Sentences with phrase «road miles by»

To simulate real - world conditions, the 2007 Dodge Caliber SRT4 will have logged nearly 2 million customer - equivalent road miles by the time vehicles begin appearing in dealerships.

Not exact matches

By late morning, Turpen, wearing shorts, a kerchief mask, and goggles, was the last man standing for miles along one abandoned road.

The stats are fairly staggering: four million miles of public roads, 140,000 miles of railroad tracks operated by freight carriers, 25,000 miles of navigable waterways, 9,800 coastal and inland waterway facilities, and 5,200 public - use airports, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics.

For instance, one Inc. 500 CEO set up a disaster - recovery center in an outbuilding near his vacation home, about 45 miles from the high - tech company's headquarters; he already knows how to reach that site by either the main highway or the back roads.

The only way Malawi can import and export goods is by road via Blantyre, the country's commercial capital, to the Mozambican port city of Beria, a round trip of 1,200 kilometers (745 miles).

By Carolyn Whelan, contributor Off a lonely dirt road 30 miles west of Beaver, Utah, (pop: 6,162) on a brisk...

According to the U.S. Department of Transportation, the state is connected by 313,596 miles of public road, the most of any state.

«Travel on all roads and streets changed by -0.1 % -LRB--0.2 billion vehicle miles) for February 2018 as compared with February 2017.

Poipet, 220 miles on bouncy roads from Phnom Penh, is a dusty collection of dirt alleys lined with brothels, where teenage girls clutch at any man walking by.

Loja, a city of 60,000 and the capital of the province of Loja, lies 25 miles from Vilcabamba and is accessible only by a narrow, winding dirt road that serves as a natural barricade.

When that happens, all of us secretly hope that another few miles down the road, we see that guy either pulled over by a cop or broken down on the side of the road.

Only an outbuilding on the property of Miracle Baptist Church on Murfreesboro Road in LaVergne, about 30 miles southeast of Nashville, was scorched by flames, thanks, in part, to a man who was down - on - his - luck and reached out to the church for help just days earlier.

But its founder, its position, and the definite Tractarian influence of its early leaders gave major prominence to Cuddesdon, established by Bishop Wilberforce in 1854 across the road from his episcopal palace, six miles from Oxford.

I have spent most of my years living in surburbia, or out in the country, or a small city that doesn't really feel much like a city at all — more like a few towns connected by miles and miles of country roads and freeways.

By 1900, the city's stockyards occupied 475 acres, contained 50 miles of roads and contained a perimeter of 130 miles of railroad track.

Jutting 120 miles into the Atlantic Ocean, the North Fork is approximately 30 miles long by five miles wide of country roads, local farms, quaint towns, and sprawling vineyards.

By Sunday night 155 bucks had been killed, one hunter had shot himself in the foot, a $ 12,500 forest fire was burning briskly, 50 citations for illegal fires had been handed out, another six had been given for illegal discharge of firearms within a quarter mile of campgrounds and roads.

How well the state of California has succeeded in preparing for her guests can be best summarized by statistics: 45 miles of cross-country runs, 14 miles of downhill trail and, of course, the great jump, 1,300 feet from top to bottom, are all ready and now being tested by advance contingents of skiers; three ski lifts have been constructed at a cost of $ 600,000; $ 50,000 has been spent to secure Squaw against the chance of avalanche; communications on the downhill courses require 80 miles of telephone wire; blasting the trails smooth took two tons of dynamite; 12 miles of construction road were built; it took 50 men and $ 250,000 to build the ski jump.

Then, past the Iffley Road Running Track, made famous by Sir Roger Bannister breaking the 4 - minute mile in 1954, then over the impressive Magdalen Bridge, towards the city centre.

Back in the 1930s, after authorizing the construction of six miles of switchback road up Akhun, Soviet ruler Josef Stalin scoffed at the suggestion by sycophants that a statue of him be erected at the top.

Sorry to be pedantic but Watford is a town 20 miles from Arsenal, between 45 minutes and an hour by road.

Portman Road is only a quarter of a mile away from Ipswich train station, meaning that those arriving by train can walk to the ground in five minutes.

Four of those were by British runners led by British road mile champion Sarah McDonald's 4:07.18 from Melissa Courtney's 4:07.55, their times being European Championships qualifying marks.

Chief among them, of course, the fact this was a third away game in a week which had involved 3,500 miles of travel by air and road for the Blues.

Somewhere on a red dirt road flanked by corrugated tin lean - tos painted blue / green like a sea that is nowhere to be found, by waxy green leaves of false banana trees and round huts the same color as the ground, miles every day she walks in rubber flip flops toward the well and back again, red kerchief over her braids, carrying a burden of water, dreaming a shared dream.

