Sentences with phrase «over a mile high»

Since I live over a mile high (in Boulder) and bake a lot, I'm interested in your high - altitude baking adjustments.

Some of the games in South Africa will be played at elevations over a mile high.

Not exact matches

Flying nearly 1,800 miles high above earth, the missile flew for over 35 minutes before crashing down into the sea, according to David Wright of the Union of Concerned Scientists.

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

Thanks to high - quality graphics, high - speed Internet connections, webcams and voice over IP, videoconference systems, and Web - based online meeting services are miles ahead of where they used to be.

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.

They tend to have a higher interest rate, which means you could end up paying many times over in interest for the airline miles you accumulate.

I grew up with over 30 % of my high school being muslim, with the largest Mosque in the States being just a few miles away, and with students learning more Arabic in high school than spanish.

Réunion, about 500 miles east of Madagascar, is volcanic in origin and extremely mountainous, with peaks over ten thousand feet high.

On the next go - round he rose to 123,500 feet — more than 23 miles — over the South Dakota prairie, still the highest flight by a manned balloon.

The billboard is 11 stories high and visible from over a mile away.

He'd lived out my ambivalence, spent some years thousands of miles removed from box scores and title chases, spent others high - fiving me over touchdowns and slam dunks, slurping down SportsCenter and sports pages first thing every morning along with cereal and milk.

The Gloucester Fox Hunters Plate, a race of about three miles over 22 timber fences, was the fifth of six events and the day's high point.

East Hampton Town has joined a lawsuit brought by a citizens group in 2014 against the Long Island Power Authority and PSEG - Long Island over the installation of high - voltage transmission lines and poles along a six - mile route from East Hampton Village to an Amagansett substation.

A few miles away, officials say fast - track construction on replacing the old bridge over the Rondout Creek at High Falls will be completed in a few weeks.

For the second evening in a row, Erie County Sheriff's Deputies were involved in a high speed chase in the Southtowns, reaching speeds over 100 miles per hour through East Aurora and Orchard Park.

Using echosounders installed on the hull of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) ship Nancy Foster, the science team mapped canyons and shelf regions at high resolution over more than 380 square miles (1,000 square kilometers) of seafloor from south of Cape Hatteras to Baltimore Canyon, which runs from offshore North Carolina to the eastern tip of Long Island.

Yet the practice is widespread, in part because oil prices have been much higher in recent years and because it is hard to find new multimillion barrel reservoirs these days, especially in the picked over U.S. Denbury, based in Plano, Texas, controls more than 1,000 miles of CO2 pipelines and has published reserves of 17 trillion cubic feet of the greenhouse gas, used to pump more than 70,000 barrels of oil a day.

The crevasses are interesting, Tulaczyk says, because they mark spots where, half a mile below, the ice grinds over a high spot in the underlying rock — sort of a thorn in its belly.

At 43 pixels wide, the new images are more than 30 percent higher in resolution than those taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope in 2003 and 2004 at a distance of over 150 million miles (about 241 million kilometers).

The 20 - mile trip took more than two days, leading mules, professors and students 3,000 feet up and over a high alpine plateau and down several thousand feet into a valley, where they slowly weaved their way along a river in the direction of a boulder field until they finally reached the glacier's base.

From there, backpacks replaced mules, and equipment was hauled the last 2 miles over the rocks to a high - altitude research camp at roughly 11,000 feet.

The ozone measurements, taken between 2 and 6 miles in altitude (3 - 10 kilometers) over a large part of the eastern Indian Ocean, were as high as 80 parts per billion - levels similar to a polluted day in a U.S. city and several times more than normal.

Among Freeman's specific recommendations are a «20 percent federal tax credit to electricity and natural gas utilities that gives highest priority to the efficient use of the energy they supply,» and ban on new coal or nuclear plants and retirement of the existing plants within the next 30 years, government - funded demonstration plants for Big Solar and hydrogen, increasing federal fuel economy standards one mile - per - gallon a year over the next 24 years, tax credits for plug - in hybrids or flex - fuel vehicles, and an excess - profits tax on oil to fund the tax credits.

Based upon eight (8) joint Russian / American scientific expeditions into the Arctic under the aegis of the International Arctic Research Centre at the University Alaska Fairbanks, methane fields of a breathtakingly fantastic scale have been discovered with plumes over a half - mile wide spewing methane directly into the atmosphere in concentrations 100 times higher than normal.

