Sentences with phrase «over a mile of»

Unlike land - based farms, he can only harvest when the tide recedes, leaving over a mile of mudflats, and shellfish, exposed.

It's an art festival, unique in its own way because it's spread out over miles of hotels and events, that's been taking place since 1970 in Basel, Hong Kong and Miami Beach.

training fields, over a mile of on - site hiking trails, as well as four loaded agility courses.

«You're getting over a mile of additional coastline [in] one of the richest and most diverse areas in California,» Susan Jordan, executive director of the California Coastal Protection Network in Santa Barbara, told reporters.

South of Petra the trail continues to the true desert of Wadi Rum over miles of open sands, before finally climbing the jagged faulted mountains that separate it from the Red Sea.

The best accommodation in Burleigh heads is Gemini Court Holiday Apartments, uniquely positioned looking north over miles of white sand beaches up to Surfers Paradise.

Voted one of the best beaches in Aruba by TripAdvisor, our beach offers over a mile of powdery white sand and turquoise water that creates a tranquil atmosphere for guests to relax and soak up the sun.

With sand dunes and over a mile of beach, Second Beach is a popular spot during the warm, summer months.

With over a mile of sandy beach and some of the warmest water in California, Doheny was voted OC's «best camping site» for 14 consecutive years.

This sprawling estate on Grand Bahama Island commands a spectacular view over miles of pure white sand caressed by the turquoise Bahamian sea.

This wonderful, West Indian style home with lovely arches on the sea side is located directly on Long Beach with over a mile of shimmering white sand.

Boqueron beach offers over a mile of light golden sand, water in various shades ranging from dark navy blue to light turquoise like glass.

(For those of you confused by the above, the novel version of Starship Troopers is very different from the movie version, and the titular Troopers in the novel wear powered armor, often equipped with limited - power nuclear weapons and jets capable of «bouncing» over miles of territory, rather than being the cannon fodder of Starship Troopers» movie.

− Executive Director, The Jazz and Heritage Festival Foundation In its inaugural year, Prospect.1 New Orleans featured the work of 81 leading international contemporary artists in 24 exhibition venues, occupying 100,000 square feet of space which was widely spread over miles of the city's eclectic, historic, and some still blighted neighborhoods.

third, it is necessary to site nuclear plants near population centers because the energy is gradually lost over miles of high tension lines.

It's difficult to look out over miles of waste rock and tailings from a century of copper mining in the American Southwest and see anything but environmental destruction.

Physorg reports that Christopher Clark, the I.P. Johnson Director of the Bioacoustics Research Program at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology has created state - of - the - art acoustic animations that show how whale song gets lost among the noise of ship traffic, and therefore whales that require the quiet of the ocean to communicate over miles of open water are not able to hear one another's songs.

Watch the sun set over miles of coastal wetlands sinking behind the bridge that crosses Lazaretto Creek and connects Tybee Island with one of the most fabulous scenic areas in all of Georgia.

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The field, covering nearly 75 square miles, was discovered in 1911 and has produced over 2 billion barrels of oil equivalent (BOE), making it one of the most productive fields in the United States.

As well as disputes over stretches of a 3,500 km (2,200 miles) border, they are bumping up against each other in the Indian Ocean and squabbling over Xi's signature Belt and Road infrastructure initiative.

Twenty miles an hour over the speed limit qualified as reckless driving, so I figured 40 miles an hour over was a one - way ticket to the magistrate's office, a lost license, and months of hassling friends for rides to work.

Cruise control is not just the easiest way to make sure you don't get a ticket — I routinely set mine 6 or 7 miles an hour over the speed limit, and (knock on a huge piece of wood) can't remember the last time I got a speeding ticket — but it's also the courteous move, especially on the interstate.

Cadiz is a private corporation sitting on roughly 70 square miles of property in the Mojave Desert over a deep aquifer.

The Waymo fleet of self - driving cars has driven three million autonomous miles and simulated over one billion miles.

But with an airdrop, he added «almost 100 % of the source term -LSB-...] ends up on the land» — so a salted weapon blown up over a target would «be many, many orders of magnitude worse than the fallout produced by an underwater detonation» several miles from shore.

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.

The uninhabited half - square - mile island, possessing no apparent natural resources, is a bizarre sliver of territory for two countries to fight over.

Strohmayer added that the aircraft could carry two pilots over a distance of just under 250 miles.

The aircraft had to fly over the Alps, climbing to an altitude of 13,123 feet and travelling 199 miles.

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

For example, the cost of designing, building, launching and monitoring the government's Landsat satellite, which takes pictures of Earth from 480 miles up, is over $ 1 billion, according to the United States Geological Survey, which administers data from the satellite.

Six missiles with a range of between 650 to 700 kilometers (400 - 435 miles) were fired from western Iran, soaring over Iraqi territory and striking the targets in Deir al - Zor.

spent 218 hours in space, orbited the Earth a total of 137 times, and racked up over 3.6 million miles» worth of space travel

The lawn started at the beach and ran toward the front door for a quarter of a mile, jumping over sun - dials and brick walks and burning gardens — finally when it reached the house drifting up the side in bright vines as though from the momentum of its run.

The group of veterans are also expected over the weekend to complete building a barracks and mess hall near where they constructed a headquarters at the Oceti Sakowin camp about 5 miles (8 km) north of the small town of Cannon Ball.

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.

Turkey has threatened to march on Manbij and wrest it from Kurdish hands after its forces won a resounding victory over Kurdish fighters earlier this month and took control of Afrin, a town 60 miles (100 kilometers) to the west.

Musk ordered a two - speed model so that the Roadster would be able reach a top speed of well over 100 miles per hour.

But as someone who has traveled more than two million miles over the course of my career, I have come up with some overlooked travel etiquette tips that everyone can benefit from.

Backup human drivers in Uber's self - driving cars had to take over about once every mile as of March 8, according to documents obtained by Recode (Uber doesn't make its data publicly available).

The BFR's spaceship could fly more than 4.6 miles per second, according to SpaceX — over 12 times as fast as the supersonic Concorde jets of yesteryear.

Google for example, said recently that its driverless cars have completed over 2 million miles of autonomous driving.

Once the hills were over I knew the worst was behind me, and it was actually fun to jog out the rest of the miles.

The presumed user of a hiking shoe has weight on his or her back and will be logging many miles over the course of multiple consecutive days.

In the U.S., the federal government has announced a sweeping plan to fund EV charging stations every 50 miles over 25,000 miles of American highways, spanning 35 states.

SpaceX is also planning an additional constellation of 7,518 V band satellites, situated in a «very low» Earth orbit at just over 200 miles.

The region features roughly the same number of luxury hotels and wineries as Napa County but spread out over an area three times as big with redwoods and a 55 - mile coastline.

The state of Nebraska just cleared one of the last hurdles for the Keystone XL pipeline, potentially ending a decade - long saga over the 1,700 - mile pipeline.

In some parts of the country there are well - preserved, 30 - year - old Volvo 240s happily humming along with over 1 million miles on the odometer.

Which is why Amazon has already built dozens of fulfillment centers that put it within 20 miles of over 30 % of the US population and 50 % of it's target market.