Sentences with phrase «of about a kilometre»

It then is carried by currents to the middle of the North Atlantic, where it swims down to a depth of about a kilometre.

Blue Marble, 1972 The original «Blue Marble» was taken on Dec. by the crew of the Apollo 17 spacecraft en route to the Moon at a distance of about kilometres mi).

Not exact matches

With a sturdy, adjustable - height tabletop and a range of 0.6 to 6.5 kilometres per hour, I would soon be typing and talking without worrying about the «sitting disease» epidemic that's killing North Americans.

He said the cause of the pipeline release about 10 kilometres northeast of Zama City is under investigation.

Statoil says it is evaluating a new discovery of high - quality oil about 500 kilometres northeast of St. John's, N.L..

At the Svartedalen retirement home in Gothenburg, about 460 kilometres southwest of Falun, managers report that the standard of care has improved since the trial reset the staff's work - life balance earlier this year.

It accelerates like a 911 (zero to 100 kilometres per hour in 4.4 seconds, top speed a limited 250 km / h) but sips fuel at an average of just 4.8 litres per 100 km (about the same as a Prius).

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.

About 130 kilometres to the north of the reserve, multinational miner Cliffs Natural Resources wants to develop a huge chromite mine to make a key ingredient in stainless steel.

Will Gibson, a spokesman for Syncrude, which has a plant about 35 kilometres north of town, was himself one of the evacuees heading north away from the flames.

The provincial government says a dozen cars carrying potash jumped the tracks about 10 kilometres west of Swift Current on Tuesday night.

Kinder Morgan's 1,000 - kilometre expansion project has become a national rallying cry for environmentalists, sparked protests from Indigenous communities, caused a trade war between two provinces and brought about the arrest of a federal party leader.

It is located about 120 kilometres north - east of Halls Creek, WA.

Of that, only about 750 square kilometres has been disturbed by mining to date.

That's clearly false — only a small area of the oil sands deposit — about 4,750 square kilometres, or 3 times the land area of Los Angeles — is mineable, with the remainder accessible only with in situ extraction or, in some cases, not recoverable at all with current technology.

RCMP say Mattheo Moore - Spence, Terrence Spence and Keethan Lobster, all between 11 and 13, were walking and riding bikes on Saturday night when they were hit on a road near Nelson House, about 850 kilometres north of Winnipeg.

But it was getting paired with mentor Sue Kuethe that proved to be the key to connecting a passion for renewables with a practical application in Peavine Settlement, about 60 kilometres north of High Prairie in Peace Country.

Liberal government pledges to reduce to $ 3 the fares for all GO Transit trips that are either less than 10 kilometres or are taken within the city of Toronto, and wants to being talks about the province taking ownership of the subway.

Highlights include 1.84 g / t gold, 0.85 g / t silver and 0.2 % copper over 71 metres (including 3.61 g / t gold, 1.54 g / t silver and 0.06 % copper over 36 metres) 0.93 g / t gold, 2.02 g / t silver and 0.08 % copper over 94 metres (including 1.58 g / t gold, 0.56 g / t silver and 0.01 % copper over 27 metres) 6.48 g / t gold, 2.05 g / t silver and 0.06 % copper over 13 metres 2.09 g / t gold, 0.66 g / t silver and 0.18 % copper over 27 metres Cerro Quema is located about 45 kilometres from the city of Chitre and about 190 kilometres from Panama City.

Lexington's rehab coincides with that of the Greenwood plant, about 17 kilometres away.

Depart the pier for the scenic, approximately 1.5 - hour drive to Punta Ninfas, located approximately 45 miles (about 73 kilometres) southwest of Puerto Madryn.

He said: «Along that two and a half hour drive there were people lined up the whole way except for about 10 kilometres - otherwise it was people sitting on the side of the road, sometimes with large, vast numbers of people sitting there.

The outbreak was detected in late October at the Langfield Pastoral Company, about 27 kilometres north - east of Young in south - west NSW.

By Louise FitzRoy At Mulloon Creek Natural Farms, about 50 kilometres east of Canberra, the hens are roaming freely on green biodynamic pastures and the cattle are being trained to eat weeds.

According to confidential marketing documents viewed by The Australian Financial Review, the assets to be acquired include two farms near Coominya about 60 kilometres northwest of Brisbane, Queensland, which produce about 3 million birds a year with contracts secured to Baiada until 2020.

