Sentences with phrase «stretching for thousands»

This gigantic country has coastline stretching for thousands and thousands of miles, catering to every different type of ocean vacation one could possibly need.

They found a huge area stretching for thousands of light years from the Milky Way's core that had very few Cepheids.

Unseen by its minions, it holds sway over the billions of solar systems that stretch for thousands of light years beyond.

These clumps of dust and ice feature amazing tails that can stretch for thousands of miles.

Not exact matches

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.

* Someone * has been fighting someone for this inhospitable stretch of semi-desert for many thousands of years.

For presidential campaigns that are already maintaining social networking profiles on several sites, adding a few extras probably isn't going to stretch resources much — national campaigns can pick up extra supporters a few thousand here or a few thousand there, and they're going to be looking at plenty of different niches, online and off.

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.

The simulations showed that the scoured area would stretch for perhaps thousands of kilometers from the impact point, consistent with the swirling streaks that extend across the Moon's surface.

The twisting, swirling streaks of bright soil stretch, in some cases, for thousands of miles across the lunar surface.

Such a dynamic perspective makes God's creative involvement all the more majestic, magnificent, and personal, stretching over millions, and indeed billions of years, even as, for God, «a thousand years are like a watch in the night.»

But NGC 4696 has sprouted something never seen on another galaxy: a huge swirl of dust that stretches for tens of thousands of light - years and whips back around like a question mark.

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.

For thousands of years, runoff from the vast stretch of the continent between the Rockies and the Appalachians had flowed into the Mississippi valley.

The tough adhesive also maintained its stability and bonding when implanted into rats for two weeks, or when used to seal a hole in a pig heart that was mechanically inflated and deflated and then subjected to tens of thousands of cycles of stretching.

We can not see that directly, because they are so far away and have been flying apart for only a few thousand years — since the stretching during creation week.

It deliberately poisons a portion of the natural world for an endless stretch of time and in doing so it not only leaves future generations with thousands of tons of the most dangerous rubbish imaginable on their hands but makes it as difficult as the state of our technology permits for them to deal with it.

There are so many amazingly beautiful wedding dresses out there, but not every one's budget can stretch to the Thousands of pounds that many designers ask for their stunning dresses.

While the movie includes narration (by Charles Osgood) drawn from the book, it also allows the stars opportunity for topical pop - cultural references as well as narrative detours, as when the mayor goes in for a Who - Root Canal «Sticking» «Who» in front of everything,» he gripes, «doesn't make it hurt less») or Horton's clover lands in a field of clovers, whereupon he sets out to locate his speck - adorned lower out of the thousands stretching before him.

This time, Scott has devised an epic framework for the rematch, stretching across large chunks of the universe and thousands of years of history.

With a thin, bumpy, winding ribbon of asphalt stretching for mile after mile through the countryside, bordered by hedges, lush grass and thousands of trees, the Ring was a racetrack at one with nature.

Developed from Petmate's experience traveling thousands of miles with pets, the See & Extend features a side pop - out compartment to give dogs and cats room to stretch and mesh «windows» for ventilation and visibility.

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.

Puerto Rico announced last week that it is open for business, with many of the hotels in the popular coastal stretch in and around San Juan up and running and thousands of restaurants now operating.

For thousands of years, the ancient Maya ruled over Central America with a vast empire stretching from El Salvador in the south to Mexico in the north.

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.

For the last week, thousands of New York art followers have been paying their first visits to the Whitney Museum of American Art's hospitable new home and its history - stretching inaugural exhibition, the largest ever of works from its permanent collection.

When we mention the extinction of the human species we need to account for the time frame — which stretches several thousands years.

They can be fuelled on anything - uranium, plutonium, thorium, nuclear waste - and can stretch supplies for thousands of years.

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.

Let it therefore be noted that the magnitude of this hypothetical conspiracy would need to encompass many thousands of uncontroversial publications and respected scientists from around the world, stretching back through Arrhenius and Tyndall for almost 150 years.

However, it is a bigger stretch to see Roku building a robust developer community that would build thousands of third - party apps for the ecosystem.