Sentences with phrase «than a country mile»

The convenience of having an unlimited selection of anything you ever want to read right at your fingertips beats crawling in your car and standing in line by much farther than a country mile.

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And it's likely that the Sinaloa cartel is driving much of that production: In 2014, it is believed that the production of opium increased 50 % in Mexico, and in Guerrero state, a hotbed for heroin production, farmers and officials told The New York Times that the trade is controlled by the Sinaloa cartel — whose opium and marijuana fields in the country reportedly cover 23,000 miles, an area larger than Costa Rica.

With nearly 2.5 million miles of oil, gas and chemical pipelines crisscrossing the country, intrusions into control systems could do more than disrupt deliveries, said Andrew R. Lee, a cybersecurity expert at the law firm Jones Walker in New Orleans.

Flying across country puts more than two tons of CO2 into the atmosphere — like driving 7,500 miles.

It is better than its store - bought counterpart by a country mile!

Spanning nine South American countries and 2.7 million square miles (4.35 sq km), the Amazon is the world's largest forest and is home to more than 120 indigenous groups and one in 10 known species.

There are over 90 miles of bicycle trails and more than 20 additional miles throughout Temecula Valley Southern California Wine Country.

Sonoma County, located only 30 miles north of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, provides a genuine, independent, and adventurous Wine Country experience, featuring more than 425 wineries, 100 - plus organic farms, and 50 miles of stunning Pacific coast.

As I am writing this post I am more than 4000 miles away from home in a city which has four time more residents than the country I come from - New York City!

AKB's just never run out of excuses, it isn't «bad luck» when we are first on the injury ladder (by a country mile as well) EVERY SEASON, the last time i remember having a reasonable injury list was before diaby was injury prone, so whether it's down to his tactics, players diets or imcompetent staff, a 2.5 star manager wouldn't have taken more than 2 - 3 seasons to fix these problems, players join our club with amazingly good injury records (ozil) and become injry prone, players leave our club (fabregas) and are fit 2x as much as they were for us, SOMETHING IS WRONG AT ARSENAL

Petr Cech is a country mile on top of a lightyear better than Ospina.

Winston Reid was labelled «not good enough» by many on here in Jan when his stats showed he was a country mile better than Mert.

De Gea for me has been a country mile ahead this season — but then again he has probably had more practice than most.

I would love nothing better than for mesut ozil to shatter the premier league assist record, by a country mile and silence his critics!Coyg

It was a country mile offside, surely one of the officials must've seen that, as everyone else in the stadium did, and I can't see the penalty being given against any other team, so I think Wenger has a right to feel aggrieved in that sense, but the starting lineup was incomprehensible with Lacazette on the bench, the amount of opportunities we had in the first 15 mins, he surely would've put one away, and why play Coq rather than Wilshere?

Holding the best buy by a country mile and cost less than # 2 million lol.

The player was subject to international clearance being that he came from another association, which when you think about it, Newport is less than 200 miles from Manchester, but it is in a different country — Wales.

Established in 1937 as the country's first national seashore, Cape Hatteras National Seashore preserves more than 70 miles of Outer Banks coastline.

Sooner or later you're going to pass over another country, but at the Karman line, you're moving more than 17,000 miles / hr, making enforcement when the object is in your «airspace» sometimes seconds long.

In my experience, 4,000 miles across the Atlantic, people looked ten times more shocked when they saw Trump give a victory speech than when it became clear that their country had decided to leave the European Union.

Republican Doug Hoffman may be running for Congress in the North Country district of NY - 23, but he's got his sights set more than 2,400 miles to the west — in Arizona, to be exact — where a battle over immigration has been raging for months now.

New York State Canal Corporation Director Brian Stratton kicked off the tour today in the Queen City, as he joined more than 500 cyclists from around the country for the 14th annual «Cycling the Erie Canal» event, which is a 400 mile bicycling trip along the state's famous waterway.

Mozambique is among the African countries most vulnerable to climate change, with over 1,550 miles of coastline, more than half of its population living along the ocean, and cities that function as the nation's economic hubs.

The panelists emphasized the interconnectedness of the countries» ecosystems, separated by less than 100 miles of sea and situated among ocean currents that Wiley called «a veritable conveyor belt of marine life.»

I thought America was a country where everyone traveled around, but to my amazement, a lot of the people I met told me they had never driven more than 10 miles from their town.

