Sentences with phrase «stretch for nearly»

The ruins of a great temple built to Amun stretch for nearly two football fields in the shadow of Jebel Barkal's cliff.

The lower costs help $ 1 million in savings stretch for nearly 19 years in the state.

With a coastline that stretches for nearly 37,000 km, it's unsurprising that the beaches in Australia can't really be rivalled.

Set within a horseshoe - shaped bay, Playa del Coco stretches for nearly two miles (3 km) and is made up of greyish - white sand.

The Belize barrier reef stretches for nearly 140 miles along the coastline, and is home to dozens of species of fish and corals.

Ms. Imhof's show was favored to win the Golden Lion, and the wait to get in stretched for nearly an hour during last week's professional preview.

Not exact matches

In the US, having sat in many an ER waiting room for hours at a stretch, the idea of a hospital seeing nearly 9 out of 10 patients in four hours would be regarded as a miracle.

Perhaps even more important is that it's nearly impossible to stay focused for long stretches at a time.

Still, you can stretch $ 1 million for nearly 19 years if you live in Idaho.

There were other issues too: The way the accounts of Israel's monarchy contradicted one another, the way Jesus and Paul quoted Hebrew Scripture in ways that seemed to stretch the original meaning, the fact that women were considered property in Levitical Law, the way both science and archeology challenged the historicity of so many biblical texts, and the fact that it was nearly impossible for me to write a creative retelling of Resurrection Day because each of the gospel writers tell the story so differently, sometimes with contradictory details.

For more than 130 years, whiskey has come to age inside brick walls and the wooden rows of support in Warehouse C. Nearly 24,000 white oak barrels stretch deep into the darkness, stacked to the ceiling and carefully placed to create a specific taste profile.

Craig Anderson was left out to dry in stretches of the third period, while Tuukka Rask blanked the Senators for nearly 70 minutes after giving up the first two goals of the game.

Starting on both lines for De La Salle, Tagaloa helped propel an offense that aver - aged nearly 350 rushing yards a game, and anchored a defense that featured a nine - game stretch in which the first team unit did not surrender a touchdown.

He held the lead at The Players last year on Sunday and nearly took home the first prize in that $ 10 million purse, but stumbled down the stretch and had to settle for a fourth - place finish and $ 440,000.

As the sheikh's regular rider, he will get the mount whenever Arazi races in Europe — Valenzuela will be aboard in the U.S. — and at 12:45 p.m., less than three hours before the Omnium, Cauthen, the 31 - year - old American expatriate who won the 1978 Triple Crown on Affirmed before settling in England, jogged nearly 500 meters up the Saint - Cloud stretch and around the last turn, getting a feel for the turf.

It's uncanny how there always seems to be one stretch during each season when nearly every team fighting for a bid takes a loss simultaneously.

I'm struggling right now with what to do - I was quite happy to let my 4 month old suck himself to sleep and would happily let him come into our bed, he always sleeps better there & I don't believe in «training» babies to fit in with our schedules... However, from being a «good sleeper» he's now nearly 5 months and his sleep has deteriorated to a 2 or 3 hr stretch, then he's up every 45mins / 1 hr or so throughout the night - not fully awake but crying for a feed to get back to sleep.

In the year and a half that they've been open, Cloth for a Cause has expanded from one little chapter in Prince George to fourteen stretching across Canada.And they've helped nearly 150 families get their babies in cloth!

If you're looking for an awesome, supportive wrap that's not as expensive as the German woven wraps, but with a similar supportiveness and slight diagonal stretch I can highly recommend the wraps at The Portable Baby: http://www.theportablebaby.com/wrap.html Plus the material is lighter than my Didymos, so it's not nearly as hot.

I have been pumping for nearly 8 months — for a good stretch, I was getting enough milk to only have to supplement with formula periodically, later on, we had to supplement about one bottle a day.

An Amtrak plan for extensive track repairs at Penn Station calls for the closing of tracks for two long stretches — 44 days total — that would last for nearly three weeks in July and almost the entire month of August, which will cause headaches for travelers.

Constantinides called for improved safety measures on a notorious stretch of 21st Street during a speaking event that drew nearly a hundred concerned citizens.

71 % Against Player Protests During National Anthem Nearly Half Watching Less Football Mainly Because of Political Protests 55 % Say Buffalo Bills Should Punish LeSean McCoy for Sunday «Stretches» More Voters Agree with Trump's Statements than Disagree 82 % Want Less Politics During Sporting Events (Buffalo, NY)- Western New York voters overwhelmingly oppose the player protests during the national anthem that have swept the league recently, according to a recent survey released this morning of likely 2018 Western New York voters.

For nearly eight years, a stretch spanning Andrew Cuomo's entire tenure as governor, New York Democrats have found themselves in a uniquely bizarre and frustrating position: They've controlled the state Senate numerically but not practically, because of breakaway members who caucus with the Republicans.

