Sentences with phrase «of miles across»

I mean, really, I would NEVER (before reading this) consider moving a ramshackle, old «shed» hundreds of miles across the country to refinish it.

There are several companies whose coverage will extend to a specified amount of miles across the border.

Such a huge amount of packages requires a lot of shipping power and, by extension, a lot of large trucks with large loads logging huge numbers of miles across the nation each day.

6 Measuring Carbon Dioxide in the Atmosphere The winds that blow steadily over Mauna Loa have come thousands of miles across the Pacific Ocean, far from most forests and human activities, swirling and mixing as they traveled.

The warm expanse has been characterized by sea surface temperatures as much as three degrees C (about 5.4 degrees F) higher than average, lasting for months, and appears on large - scale temperature maps as a red - orange mass of warm water many hundreds of miles across.

They can expand to systems hundreds of miles across with high precipitation and strong winds.

Over thousands of years, the layers of snow build up, forming a flowing sheet of ice thousands of feet thick and tens to thousands of miles across.

The Lake Missoula floods moved large volumes of ice, hundreds of miles across a downgrade of only 2 or 3 %.

With a smattering of miles across five different airline accounts, I didn't even know where to begin in finding an itinerary that would ultimately deliver me from Peru to Australia / New Zealand.

Millions of dogs and cats are stolen each year, including pets, and driven thousands of miles across China to be bludgeoned to death in front of each other.

In a soft, gentle voice, 80 - year old Pennsylvania native Ena Belden spoke of a war - torn world thousands of miles across the ocean and of a time almost 60 years past.

The film's title is a reference to wildebeests, those massive, horned, antelope - like creatures known for migrating thousands of miles across African plains to reach grazing grounds.

His book, along with a range of other accounts, chronicle the escape of a small band of multi-national prisoners from a Siberian gulag in 1940, and their epic journey over thousands of miles across five hostile countries.

It's not open - world like, say, Just Cause 2, where you can hop into a car and drive dozens of miles across open terrain.

We looked at old images of Ganymede taken by the Voyager spacecraft in the 1970s that had been completely overlooked, an enormous ice plateau, hundreds of miles across and a couple miles high.»

The two cryovolcano candidates are large features measuring tens of miles across and several miles high.

Nor is it a particularly small region, measuring millions of miles across.

Researchers want to determine what levels of air pollution may be found there after traveling thousands of miles across the Pacific Ocean.

The twisting, swirling streaks of bright soil stretch, in some cases, for thousands of miles across the lunar surface.

Instead of the relatively stable environment that was expected at the brink of interstellar space, the Voyagers have encountered what some scientists have described as a «magnetic jacuzzi,» a region where the sun's magnetic field appears to be ripping apart and reconnecting, forming bubbles millions of miles across.

Violent solar flares trigger vast acoustic ripples that spread out for tens of thousands of miles across the surface of the sun.

This busier travel schedule would surely affect teams adversely when travelling thousands of miles across the country.

The likelihood that one of these space rocks poses a real threat to human lives may be low — researchers at Prince - ton University have placed 1 - in - 5,000 odds on an asteroid two - thirds of a mile across smacking into Earth sometime in the next century (for comparison, the risk that you will be struck by lightning in your lifetime is about 1 in 3,000)-- but the stakes are high.

Not exact matches

Hubble was about 400 - 500 million miles away from Jupiter at the time, and it was taking pictures of Europa's backlit silhouette as it moved across the gas giant's surface:

That's greatly reduced the need for rolling cold calls, during which the rugged vehicles lumber across states at top speeds of 52 miles an hour.

As it is now, most of the major trucking and logistics firms in this final - mile bulky goods business hire regional contract - carriers and there are hundreds nationwide to haul products from warehouses to living rooms across the country.

In June, Shanghai opened the country's first intelligent vehicle pilot zone, where its trialed about 200 vehicles across nine miles (15 kilometers) of test roads in a closed zone at Shanghai's international automobile city, the government said in a statement.

Justin Sonnekalb, a technical designer at Irrational Games who is working on this project, says the game play experience will allow users to walk or drive the Mars Rover prototype across several square miles of actual Martian terrain while pursuing research - oriented mission goals.

For one thing, the company is strategically located within two miles of both I - 465, the city's beltway, and I - 70, which runs across the country.

Thirty - five years ago it was a fishing village, but today its miles of subtropical sprawl sprout skyscrapers and huge malls across the border from Hong Kong.

The Richmond District Office, one of 72 such offices, is responsible for administering the array of SBA programs across Virginia, save the area closest to D.C. — 92 counties and 36 cities over 38,630 square miles.

Why it's hot: One square mile of boutiques and condos, Hoboken is just across the Hudson River from New York City and boasts a 2,221 member - strong N.J. Tech Meetup that gets together monthly.

«From above, you see the Sacred Valley stretching out for miles on either side of you, and across you see more of the amazing Andes mountains,» says Scott Carr of Tulsa, Okla., who visited in October 2017 with his fiancée, her daughter and a small group of friends.

In May 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama announced new fuel economy standards intended to compel manufacturers to achieve an average of 35.5 miles per gallon across their car and light truck models by 2016.

Below, you can see the rigorous training and harsh conditions encountered by US servicemembers scattered across a 1,100 - mile swath of frigid Alaskan wilderness:

Prior to that conversation, the only type of «nomad» that I was aware of was the kind that goes on a 2,000 - mile journey across the Himalayas to fulfill a spiritual pilgrimage.

The program works by exploiting «clouds,» which are massive data centers across continents that are connected by thousands of miles of fiber - optic cable that are used by the Silicon Valley giants to function with minimal data loss and system slowdowns.

The 320 miles of hiking, running, swimming, biking, canoeing, and rappelling, through jungle and across sea, had its share of broadcast highlights.

The strong Santa Ana winds — reaching near hurricane force — have helped the fire spread across over 60,000 acres, mostly in Ventura County, which is about 70 miles outside of LA.

Dedicated fans of the sport sometimes run more than 100 miles across some of the world's toughest terrain over multiple days.

WINNIPEG, Manitoba / VANCOUVER, April 23 (Reuters)- At an Alberta oil loading terminal, a convoy of big rigs are gearing up to haul Canadian crude oil hundreds of miles through bone dry fields across the U.S. border into Montana, where the oil will be transferred to pipelines and rail cars headed south and west.

Google already has a fleet of 48 robot cars that have clocked in more than 2 million miles on private tracks, highways and roads across the U.S.

Flying across country puts more than two tons of CO2 into the atmosphere — like driving 7,500 miles.

That acquisition may drive the price up for the Register and speed up what now seems like an inevitable single - company consolidation of newspaper ownership across a geography stretching for 200 miles from north to south.

That's what over an over 5000 mile round trip across the U.S will do to you, plus a lot of driving around while I was at home.

While American politicians debate endlessly over how to finance the needed fixes and which ones to implement, the Chinese have managed to fund massive infrastructure projects all across their country, including 12,000 miles of high - speed rail built just in the last decade.

The fiercest hurricane to hit the U.S. in more than a decade spun across hundreds of miles of coastline where communities had prepared for life - threatening storm surges — walls of water rushing inland.

With other rewards programs such as Delta, American and United, major international carriers, the value of a mile can fluctuate drastically across the world, and can be very low for domestic flights.

The powerful storm ripped roofs off houses, collapsed buildings and flooded hundreds of miles of coastline after cutting a trail of destruction across the Caribbean.

Mission requirements change, people come and go, homes move across oceans, and in most cases family and support systems are located hundreds if not thousands of miles away.