Sentences with phrase «over thousands of miles»

While some places on Earth, like South Africa, have a higher total number of shark attacks, those attacks are spread out over thousands of miles.

Payne, 75, is best known for his 1968 discovery and recordings of songs by humpback whales, and for finding that some whale species can communicate with each other over thousands of miles.

On a much larger scale, the Mid-Atlantic Ridge is close to the ocean surface and is pumping heat into the water over thousands of miles.

Not to mention, pumping water over thousands of miles takes a great deal of energy - gasoline - fueled water pumps possibly?

Travel can take many forms: from walking over thousands of miles, or cross-country cycling, to flying on an airplane.

Unlike humans they can navigate over thousands of miles of ocean without GPS units and charts, compasses, etc..

Over thousands of miles from Florida, all the way to Toronto, and across Michigan, the M2 proved itself a versatile long - distance companion.

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.

You will have to correspond with Ukrainian and Russian Women spread over thousands of miles!

Not exact matches

This could be done over the web, from thousands of miles away.

Viewed in one dimension, the standoff over construction of a 1,172 - mile, $ US 3.8 billion oil pipeline pits thousands of protesters massed on the prairie to safeguard a sole source of tribal drinking water from the fossil fuel industry and its allies in government and finance.

Tesla claims it to be so, showing that tens of thousands of clients all over the world have banked more than 100 million miles in semi-autonomous driving until the unfortunate accident of Brown.

Such an arrangement would make it even less likely that the local ordinary would have influence over a particular university, since the ordinary granting the mandate might be thousands of miles away from the Catholic institution involved.

Ancient rules and customs will have little power over a mind that can soar thousands of miles at the speed of light.

When you first become a Christian, and you fly over the rain forest of your life, it is thousands of square miles of impassible and inhabitable jungle, full of twisted vines, rotting leaves, and deadly predators.

His death was a tissue of ironies: a man who had fought for monastic solitude for over 25 years died thousands of miles from his Kentucky hermitage; this passionate pacifist was flown back from Thailand in a military plane, from an airfield that was part of the network of military bases that prospered during the Vietnam years.

Its consistent direction allowed early Polynesian explorers to travel thousands of miles over the ocean in simple, koa - wood canoes.

Wesley, noted for showing kindness to the horses he rode for thousands of miles, preached on the care of animals, calling on his listeners to «imitate Him whose mercy is over all his works.»

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

He's also the subject of several national media hot - takes due to an indefensible act he committed on the night of his 18th birthday in his first month at a college over a thousand miles away from home.

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.

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).

Our original video has been seen by over 11,000 people and some of the individual mile dedicate pictures have reached thousands — what an amazing thing for those names, to be seen so many times.

The Division of Highways is responsible for the engineering and inspection of over a thousand miles of roadways, making ours the largest transportation design team in Western New York.

Arguing over Israel building a house on a mountain thousands of miles away simply isn't worth the Foreign Office's time.

The site is undecided, but the blueprints call for thousands of dishes — each wider and more powerful than those of the ATA — to be spread over an area more than 1,800 miles wide.

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.

The Mekong River courses over some 2,700 miles of dramatically changing terrain, traverses six Southeast Asian countries from China's Tibetan Plateau to the South China Sea, supports one of the planet's most productive inland fisheries and continues to reshape a region it has defined for thousands...

Each site varied in the number of people living within one kilometer (about five - eighths of a mile)-- from nearly a dozen to over 17 thousand.

Someday this material could be stretched over many thousands of square miles of countryside.

Over the past 11 million years, volcanoes have erupted thousands of cubic miles» worth of material over much of the Andean PlatOver the past 11 million years, volcanoes have erupted thousands of cubic miles» worth of material over much of the Andean Platover much of the Andean Plateau.

On the island of Sumatra, over a thousand miles west of Tambora, local chieftains heard the explosions on the morning of April 11.

«The Denisovan group probably was spread out over thousands and thousands of miles,» extending from the tundra of Siberia in the north all the way down to the steamy jungles of southeast Asia — a bigger range than Neanderthals».

Slim's unit operated around the clock, flying Predator drones thousands of miles away over Afghanistan, to monitor — and sometimes eliminate — «targets» across the war - ridden country.

Forty to fifty thousand of them might be scattered in pairs and little groups over thousands of square miles of tundra.

«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 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.

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 temperature in the chromosphere rises from 6,000 K / 10, 340 F / 5, 272 C at the surface of the sun to about 20,000 K / 35,540 F / 19, 730 C. It's an area that's constantly in motion, with different temperatures of hot material mixed over a range of heights, stretching from the sun's surface to many thousands of miles up.

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.

The beauty of which, Ive learned over this summer, is that there is no final step — rather the first step in my next journey of a thousand miles.

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.

Online dating websites allow people to connect from all over the world and through video chat technologies you can feel like you're with the person even if you're thousands of miles away.

Sentenced to work in a Siberian mine shaft that the director imagines as a hellish gold - tinged hallucination, the motley group of prisoners flee certain death for a several thousand mile trek across the Russian wilds, through the Mongolian deserts and over the Himalayas before arriving in non-Communist India.

A non-comprehensive list of the powers Lucy acquires over the course of the film: perfect marksmanship, extreme agility, and instantaneous reflexes; the ability to control TVs and cell phones from thousands of miles away; immunity to pain and fear; telepathy, telekinesis, and clairvoyance; expertise in driving a car really fast into oncoming traffic; teleportation across time and space; and the capacity to alter her existing body parts or grow new ones.

But Shannon wasn't home sulking over his lack of a nod — his art kept him more than a thousand miles from Hollywood.

Want to know what it's like to put a thousand miles on a 300 SL Roadster over four days of driving?

Fuel injectors clog when deposits build up over time and thousands of miles; when that happens, they don't deliver the fine mist of gas that provides maximum performance and efficiency.

It's the most popular engine choice and I can appreciate why; over a few thousand miles it returned an average of 35mpg and for most of the time it's refined and has as much performance as you want.

Both front and rear suspension systems have been uprated and carefully tuned over tens of thousands of miles at Jaguar's testing centre at the legendary Nürburgring, the high - speed bowl at Nardo in Italy and, of course, the engineers» favourite roads around the Gaydon Research and Development centre and in north Wales.