Verizon Communications and unions representing nearly 40,000 wireline workers have reached a tentative deal to end a strike that has stretched for more than month, U.S. Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez said.

Congressman Maurice Hinchey has been representing the sprawling 22nd congressional district that stretches from Poughkeepsie to Ithaca for nearly two decades.

The political ramifications of Mangano's arrest could start with next month's competitive state Senate elections and stretch into next year's races for nearly all county and Oyster Bay town offices.

The sites announced Friday include an early black community along the Hudson Valley that served as a refuge for freed and escaped slaves, a commercial district in Utica with roots stretching back nearly 200 years, and a Catskills retreat that belonged to a 19th century businessman who made his money in soda fountains.

In 2014, he resigned from the administration and ran Mr. Cuomo's re-election campaign, a nearly eight - month stretch during which he earned as much as $ 125,000 as a consultant for COR Development and CHA Consulting, an engineering company based in Albany.

Nearly 100 hydropower dams are planned for construction along tributaries off the river's 2,700 - mile stretch, which flows through Burma, China, Vietnam, Laos, Thailand and Cambodia.

LIGO consists of two gargantuan optical instruments called interferometers, with which physicists look for the nearly infinitesimal stretching of space caused by a passing gravitational wave.

For example, the expression for happy is nearly universal: 99 percent of the time, study participants expressed happiness by drawing up the cheeks and stretching the mouth in a smiFor example, the expression for happy is nearly universal: 99 percent of the time, study participants expressed happiness by drawing up the cheeks and stretching the mouth in a smifor happy is nearly universal: 99 percent of the time, study participants expressed happiness by drawing up the cheeks and stretching the mouth in a smile.

During the 1980s he helped organize new competitions for human - powered vehicles — one notable bicycle built for two, called Vector, cruised a 40 - mile stretch of freeway at nearly the speed limit, averaging better than 50 mph.

Nearly 80 % of American women have stretch marks, and they have them for the loveliest possible reason.

As you can see my flexibility at the moment is awful but not being able to stretch for six months at nearly 50 years of age it is perhaps not to surprising that it is so bad.

The first variation of Malasana with a chair is the best for stretching three long muscle groups that run vertically, or nearly vertically, along the vertebral column.

The nearly 4 - mile - long stretch of ivory sand is made for strolling, and the weather and wave conditions can be just about perfect for swimming, kayaking, windsurfing and kitesurfing.

The first night, I was able to stretch Owen's sleep for an additional two hours and the next night, he slept nearly 9 hours!

The cast, which includes Jason Momoa as a sensitive cannibal, a nearly unrecognizable Jim Carrey as a sunburnt drifter, and Keanu Reeves as a Jim Jones - style cult leader in a Mad Max-esque desert dystopia, is similarly eccentrically utilized, for better (Reeves» smarmy menace) and for worse (Momoa's ill - advised Cuban accent, clearly stretching his range as an actor).

Part of the reason is the movie's nearly two - hour runtime, which is plagued by several long stretches where nothing funny happens, including a bizarre third act twist that comes across as being ridiculous purely for the sake of it.

Unfortunately, since he isn't the one in peril, Scheider doesn't always appear, necessitating the crew of unknown teenage actors to take center stage for long stretches, and they aren't nearly as effective.

Catching up with Academy Award nominees is a difficult proposition for movie fans, tickets cost nearly $ 10 a pop and stretching your dollar to watch nine Best Picture contenders is more than a little difficult.

«The industry has its work cut out for it to make up that nearly 5 percent deficit as we hit the home stretch of what has been an incredibly volatile box - office year.»

Overall, it's a very enjoyable watch but the runtime (at nearly two hours) seems a bit stretched for a light comedy with an over-extended highway chase scene being the main culprit.

Also in favor for The Grandmasters — Yut doi jung si (original title)-- is the fact that nearly 50 biographic performances have been nominated for acting Oscars in that same ten year stretch.

For a nearly 50 - year stretch of Academy Awards history, it seemed that the only costume designer in all of Hollywood was Edith Head.

Fans of the medium that stretched nearly seventy years to the triumphant Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs rallied around Home on the Range, believing that a glowing reception was the only way for Disney, and by extension the world, to reconsider retiring traditional methods in favor of CGI.

In is Rob Marshall (Memoirs of a Geisha, Chicago), who seems on a mission to dispense of most plotting in favor of a very basic quest story that nearly disappears for long set - piece stretches.

Ends and means are easily confused, and because effective classroom culture, when it is complete, is nearly invisible for stretches of time, some people will not see the work that goes into it; they will see teachers who don't talk to their students much about behavior and believe that the answer is not to talk about behavior much with your students.

As it turns out, that cruel, saline environment, some five feet thick at the core and stretching nearly forty - seven square miles along Interstate 80 near Utah's border with Nevada, is God - given perfection for long, mashed - pedal, automotive speed - record runs.