Sentences with phrase «space up to a million»

Bigger eyes enabled them to see 70 times farther in the air than underwater, increasing their visually monitored space up to a million times.

Not exact matches

The UK capital hopes to lure talent with its East London «Silicon Roundabout,» (OK, a «roundabout» sounds a bit dinky compared to a whole «valley,» but the area boasts a new Google - sponsored space for start - ups as well as 300 innovative companies) as well as measures to boost the city's start - up scene, including # 75 million in funding for high - tech small and medium businesses from the government's new Innovation and Research Strategy for Growth and the Digital London summit showcasing local tech talent that's due to be held March 13 to 14.

The main building, renovated and expanded starting in 2004 to the tune of $ 30 million, includes parking space for two tour buses, and during the summer months the hotel hosts Live at the Sunset Marquis, a web series spotlighting up - and - comers performing poolside.

Specifically, Foster said, he had to get $ 50,000 up front, then pay $ 25,000 a month to rent the space from AMC, which would still be the leaseholder — and he had to get a $ 2 million line of credit.

Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank has been especially bullish about the opportunity, spending $ 710 million to scoop up a handful of apps in the space.

Longer term, assuming safety and comfort improves and ticket prices drop, Futron sees as many as 15,700 people flying to space annually, representing up to $ 786 million a year in revenue.

Yet the extent to which he has already reframed our notion of space adventure was made clear on a warm October morning in St. Louis, when he picked up his $ 10 million X-Prize.

Bratty's current focus is Downtown Markham, a 243 - acre development project in Markham, Ont., comprising up to 8,000 residential units, two million square feet of commercial space, 3.4 million square feet of office space, and a new campus of York University.

Other winners: Boeing, which picked up $ 18 million for its own seven - person space capsule, and the United Launch Alliance, a Boeing - Lockheed Martin joint project, which received $ 6.7 million to develop a way to monitor the health of unmanned rockets that could be recycled to launch manned spacecraft.

Over the past decade and a half, they and the major insurers have snapped up most of the biggest properties — OMERS bought Brookfield Place in Toronto four years ago, for example, while London Life and Great - West Life jointly spent $ 382 million on Calgary's Gulf Canada Square in 2007 — and today are believed to own almost 90 % of downtown Toronto's commercial space.

The company has another $ 1.9 billion worth of renovations and new projects in the pipeline: Some 100 miles to the southwest of Roosevelt Field, Simon recently wrapped up a $ 200 million overhaul and expansion of the King of Prussia mall — adding space for 50 more stores in what's already the second - largest mall in the U.S.

Tech giant Nokia took a big step into the digital health space when it snapped up France's Withings, which has a product suite encompassing everything from activity trackers to smart watches to sleek, high - tech scales, for $ 191 million last year.

The scale of Amazon.com Inc.'s undertaking — over time, needing up to 8 million square feet of office space and 50,000 well - paid employees — is unlike anything seen in recent memory.

The Provincial Government has also pledged an investment of $ 20 million in 2017 - 18 for child care funding, to support the creation of up to 2,000 new, additional, child - care spaces.

The EU has invested five million euros to set up a centre that provides knowledge (in - depth sector market reports, guidelines, and case studies); tailored export advice extending to legal and regulatory requirements; rules on market access and competitor and market analysis; assistance with due diligence; training programs adapted for the needs of individual companies; and hot - desks and work spaces in China.

Trepp and his fellow panelists agreed that even with up to 1.5 million square feet of new office space potentially delivered to market in the next three to five years, the Vancouver market would remain «in balance», peaking at no higher than 14 per cent vacancy when the new supply arrives.

FinTech startups Affirm and GreenSky are already in the space and, according to the WSJ, have both raised approximately $ 200 million in the past few weeks as they gear up for their respective expansions.

This is why as soon as WeWork, the US shared office space company, said it wanted to issue $ 500 million of high yield bonds, we saw morale perk up and investors dive into the new issuance.

The BC Liberals have pledged to increase investment in childcare by 352.5 million, creating 5,000 new places in 2017 with a goal to have up to 13,000 additional spaces by 2020.

Chesapeake Real Estate Group has acquired 259 acres in Anne Arundel County and plans to develop up to 1 million square feet of industrial and warehouse space there.

Now, the state is putting up $ 32 million over five years to provide funding for those entrepreneurs and give them the work space and support services they need to build a successful business.

The cost of the space segment of such a system would be low, as compared with ground - based TV systems: launching, rocket and satellite would cost about $ 10 million, including allowance for possible launch failure, to which should be added not more than $ 5 million for the ground station «up - link».

With Dion Waiters out of the picture, the Thunder have the cap space to renegotiate Westbrook's contract, which is currently set to pay him $ 17.77 million, up to the current maximum contract for a player with his years of service, which is $ 26.54 million.