The country had already been on edge following the volcano's initial eruption this past weekend, spewing hot ash, gas and smoke into the air for several days, forcing the evacuation of more than 4,200 residents and leading to the death of a 92 - year - old woman who suffered a heart attack aboard a navy boat as she was being taken to Puerto Montt, about 125 miles (200 kilometers) north of the volcano.

The study — the largest ever conducted on the African forest elephant — includes the work of more than 60 scientists between 2002 and 2011, and an immense effort by national conservation staff who spent a combined 91,600 days surveying elephants in 5 countries (Cameroon, Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon and the Republic of Congo), walking over 13,000 kilometers (more than 8,000 miles) and recording over 11,000 elephant dung piles for the analysis.

That number has since fallen by more than two thirds, to less than 2,500 square miles in 2011, which is the lowest rate of destruction since the country began keeping records in the late 1980s.

B - Cycle, the company that designs the bike - sharing systems used in Denver and more than 20 other cities across the country, says that on all of its systems combined, 2.1 million bike trips covering 4.5 million miles have been made on its bicycles since 2010, all of which have offset more than 2,948 metric tons of CO2 emissions and saved more than 330,000 gallons of gasoline, B - Cycle spokeswoman Marina Marich said.

This month alone, more than 20 countries have submitted claims for continental shelf areas stretching beyond their 200 - nautical - mile exclusive economic zones.

Over the past 35 years, Dr. Bland has traveled more than six million miles teaching more than 100,000 health care practitioners in the USA, Canada, and 50 other countries about Functional Medicine.

If you don't feel ready or able to travel right across the country, select some areas in the next county or ones that live no more than fifty miles away from you.

Whether it's Kitana Kiki Rodriguez in Tangerine or Lola Kirke in Mistress America or either of the women from The Duke of Burgundy or a billion other options, there are so many women more deserving of being in the category than Jennifer Lawrence's least impressive performance in David O. Russell's worst movie by a country mile.

or a billion other options, there are so many women more deserving of being in the category than Jennifer Lawrence's least impressive performance in David O. Russell's worst movie by a country mile.

Twenty years ago, former Assembly Speaker Alan Karcher called New Jersey's fragmented infrastructure — 591 school districts, more per mile than any state in the country — «municipal madness.»

These all - inclusive group tours are indulgent affairs spanning multiple countries, thousands of miles, and more than 10 days at a time.

I should mention this was only after three sunny days and more than 500 blissful miles spent getting to know the most powerful Evora yet by hammering it down a variety of pastoral English country lanes of the narrow and sacredly curvy sort that gave birth to this Lotus and its many esteemed predecessors.

If only 100 people across the country are turned off by the Volts premium fuel requirement and they all decide to drive 35 mpg cars at 1200 miles / month then those 100 people will burn 3000 gallons / month more gas than if they were driving a Volt.

Land Rover Expedition America is more than halfway across the country, three weeks after having departed Asheville, N.C., on their 5,000 - mile route through 10 states.The team is traveling all the way...

On one particular route — nearly 100 miles through Switzerland, including country roads, highways and some city running — we managed 157 mpg at an average speed of more than 50 mph while, at times, pulling some brisk overtaking maneuvers.

You'd have to look long and hard to find a place in the country where 2 gas stations are farther than 100 miles apart.

Watch the All - New Range Rover cover thousands of miles over 18 months, with arduous tests in more than 20 countries through extremes of climate and road surfaces before finally arriving.

In fact, reporters from more than 130 countries travel thousands of miles each year to spend nearly an entire week in Las Vegas, knowing that they will leave the SEMA Show with an abundance of content that they can share with their readers.

The Velar SVR may be significantly more than the Macan Turbo or one of of the other pretenders to the SVR but pricier or not, the Range Rover will undoubtedly be miles superior to the Porsche and the other performance SUVs, especially when judged by other Land Rovers which are all class leaders my a country mile.

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It won't win any 1/4 mile drag races, but where in this overly congested country can you go more than a 1/4 mile most of the time without stopping for a red light.

More than two thousand miles of open country to cross.

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In fact, the state's population is growing at a faster rate than that of the U.S. People who live here know it's about way more than just miles of tobacco fields and dusty country roads.

Considering that VZ's wireless network stretches across the country, with its LTE network covering more than 2.4 million square miles, and the fact that the company ranks No. 1 in speed, data, and reliability tests, the chance of a newcomer to the wireless arena taking away market share is virtually nonexistent.