and the driving range went up before our eyes, adding a mile of charge every few seconds.

Tesla says its autopilot system navigated 130 million miles of road before its first fatal accident, which is fewer deaths per mile than traditional cars.

As a man much younger than I, in addition to winning the hair club for men contest, he will probably trek the Pyrenees, reclining on a rock with only a 1/4 - inch foam pad, catching a few hours» sleep before gnawing on a rye crisp, gulping from a stream and hitting the 460 - mile Camino de Santiago with a pocket full of trail mix.