Still, the Thunder can create significant cap space and keep them by keeping the relatively small cap holds those three have on the books, which add up to just over $ 26 million, according to Basketball Insiders» Eric Pincus.

Manning agreed to a $ 4 million pay cut to free up cap space for the team, though that money was reapplied to his deal in incentives.

Arizona cut Ginn on Monday to free up $ 2.5 million of cap space.

The Saints have more than $ 28 million in space to work with, but if they can't figure out a solution by Monday — a team with much more space to work with could swoop in and stir up trouble, a team like the Jets.

Buchholz might bring back the least given he has just the one year left and is owed $ 13.5 million, but he would also open up payroll space for the Red Sox to upgrade in - season while pushing them further under the luxury tax threshold now.

A cut of Liuget with a post June 1st designation leaves on $ 1.5 million in dead money (compared to $ 3 million if cut today) and frees up $ 8 million in cap space.

The Sun says Wenger is prepared to spend # 25 million on Krychowiak in the summer, with Mikel Arteta and Mathieu Flamini both leaving, and freeing up a space in the middle.

The Glencoe Park District Board asked voters Tuesday to give it authority to borrow up to $ 14 million to renovate the village's Community Center, which would include constructing a 14,000 - square - foot gymnasium and space for early - childhood programs.

The $ 52 million round is the first of multiple projects planned for Mount Snow as part of Mount Snow's Master Plan, which has been vetted and approved by the state of Vermont and includes the development of up to 900 residential units and 200,000 square feet of commercial space.

DuPage County voters approved a $ 75 million bond issue in November that called for each of six county districts to receive up to $ 10 million to be used for open space.

The new laws prevent de Blasio from charging rent to charters as he had said he would, require the city to find space for charters in D.O.E. buildings or to fund those schools up to $ 40 million for space in private buildings, and implement other safeguards for charters after an intensive charter lobbying effort in Albany.

Councilman Fernando Cabrera (D - University Heights) said he's allocated nearly $ 6 million to the Parks Department in the last three years to spruce up green spaces in his district, which includes Fordham and the West Bronx, but hasn't seen results.

Ruben Diaz Jr., borough president for the Bronx, is propping up his plan for a waterfront district in South Harlem that could offer more than a million square feet of residential and commercial space to the area.

Of course, to do that, someone has to hire you, protect your time for research, give you space, and provide a million - dollar start - up package.

«It now appears that the major diversification of placental mammals closely followed the extinction of dinosaurs 66 million years ago, an event that would have opened up ecological space for mammals to evolve into.»

Compared with, let's say, 30 billion neurons and a million billion connections in the human cortex alone, the most complex brain - based devices presently have less than a million neurons and maybe up to 10 million or so synapses, the space across which nerve impulses pass from one neuron to another.

According to a 2007 study by Donald Shoup at the University of California, Los Angeles, drivers in a 15 - block district of LA notched up a staggering 1.5 million kilometres a year looking for parking spaces.

Each finalist team will receive $ 4 million to firm up its concept by mid-2019, when NASA will choose one to fully develop as the fourth member of the space agency's «New Frontiers» program.

«We're committed to safely transporting U.S. astronauts on American - made spacecraft and ending the outsourcing of this work to foreign governments,» Bolden said last year as he announced payments of up to $ 92 million to four companies, including Blue Origin and Boeing, that are working on commercial space - crew vehicles.

Topping the list is a $ 1.75 million project to irradiate up to 18 squirrel monkeys in an effort to find out what space radiation does to the central nervous system.

According to standard models, the first stars needed at least 500 million years to begin lighting up and another 700 million to 1 billion years to manufacture heavy elements such as iron and spread them through space.

From the fleeting glimpses they have had, astronomers reckon 2012 DA14 is 45 metres across — similar in size to the space projectile that exploded over the uninhabited Tunguska region of Siberia in 1908, ripping up 80 million trees across 2000 square kilometres.

A furry, beaverlike mammal that survived the apocalyptic dinosaur - killing space rock that crashed to Earth 66 million years ago hid out in what is now New Mexico, grinding up leafy meals with its enormous molars.

It made history in 2004 when it awarded $ 10 million to aircraft designer Burt Rutan's Scaled Composites for twice sending its SpaceShipOne more than 100 kilometers (62 miles) up into space, still the world's only private manned spaceflights.

Other winners include work on induced pluripotent stem cells and regenerative medicine, which gets a 40 % increase to $ 69 million, and space - related research, including Earth observation, which will go up by 36 % to $ 631 million.

Now Alexander Kashlinsky of the Goddard Space Flight Center may have peered all the way to the most remote objects in the universe: the primordial stars that first lit up a pitch - black cosmos 200 million years after the Big Bang.

Web search leader Google Inc. will sponsor a $ 30 million competition for an unmanned lunar landing, following up on the $ 10 million Ansari X Prize that spurred a private sector race to space.