Sentences with phrase «stretches for hundreds»

This fun and inviting area is simply beyond compare when it comes to enjoying a tropical paradise and a coastline that stretches for hundreds of miles.

As part of the Mesoamerican Reef system, the second - largest in the world, the Belize Barrier Reef stretches for hundreds of miles.

Some stretch for hundreds of miles.

It stretched for hundreds of kilometres, was visible for several hours and remained in the same place, although the clouds around it were moving.

Harrison's model can explain features of the Universe that have stumped cos - mologists, such as huge chains of galaxies that stretch for hundreds of millions of light years.

Fanned by winds that shifted suddenly to the east, the fallout plume spread high levels of radioactivity over an area that stretched for hundreds of kilometers and included several inhabited islands.

There are big wrecks, big fish and big reefs that stretch for hundreds of miles.

With a stunning coastline stretching for hundreds of kilometres, fertile farm country and wineries aplenty, there's lots for foodies and wine lovers.

With a stunning coastline stretching for hundreds of kilometres, fertile farmland, celebrated restaurants and wineries, there's lots for foodies and wine lovers to get excited about.

A second thing to notice is that when one of the larger «grandfather» trees dies, and eventually falls, is that the deadfall, which for all of the world resembles a train wreck with sections of trunk the size of railcars stretching for hundreds of feet across the forest floor, can persist in this slowly decaying state for hundreds of years.

They have documented droughts that stretched for hundreds of years, dated historic earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, and found in trees around the world evidence of how the planet cooled and then started warming.

Not exact matches

With the line stretching around the block, hundreds of people waited for over two hours to buy Mega Millions lottery tickets.

We did the same show for months at a time, playing until every aspect of the performance was right, and then changing the show again and performing in hundreds of new shows again for long stretches.

The different countries and aid organizations» resources are already stretched to a breaking point and failing to find accommodation for the hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants coming to Europe.

Allusion is actually quite common; in ordinary speech and conversation, we can not do without it, for if everything mentioned were immediately glossed, a single page of text would stretch into hundreds of pages and assertion would be forever deferred.

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

The campaign, through e-mail and online advertising, mobilized tens of thousands to drive hundreds of miles to volunteer for the candidate in states stretching from Washington to Florida.

Next to a field of walnut trees near the university, a row of tall shrubs planted by the researchers stretches for several hundred yards: western redbud, coffeeberry, gum plant, sage, coyote brush.

Jets of energy and matter, whose formations remain a mystery, can stretch away from the accretion disk for hundreds of thousands of light - years.

Their analysis concluded that whale body length had varied randomly for about 30 million years before making a leap to more than 10 meters between 4.5 million and hundreds of thousands of years ago — a stretch of time that straddles the Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs, commonly referred to as the Plio - Pleistocene — which was more recent than previous research suggested.

That puts N. nakayamai in the right geographic place, along a trajectory of hominid evolution that stretches for several hundred miles in eastern Africa.

Beyond hair care, shea butter is well know as an ingredient in hundreds of DIY beauty recipes, and as one of the most powerful natural treatments for stretch marks and scars.

A hundred and twenty sedentary older individuals not having dementia were randomly put in 1 of 2 groups, individuals who started an exercise program of walking on a track for forty minutes each day, 3 days per week, or individuals restricted to stretching and toning exercises.

Back - lit flickering LCD screens offer a terrible immersive reading experience as anything from a five hundred - page treatise to a 200 - page spy novel are equally unpleasant on an LCD screen for long stretches of time.

Not only is The Last Child told from multiple perspectives, but the voices truly challenged me: a thirteen - year - old boy traumatized after the disappearance of his twin sister yet still innocent enough to believe in magic, the boy's grief - stricken, drug - addicted mother, a three - hundred - pound escaped convict with the mind of an innocent and the voice of God in his head... I had to stretch for these.

In Washington, this meant that major meeting space was taken over in a downtown hotel, hundreds of counselors set up shop and the line of concerned borrowers hoping for help stretched out the door and waited patiently for their turn.

Here on a small stretch of protected land, the former owners of a nearby mansion had planted a grove of eucalyptus trees, which is now the Heron and Cormorant Rookery, a nesting ground for hundreds of great blue herons and great and snowy egrets.

Those who are adventurous enough (and most aren't), may even happen upon the mythical white waterfalls where every rock and cliff is white and water cascades from every angle for a stretch of several hundred meters, ending with a natural waterslide into a swimming pool.

Manta Ray Diving Safaris In Krabi: The totally submerged site at Hin daeng stretches for more than 200 meters in length and in some places is less than 20 meters in width and is located just a few hundred meters north of Hin Daeng.

Hyderabad was heaving, literally hundreds of thousands of people crammed along narrow streets, vying with bikes and taxis for a tiny stretch of path to walk along.

With hundreds of offshore islands and a long stretch of the world's second - biggest barrier reef, Belize is a paradise for snorkeling.

Travel hackers who know how to stretch their miles may have other travel cards in their wallets, but we prioritize convenience and flexibility for the majority of cardholders instead, especially when one misstep can result in paying thousands of dollars in interest just to earn hundreds of dollars in travel rewards.

If you're anything like me, the grand total of your saves for Skyrim stretch into hundreds of hours - possibly even thousands - from 2011 all the way up to 2017.

I know if I had a spare hundred bucks, it wouldn't take any stretch to get me to buy most of the SNES VC games available for the New3DS.

For Jue Chang — Fifty Strokes to Each (1998), Chen stretched animal skins over the flat surfaces of more than one hundred chairs and beds collected from different parts of the world, creating makeshift drums hung from a large wooden frame.

After this three - hundred - year stretch, the buses took off for private collection visits, while I stopped into Mai 36 Galerie for the opening of Matt Mullican's «Who Feels the Most Pain in the Five Worlds,» a show that brought out Roe Ethridge, Ann Goldstein, and Christopher Williams, who was fresh from a daily swim in the lake.

Painful to hear, but also a stretch, as Fischl occupies that one hundred - thousandths strata of artists who still sell for six or seven figures.

The Alexandria King Street Arts Festival stretches for blocks and includes hundreds of submissions: paintings, sculptures, jewelry, photographs, ceramics, and more.

Searching for green information and getting the results you want without having to try a hundred different keyword combinations saves time and — let's stretch this as far as it can go — energy thanks to less time on the computer.

The biggest challenge in moving to 100 % renewables by 2030 could be «stretching the cultural and operational limits of a utility that has been operating independently for a hundred years.

What's truly remarkable when you think about it is how all these self - regulating heat engines work together to produce such a remarkably stable climate that sometimes persists in more or less the same steady with no major perturbations for tens and hundreds of millions of years at a stretch.

It shoved sub-surface temperature anomalies into an extreme range of 6 degrees Celsius above average at a depth of 90 - 130 meters over an equatorial zone stretching out for hundreds of miles.

This wasteful fishing gear stretches for 30 miles on average — a length equal to 528 football fields, dangling hundreds of baited hooks.

The physics of flight dictates that you need an exceptional amount of fuel to launch hundreds of thousands of pounds into the air and keep it moving for hours at a stretch.

Bungie has already stated emphatically that developing Destiny for the PC would stretch the studio's hundreds of millions of dollars in resources too thin, but the development studio cited fairness, instead of workload, when it ruled out cross-gen, cross-platform play for Destiny.