It was built in 1910 about 18 kilometres north of Cochrane, Alberta, by Mr. and Mrs. James Andison...

The Kadavu Group, Fiji's fourth - largest island lies about 100 kilometres south of Viti Levu.

About 83 square kilometres of wrapping paper will be chucked out or burned in the UK at Christmas time, which is enough to gift wrap the island of Jersey.

The fresh round of violence is said to have erupted between farmers and herders, leaving many other people injured in Kajuru which is about 50 kilometres from Kaduna, the state capital.

Grasslands mixed with south coastal shrublands and forests dominate Ghana, with forest extending northward from the south - west coast of Ghana on the Gulf of Guinea in the Atlantic Ocean 320 kilometres (200 miles) and eastward for a maximum of about 270 kilometres (170 miles) with the Kingdom of Ashanti or the southern part of Ghana being a primary location for mining of industrial minerals and timber.

The plane went down at N'sele, about 100 kilometres (60 miles) east of Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the source said.

Earlier I quoted from Michael Gove's statement about why he was in favour of leaving the EU, and his claim that EU rules dictate «the distance houses have to be from heathland to prevent cats chasing birds (five kilometres) ``.

According to News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, details of the project indicate the development of a sugar cane plantation of about 16,000 hectares or 160 kilometre square, longer than Lagos to Ibadan expressway which is estimated between 120 kilometres and 130 kilometers — more than 30 kilometres shorter than the proposed sugar plantation.

Some people mistakenly think this is what Liechtenstein - a tiny 25 kilometre long microstate with a population of 37,000 - uses to block free movement, but in actual fact they have a separate treaty provision which they negotiated at the time of their ascension to the EEA and which is anyway mostly about refugees.

Covering about 70,000 square kilometres, the Niger Delta region is home to one of the largest wetlands in the world and Africa's largest delta.

There has also been «microscopic» progress in efforts to get ten per cent of new cars emitting under 100g per kilometre by 2012 - this would be the equivalent of about 250,000 cars, but in 2004 just 481 cars fit into this category.

He explained that the N1bn listed in the 2017 budget was for the bridge and the construction of the road which is about 28 kilometres from Osogbo to Ilajue, which is the boundary with Oyo State.

And being a pastor at the Charismatic Renewal Ministry, the choice of the church to host the union fell on the branch of the ministry at Daudu, about 20 kilometres from Makurdi, the capital of Benue State.

JESUSEGUN ALAGBE reports about Ife - Odan, a community in Ejigbo Local Government Area of Osun State, where a number of pregnant women have lost their lives while travelling several kilometres on motorcycles to access medical care and give birth to their babies Around 11 am on one windy day in February in Ife - Odan, Osun State, Olusola Adeniran -LSB-...]

The UAV was on intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) mission when it came across the gathering of BHTs at Garin Moloma, about one kilometre north of the Sambisa Forest.

«This morning, the Assembly man in Diaso electoral area reported at the station that around 6.15, he had a message that a male adult aged about 46, had been found dead at the outskirts of Modaso, another village about 6 kilometres from Diaso so the Police went to the place.

Dust appears to lie in a belt that extends a few hundred million kilometres from Proxima Centauri and has a total mass of about one hundredth of the Earth's mass.

That fits with analysis of sea - floor sediments, which suggests that a dead zone of around 600 square kilometres formed here about 40,000 years ago.

About 30 kilometres west of Zurich, the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) makes up the third in the suite of three government - funded research centres.

«The simulations showed that the only way to account for the proven increase in volcanic activity was that the level (and thus the weight) of the Mediterranean Sea dropped by about two kilometres,» explains Sternai, before adding: «I leave it to you to imagine what the landscape looked like.»

Now Martin Jutzi and Erik Asphaug at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have simulated the effect of an impact between the moon and a smaller sibling 1300 kilometres across, about one - third as wide (Nature, DOI: 10.1038 / nature10289).

Estimated changes in the mass of Greenland's ice sheet suggest it is melting at a rate of about 239 cubic kilometres (57.3 cubic miles) per year.

About 100,000 cubic kilometres of material had to be removed to form the scar, which is five times the width and depth of the Grand Canyon.

US farmers grow about 700,000 square kilometres of GM crops; Europe maintains something close to prohibition.

Hussein is the resident bird guide at the Azraq Wetland Reserve, a tiny oasis in the Jordanian desert about 100 kilometres east of the capital Amman.