Sentences with phrase «stand about a mile»

There is a strawberry stand about a mile from me.

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The massacre occurred about 330 miles south of the contemporary frontlines formed this year on the Standing Rock Sioux reservation.

Before Wounded Knee, in a military action stirred by gold mining on tribal land, Gen. George Armstrong Custer and 200 U.S. troops were killed in 1876 by Sioux warriors at Little Bighorn, in what is now present day Montana, about 400 miles west of the Standing Rock battle.

We see this in sports, where Roger Bannister's comment about his world - record race (he was the first to run the mile in under four minutes) has often been repeated by other runners: «The world seemed to stand still, or did not exist... «17 And certainly this can be true of the play world of art, which, according to Gerardus Van der Leeuw, is a new «creation, a second world, with its own power.

Last summer his father was making the 160 - mile drive to Mission Viejo from his modest second home in Ensenada, Mexico, when he stopped at a taco stand about 100 miles from the U.S. border.

Any man who wanders in a scant span of 15 miles from rain forest into arid plains of cactus and algarroba and sees snow crests standing over tropic water naturally comes to wonder about the excitements of this varied land.

Barreling across the desert straightaway, air horns no doubt at the ready, Miller and Lange's Liberty Belle broke just about every record for such behemoths: in seven runs they smashed various standing - start and flying - start marks at a quarter mile, a half kilometer, a full kilometer and a mile — 14 in all, each of which has been certified by the U.S. Auto Club as a national record.

More than 17 million people live within 50 miles of the facility, which stands on the east side of the lower Hudson River about 30 miles north of New York City (and 50 miles southeast of Kingston).

Its range is about 4 miles, ensuring that it can stand up to your neighborhood.

As they stood in storage in her basement lab, a magnitude 4.8 earthquake jolted the town of Prague, about 60 miles east of Oklahoma City.

Near the Indian Point nuclear power plant, about 35 miles north of New York City, stand two rows of 20 - foot - high, 180 - ton concrete cylinders.

At the Long Valley caldera, Tarduno quizzes students about the lava flows they have seen and the curve of surrounding landmasses until they realize they are standing in a dormant supervolcano roughly 20 miles long, 11 miles wide and covered in snow.

A silver station wagon loaded with climbing gear, computers, electrical wiring and a few scientists from Harvard University stops near a stand of pine and oak trees in the Harvard Forest, about 70 miles west of campus.

We now stand at about 20,000 known pieces of space debris bigger than an apple — that is, an apple capable of ripping through a steel wall at 17,000 miles per hour — and there's bound to be more.

Whenever I hear about someone climbing a literal mountain, I feel a little twinge of jealousy and imagine what it would be like to stand at the top of a giant part of Earth and see thousands of miles into the distance.

Of the bunch, Jennifer Ehle stands out as Maya's colleague Jessica, for while you can see her predicament coming from miles away, writer Mark Boal peppers the lead - up with so many intimate details that having the time to think about what's coming is more effective than the shock value of a surprise.

At 29,028 feet, some say it is now 29,035, Mount Everest stands about 5 1/2 miles above...

At 29,028 feet, some say it is now 29,035, Mount Everest stands about 5 1/2 miles above sea level!

Bought this truck with 7800 miles on it and had 4 recalls in less than a year the factory bedliner in it is separating from the steel and everytiei take it to the shop and its supposed to be a work truck made tough that's a joke due to the manufacturer defects I have to miss using it on jobs to haul and if you ask for a loaner that is not included in the warranty so I have a ram that is causing me to lose money and the company wont give me a truck to use while its getting manufacturer defects fixed makes sense and well trading it in is a joke after you buy a ram they depreciate dramatically so trading it in will cost you so thought since they changed names maybe they would b better but 2 hours on the hotline about why no loaner for a working man and all I get is there is no loaner policy when your vehicle is in the shop even when it is their flaws!And what really ticked me off they wanted to patch the factory sprayed bedliner so I took it in and dropped it off we had a big hail storm and they left my truck out in it and they aren't responsible for that either and you pay 600 for a factory sprayed bedliner and its peeling up and they want to patch that spot instead of respraying the whole thing can u say cheap but they were more than happy to take my money when I bought it but they don't stand very tough in my opinion never had this many issues with my fords

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In such a case the 1ZR can stand out about 150,000 miles (250,000 km) of mileage.

Even though it is often the third leading seller of all cars with a plug, the EV mafia can't stand that it sips about a teaspoon of fuel every 12 miles or so.

If I sound somewhat unenthusiastic about the Volvo 960, it's because I drove our light gold test car 421 miles in a week and discovered nothing that made it stand out in a very crowded field of exemplary $ 30,000 cars.

Get excited about the 2012 Toyota Prius v. With less than 40,000 miles on the odometer, this vehicle stands out from the competition!

Get excited about the 2015 Toyota Prius v. With less than 20,000 miles on the odometer, this vehicle stands out from the crowd, boasting a diverse range of features and remarkable value!

The pedestrian walkway stands approximately 220 feet above the San Francisco Bay, and, according to an article in The New Yorker (2003), «Jumpers who hit the water do so at about seventy - five miles an hour and with a force of fifteen thousand pounds per square inch.

With the Capital One, you don't have to worry about your miles expiring as long as your account is open and in good standing.

With the Capital One, you don't have to worry about your miles expiring as long as your account is open and in good standing.

Located inside the Barrier Reef, about 10 miles from Placencia (30 Min Boat Ride), this long narrow aisle stands on a reef known as a faro.

Where it stands, it is about 35 miles northwest of Belize City.

As things stand, flights on American Airlines can only be upgraded using AAdvantage miles and Qantas flights can only be upgraded using Qantas Points but, according to Australian Business Traveller (ABT), this could be about to change.

And just in case you're curious about the tax liability of frequent flier miles, here's where it stands: They are not considered to be taxable income.

To understand this, recall that even if you are standing still at the equator, you are moving eastward at a speed of about a thousand miles per hour (it takes 24 hours to rotate through the 24,902 - mile equatorial circumference).

The ozone layer is a long - standing natural feature of the stratosphere, the part of the atmosphere that begins about 6 miles above the earth.

Journalists such as myself, who live thousands of miles distant and are the product of far more egalitarian milieus, don't know the first thing about his social standing or religious caste and consider them irrelevant in any event.

The gap between the 1981 to 2010 average and the 2016 combined ice extent for December now stands at about 3.0 million square kilometers (1.16 million square miles), down from a peak difference of just over 4 million square kilometers (1.50 million square miles) in mid-November.

I stopped by my favorite «stand» for Strawberries at a corner location of an intersection about 1 mile from my home yesterday.

In fact, I didn't realize it until I was standing at a site inspection about fifty miles away from a hearing I was scheduled to attend twenty minutes earlier.

«Joyce's trial to move out of town; Former judge to be tried in Pittsburgh»: Yesterday's edition of The Erie Times - News contained an article that begins, «Former state Superior Court Judge Michael T. Joyce, who made a name for himself with a long judicial career in Erie, will stand trial about 130 miles to the south, in Pittsburgh.

In the «drop your device on the charger and forget about it» facet, the standing charger is miles better.

Judson Mill, at 701 Easley Bridge Road, is about a mile west of Greenville city limits and stands at the northern entrance of the 1,100 - home Judson community.