The 1.8 mile path around the lake is an inviting place to enjoy a peaceful walk or, take a paddle or sail boat ride by renting the equipment from the Park District's Boat House located at Lake Arlington, just north of Palatine Road on Windsor.

Next time you're on the road with young children, try these simple, entertaining car games to make the miles fly by — no...

Separated by just two roads and 3.3 miles and each talented enough to win a state championship, there may never have been a bigger game — in any sport — in the history of the Buffalo Grove - Wheeling rivalry.

Acting on a recommendation by the Parks and Recreation Commission, board members agreed last week to study the possibility of lighting Midway Drive between Brookbank Road and Eleanor Place - about three - eighths of a mile.

I am so thankful that I have relocated to a small farm in the midwest, where next year I will be raising my own meat chickens and won't have to worry about where my chicken meat is processed... it will be «processed» by the Amish farmers a few miles down the road.

If the amount of roads in the same city then went up by 11 percent between 1990 and 2000, the total number of miles driven also went up by 11 percent.

For starters, miles of roads that were ravaged by two successive brutal winters are being repaired.

That is the equivalent to five and a half hours on the roads on business every single day, at an average speed of 30 miles per hour, and at # 16,612 was the biggest payout for road travel by more than # 4,500.

It would be fairer, he went on, to ensure that all drivers contribute towards road costs through a general per mile charge — offset initially by a commensurate reduction in fuel duty.

Prioritizing Infrastructure Repairs: The executive budget increases the city's road resurfacing investment by $ 49 million, to a total of $ 226 million FY 2015 to resurface 1,000 lane miles, while prioritizing investment in bridges by allocating an additional $ 346 million for maintenance.

ALBANY — After a four - year hiatus, the cost of the State Police unit that patrols the Thruway is once again being paid by the operators of that 570 - mile toll road.

But, like the councilmen, Oddo has proposed that the city increase their annual target for road resurfacing by 300 miles.

The remnants of former palm groves are visible, concentrated right next to the road, surrounded by the circles typical of aspersion irrigation zones: Pivots with ranges of approximately 650 feet provide water to grain plots over an area of approximately 15 square miles.

Now Google's fleet of self - driving cars has completed 140,000 miles on the road with only two small accidents — one of them caused by human error.

Although Chinese law mandates that cars get at least 35 miles per gallon fuel efficiency, a level the U.S. fleet won't reach until 2020, a large enough fleet of Chinese cars would forestall efforts to combat climate change or eliminate the other environmental challenges posed by paved roads, suburbanization and all that traffic.

One team, led by scientists in the United Kingdom and Brazil, drove more than 1,200 miles across Brazil — «a Top Gear — style road trip,» one scientist quipped — with a portable device that could produce a complete catalog of the virus's genes in less than a day.

It's difficult to pinpoint how many land animals are killed by vehicular traffic annually — no single entity keeps track — but over a 17 - month period, one study documented more than 8,000 fatalities along a 1.1 - mile stretch of road in Indiana.

Small electric vehicles, guided in part by magnets embedded in the road, will act as driverless taxicabs serving 83 stations situated throughout the roughly 2.5 - square - mile city.

So the original 6 pounds of carbon combine with 15 or 16 pounds of oxygen, minus some soot, water, and other by - products, and, bingo, by driving 21 miles down the road, my car has just disturbed the balance of the planet's carbon cycle by producing 19 pounds of CO2.

But by modern times, their running tradition had turned to sport: Men wearing simple tire - tread sandals bound with leather thongs compete in a 24 - hour footrace that involves kicking a ball over about 100 miles of mountainous road.

Burning embers from the bark of trees were carried aloft by shifting winds and updrafts of the fire's own convection currents for up to 20 miles, jumping across roads, clearing fire breaks, and starting new blazes on the parched ground.

FACT: Fifty - two percent of national forests are logged, mined, and crisscrossed by more than 373,000 miles of roads, enough to circle Earth 14 times.

Editor's Note: Expedition Blue Planet, led by Jacques Cousteau's granddaughter Alexandra Cousteau, is traveling 14,500 miles of road over 138 days to investigate and film some of North America's most pressing water - use and management stories.

He also wants to put a million 150 - mile -(240 - kilometer --RRB- per - gallon plug - in hybrids on the road by 2015 and plans to raise fuel economy standards by 4 percent each year.

Bluestein and two graduate students had set up about six miles from Route 183, a north - south road bordered by grain fields and farmhouses.