Sentences with phrase «over a hundred miles»

Ms Kirkbride faced a concerted media campaign after it was revealed her brother lived rent free at her constituency home while her sister conducted secretarial work for her, despite living over a hundred miles from her constituency.

I live just over a hundred miles from the closest Wegman's store.

A hike to circumnavigate some of the 1000 - foot - deep water gap — there's over a hundred miles of trail — will also throw up some unforgettable views too.

Big moments and traditional satisfactions are eschewed (e.g., the first film counts down the distance to Havana only to abruptly end over a hundred miles short of the destination) in favor of detailing everyday, almost mundane, existence for those in the trenches fighting the power.

We've both gone over a hundred miles an hour in this one with Dad.»

In it, Spud Hilton takes us to Guanajuato, a small city that is not well known, yet is only a little over a hundred miles from Mexico's major cities, Guadalajara and Mexico City.

We know he's fast but having the background zoom past us at over a hundred miles per hour and watching Sonic jogging just won't cut it.

Not exact matches

High - altitude winds can make it sprinkle over hundreds of square miles, though it's most intense near the blast site.

Milestone: «We will continue to build out the Roadie community to make same - day delivery over hundreds of miles a reality.

During hundreds of flights and millions of miles over a long and heavily traveled career, the flight home to California had always felt exactly like that, like I was going home.

The team has yet to decide a final route, but they are looking at areas where many people fly over short distances or drive several hundred miles to their destination.

over & over again, the name usage matches the region and decade, while just a couple of hundred miles away or a decade later, the name charts change.

People came from all over and walked a hundred miles or more to find healing, and the Bible tells us that each and every one was healed — to the point that healing from physical infirmities became rare.

McDougall describes how the Tarahumara, who can run over one hundred miles with little effort, consider Chia seeds one of the two most important staples of their diet.

People connect across hundreds of miles through a web of relations and friendships woven over generations, and an event like the one at Tie Siding sends shock waves throughout the state.

Never had an accident in more than 25 years and hundreds of thousands of miles driven, got one ticket for passing back when she was 16, but has never been pulled over even since (learned her lesson, although to be fair, the place she got a ticket was deceptive).

Travelers from all over the country hop into their cars and drive hundreds of miles to see this happening each year.

Her strategy of logging hundreds of miles in her Ford pickup through the largely rural district in upstate New York has also won over many who viewed her as an outsider during her first campaign — even some of her biggest detractors.

There are well over 20 school districts in the North Country, spread hundreds of miles apart, that are in need of substitutes teachers: certified and uncertified.

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.

Even if we fail to find the miracles that allow us to make and then transport hundreds of gigawatts of power over 3,000 miles at pennies per kilowatt - hour, and even if we can never find photovoltaics that are as cheap as dirt, the enterprise of trying to do it will push our science and our engineering so far forward that we'll generate a cornucopia of unexpected new technologies that will be the basis of vast new industries.

For decades researchers have promoted the idea that the first Americans were clans of Siberian big - game hunters who trekked hundreds of miles on foot over a vast land bridge (where the Bering Strait is now) and came south from Alaska some 13,000 years ago.

When this happens, kestrels may have to emigrate over many hundreds of miles to find their prey.

When sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides are released from power plants and other sources, prevailing winds blow these compounds across state and national borders, sometimes over hundreds of miles.

The ice stretches over these sticking points twice per day as the tide lifts up and sets down the Ross Ice Shelf, a 1,100 - foot - thick slab of ice the size of Spain that hangs over the ocean several hundred miles away.

Already, researchers have tapped entanglement to teleport information instantly over hundreds of miles.

Entangled whales can tow fishing gear for tens to hundreds of miles over months or even years, before either being freed, shedding the gear on their own, or succumbing to their injuries.

Using multibeam sonar, a recent expedition found that the foot of the slope north of Alaska lies much farther out than expected, potentially entitling the United States to new resource rights over hundreds of square miles of seabed.

Flying over the ice in a repurposed DC - 3 military airplane, seeing the massive icebergs and the miles - long fractures splitting the surface like frozen lightning bolts, she could not stop thinking about the chaotic terrain hundreds of millions of miles away on Europa.

Biologists had already observed this interaction in living systems — a coral reef whose millions of tightly networked members could communicate data about weather over hundreds of miles and a slime mold whose millions of member cells, spread out over acres, could coalesce and take organized action for survival at a moment's notice.

The scientists» computer modeling suggests that if deforestation in the Amazon continues at the current pace, it could significantly cut rainfall hundreds of miles away over the next several decades.

The blue - white fireball streaked over northern Mexico at 1:05 a.m., ending with a staccato of booms heard from hundreds of miles away.

For the last hundred years, travelers and explorers in Peru have puzzled over Chankillo, an ancient monument built on a remote desert hilltop 250 miles north of Lima.

«Unlike harbor seals, elephant seals and other marine mammals that range over hundreds or even thousand of miles, sea otters stick to their roots.»

The volcano that killed them erupted hundreds of miles away in southern Idaho, spewing a blanket of ash over much of what is now the western U.S..

UNITED NATIONS — The biggest land grab since colonial times is accelerating as nations scramble to claim writ over hundreds of thousands of square miles of ocean floor, much of it believed to be rich in natural resources.

The United States has thrown hundreds of satellites into space, resulting in over 500,000 pieces of debris orbiting Earth at over 17,000 miles per hour, and has cleaned up nothing.

Its speed of over 25 miles a year is three times faster than the typical speed of liquid in the outer core and hundreds of thousands of times faster than the speed at which Earth's tectonic plates move.

De Pater's long - time colleague and coauthor Ashley Davies, a volcanologist with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, Calif., said that the recent eruptions resemble past events that spewed tens of cubic miles of lava over hundreds of square miles in a short period of time.

The earliest evidence for established trade exists in the Neolithic with newly settled people importing exotic goods over distances of many hundreds of miles.

The large scarps were formed as Mercury's interior cooled, causing the planet to contract and the crust to break and thrust upward along faults making cliffs up to hundreds of miles long and some more than a mile (over one - and - a-half kilometers) high.

The last few miles are brutal (for anyone), and you will try to convince yourself a hundred times over that you need to stop, but that's when you start running from the heart.

PSN: MystykkGreever I don't obsess over anything, not hung up on any exes, and I don't mind traveling a hundred miles to meet someone.

Once I'd changed my search, I found well over a hundred eligible men in my geographic area, although I did note that even though I'd asked to be shown men within 100 miles of my area, I received a considerable number that were 100 - 150 miles away in my search results.

«Nothing makes an episode of Billions pop like a scheme... After a (very good) week of catching up on what our buddies did over summer vacation, it's extremely welcome to be right back in the swing of things, racing around at a hundred miles an hour.»

The nonadjustable, shell - type folding seats are surprisingly comfortable and very supportive, even over drives lasting several hundred miles.

We drove the 2015 McLaren 650S over Laureles Grade and back (not far, but far enough), and found it even more poised and supple at civilian speed than we remember from putting a couple hundred miles on the McLaren MP4 - 12C in metropolitan Los Angeles.

Over close to a week and several hundred miles, we found the TT a mature, highly capable, and well - engineered machine.

But I missed that extra dollop of power while running in Eco Assist mode, which did give me 36.4 miles per gallon over several hundred miles of combined city and highway driving.

Four hundred miles strung over a full day of driving can be hard on the body in any vehicle, especially in a small sports car, and all the more so for my long - legged, 6 - foot -2-inch frame.