The velocity of the solar wind is higher over coronal holes, reaching speeds of up to 500 miles (800 kilometers) per second.

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.

Part of the Stand Up World Series circuit, Lenny will be one of 40 SUP athletes padding an open course that stretches 7.5 miles, including under the Golden Gate Bridge, and includes waves over 10 feet high, Lenny says it gets him more excited than a normal race because he can take on the giant waves with the paddling.

There is a higher possibility that at some point I will need to sprint away from an animal / attacker etc or pull myself over something in a similar situation than that I will have to run 26.2 miles at one time.

I love how good it feels to know that the same great legs rocking my high - heeled boots can carry me for miles and miles, up and over a mountain, do sprints through the grass playing catch with my friend's dogs, or allow me to enjoy a beautiful run around Lady Bird Lake.

I love how good it feels to know that the same great legs rocking my high - heeled boots can carry me for miles and miles, up and over a mountain, do sprints through the grass playing catch with my friend's dogs, or allow me to enjoy a... [Read more...]

You are correct that people who run high miles over many years are likely to experience injury at some point — but his post is not about that.

Then they jump on the bike and ride for 40k which isn't that difficult because that's a pretty low impact sport, but they go run 6 to 10 miles and that's a high impact sport and that's like... each foot follows over 6 Gs worth of impact so over 6 miles that's like 30,000 G - forces pulling on the tape trying to make it come off.

Frozen veggies - again, when the growing season is over and I can no longer get local fresh produce, frozen veggies are the best option, since they often have higher nutrient contents compared to the fresh produce that has been shipped thousands of miles, sitting around for weeks before making it to your dinner table.

I.e. last night I got so angry over my Nike app not applying my 100 mile high trophy to my stats.

August 23, High Summer, and LPC has pulled on a WOOL COAT to walk over a mile to work, both ways.

Once again the politico's fail to learn from past mistakes (the entire history of the sea is one mismanagement after another), ignoring no only the impact on bird life but the impending ecological disaster of exposing a 600 sq mile alkali bed to the high winds of the area (think of salt blowing all over those green golf courses in Palm Springs, only 30 miles away).

Subsequently sitting across the aisle from each other as the jet cruises above mile - high altitude, the two proceed to flirt shamelessly over drinks until June excuses herself to powder her nose.

Over dinner in a pedestrian conference room, DPS administrators told AdvancED reviewers of their struggles to educate students in a 299 - square - mile county with the state's second - highest violent - crime rate.

Julie Byren, a 13 - year - old from Hermosa Beach, Calif., located about 20 miles from where Mr. Enciso teaches English / language arts at the 1,900 - student Dorsey High School in Los Angeles, read the piece and decided to hand over $ 800, a portion of the money she had recently received for her bat mitzvah, the Jewish rite of...

Over 60 percent of teachers teach within 20 miles of where they went to high school.

«Over 60 percent of teachers teach within 20 miles of where they went to high school, which makes it vital for every community to invest in growing their own great teachers today.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. — In the back of a tenth - grade geometry classroom on a recent morning at Washington Preparatory High School, nine miles southeast of Los Angeles, Landon Yurica and Alycia Jones bent over the papers in front of them.

The Grossglockner High Alpine Road (to give it its full title) stretches over 28 miles and 36 hairpins, and reaches a height of 2504m above sea level.

Backing up those findings, an AAA Travel survey found that 46.9 million Americans will drive at least 50 miles from home over Thanksgiving this year, the highest figure since 2007 and an increase of 0.6 percent since last year.

For some, it's the Rubicon Trail, 20 miles of tears and heartbreak through the High Sierra mountains, over boulders, bigger boulders, and death - defying boulders.

As a state with some of the largest metropolitan areas in the nation, spread out over hundreds of miles, Texas is now in high demand for alternative modes of transportation.

Over those largely highway miles, the S60 showed itself to be a comfortable long - distance cruiser with an impressive powertrain, capable handling, and a high level of refinement.

Bealach Na Ba (or, if you don't want to fret over the pronunciation, the Pass of the Cattle) isn't the highest road in Scotland, but the fact it climbs to 2053ft directly from loch level in just six miles does give it a certain something.

Branded with chassis number 0816, the car collected the highest honour in the world of endurance racing in 1964, clocking an average speed of 122mph over 2918 miles.