Sentences with phrase «tenth of a mile»

Somehow, Soleri is confident, there will be a financial breakthrough; someone will give the equivalent of the cost of a bomber or a tenth of a mile of city freeway, and then Arcosanti will rapidly take shape.

Heading the list of hardware is an Omega computer, a space - age navigational system that locks on seven transmitters located around the world and is accurate to within one - tenth of a mile in 5,000.

Under the rule the penalty would be raised from $ 5.50 to $ 14.00 for every tenth of a mile per gallon.

The town of Lloyd will supervise the first piece of the work, extending the trail 7 - tenths of a mile west, including tunneling under South Riverside Road to an existing but unused railroad path.

Just hours earlier the two simultaneously had rallies about three tenths of a mile apart.

The $ 15 million gondola will leave from Gate 10 on the fairgrounds» west side and run seven - tenths of a mile north to the amphitheater.

It has covered about nine - tenths of a mile (1.5 kilometers) in 23 driving days and brought the mission's odometer tally up to 4.9 miles (7.9 kilometers).

It had been difficult to pinpoint their location over the rising wind, but it seemed as if they were moving along a benchland one - tenth of a mile east of us.

Scientists had issued a warning to residents last week after lava crept to within a mile (1.6 km) of the outer edge of a forest reserve that sits a tenth of a mile (160 meters) from some of the estimated 30 to 50 homes in the subdivision, and said lava could reach the subdivision within roughly a week.

When Bryan finally reached the site this February, he found that the new island — originally over a tenth of a mile square — had already nearly washed away.

The area of ground visible in the images is about six - tenths of a mile (1 kilometer) across.

It takes about a tenth of a mile for the reality of that stiff frame to translate to your tailbone.

Perhaps with fuel prices currently low, respondents saw little need for tangential devices that kick up mpg by a tenth of a mile per gallon or so, such as active grille shutters or solar - panel glass roofs.

The SE and XLE are more expensive and heavier, so eking out every last tenth of a mile per gallon isn't the priority.

Checked every drop of gas to tenths of miles.

The available 3,650 feet of snow — seven - tenths of a mile — isn't enough.

Animal Emergency Clinic of Cary 462-8989 220 High House Road Cary, NC They are located approximately one tenth of a mile west of Old Apex Road.

The western, and largest island of this group, is two miles (3 km) long by six tenths of a mile wide, and rises to a peak of 930 feet (280 m).

The fine - mesh green fence zigzags about four - tenths of a mile, from the south coast to the north on Oahu's westernmost spit of land.

When ExxonMobil's Pegasus pipeline ruptured on March 29, the company announced that no oil had leaked into Lake Conway, a major recreational reservoir just nine - tenths of a mile from the spill site in central Arkansas.

The towers would be so huge, their blades rising 500 feet above the water's surface, that they would be separated by seven - or eight - tenths of a mile, and thus would cover 270 square miles.

The aforementioned battery gauge tracks your remaining charge in mileage down to the tenth of a mile, and you can watch as the regenerative braking adds distance to the meter as you coast down hills.

Bankrate gathered insurance quotes online from three leading insurers using two sample home addresses — separated by as little as three - tenths of a mile — in neighboring ZIP codes.

Round the miles and tenths of miles to the nearest mile.

Not exact matches

The test vehicle only reached 70 miles per hour, a tenth of the company's eventual target speed.

After skewering the proposed system («one of the most expensive per mile and one of the slowest in the world»), Musk issued an open - source design challenge: a 28 - passenger solar - powered pod capable of levitating through a system of tubes almost at the speed of sound, with a one - way ticket price of $ 20 and a total building cost estimated at $ 6 billion, less than a tenth of the budget for California's high - speed rail project.

At the peak of Israel's kingdom, during Solomon's reign, they only had 30,000 square miles, one tenth of what God promised them.

He has run a quarter - mile relay lap (with a flying start) in 45.4 — six - tenths of a second under the world record.

The 90,000 - square - foot facility at 11351 W. 159th St. offers a climbing wall, a fitness center with 130 pieces of cardiovascular and free weight equipment, a one - tenth - mile indoor track, golf cages and activities such as indoor soccer, basketball, volleyball, gymnastics, and aerobics.

Comet C / 2013 A1, also known as comet Siding Spring, will pass within about 87,000 miles (139,500 kilometers) of the Red Planet — less than half the distance between Earth and our moon and less than one - tenth the distance of any known comet flyby of Earth.

A one - ounce piece can be beaten into a translucent sheet five - millionths of an inch thick or drawn out into 50 miles of wire five micrometers thick — one - tenth the diameter of a human hair.

Someday, Edwards says, an entire ribbon might be devoted to the tourist trade with a hotel permanently affixed at 8,700 miles, where there is one - tenth of Earth's gravity for comfort.

It's nothing a person would notice — a reduction barely more than one - tenth of one mile per hour — but on a large scale over an entire region, such a seemingly minor change has a profound effect on climate and air quality.

For each of Rosetta's candidate sites, a larger area — four - tenths of a square mile (one square kilometer)-- was assessed.

It covers an area of 10,000 square kilometers (4,200 square miles), equal to just two - tenths of one percent of the size of the Amazon forest it feeds.

Proxima B planet orbits about 7.5 million kms (4.6 million miles) from its Proxima Centuari star (about a tenth the distance of innermost planet Mercury from the Sun).

INGLEWOOD, Calif. — In the back of a tenth - grade geometry classroom on a recent morning at Washington Preparatory High School, nine miles southeast of Los Angeles, Landon Yurica and Alycia Jones bent...

INGLEWOOD, Calif. — In the back of a tenth - grade geometry classroom on a recent morning at Washington Preparatory High School, nine miles southeast of Los Angeles, Landon Yurica and Alycia Jones bent over the papers in front of them.

Are you really trying to tell me that 470 hp isn't enough in a car that tips the scales at 4300 pounds, and that shaving a tenth of a second or so off a 0 - 60 or quarter - mile time is really worth an extra $ 12,000?

The 3.8 - second - mark comes in a tenth of second faster than the 911 S. Top speeds reach up to 190 miles per hour in the 2015 Porsche 911 GTS near Chicago IL.

An M4 with the Competition Pack will run to 60 miles per hour in 3.8 seconds with the optional seven - speed dual - clutch transmission, which is one - tenth of a second quicker than a base M4.

However, these cars use energy much more efficiently than internal combustion engine cars, and electricity costs about a tenth of what gasoline does per mile.

That results in faster acceleration at launch, faster 60 - foot times and an improvement of more than a tenth of a second in quarter - mile times, which can be an entire car length.

The 2017 911 Carrera Coupé with the Porsche - Doppelkupplung (PDK) transmission and Sport Chrono Package sprints from zero to 60 miles per hour in 4.0 seconds, two tenths of a second faster than its predecessor.

The new 911 models also boast impressive performance: the 911 Carrera Coupé with Porsche - Doppelkupplung (PDK) and Sport Chrono Package sprints from zero to 60 miles per hour in 4.0 seconds — making it two tenths of a second faster than its predecessor.

The interplay with the new 7 - speed S tronic has reduced CO2 emissions by up to 22 grams / km (35.41 g / mile) and decreased the sprint from zero to 100 km / h (62.14 mph) by three - tenths of a second.

Musk is going after other projects in Australia, and noted that the entire country could be powered by «1,890 square kilometres [730 square miles] of solar panels — roughly a tenth the area of Sydney — backed up by seven square kilometres [2.7 mi2] of batteries.»