Sentences with phrase «than a quarter mile of»

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The Poles were poor, poorer than the Irishmen who built St. Peter's less than a quarter of a mile away, and poorer even than the Italians who erected Holy Name Parish on the opposite side of town.

It is one thing to say 200 mph in less than eight seconds, but it is quite another thing to see the dragster roaring and smoking at the starting line, look away for a moment, and then turn back to see it a quarter of a mile away.

¬ ∂ Bedraggled spectatorsshuffled along, carrying racing programs from the 140th Belmont Stakes, inwhich history was supposed to be made but instead was simply reinforced.Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner Big Brown had gone to the starting gate asthe shortest - priced favorite (1 — 4) since Spectacular Bid was 1 — 5 in 1979 andhad finished dead last in a field of nine, eased to an exhausted jog by jockeyKent Desormeaux with more than a quarter mile left in the 1 1/2 - mile race.

When the match race takes its place in racing's history books, the fundamentalists will almost inevitably give decisive weight to the circumstance mentioned by Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons elsewhere in this issue: over an off track (in patches slow) Nashua and Swaps raced together at killing early speed: five - eighths of a mile in 58 seconds, three - quarters of a mile in 1:10 2/5 — two seconds faster than Swaps's time at the same point in the Kentucky Derby over a fast track.

The new disposal site is in the eastern part of the Sound, less than a quarter of a mile out of New York waters.

«While only one other site has any public housing units in the area (33), there are more than 1,100 public housing units within a quarter mile of the East 91st St. MTS.»

Members of this class apparently ushered the dinosaurs off the evolutionary stage 65 million years ago and left a three - quarter - mile - wide hole in the Arizona desert less than 50,000 years ago.

A black hole with a mass 100 million times that of our sun, like the one in MCG -6-30-15, would have a circumference of more than 100 million miles, yet it could be rotating once every hour and three - quarters.

These youngsters also suffered from asthma at significantly higher rates — those living within a quarter of a mile from a freeway had an 89 percent higher risk of asthma than kids more than a mile away.

A black holewith a mass 100 million times that of our sun, like the one inMCG -6-30-15, would have a circumference of more than 100 million miles, yet it could be rotating once every hour and three - quarters.

Indeed, Stars B and C are separated by only some 0.008 AU, around three quarters of a million miles (more than one million km) or about three times the distance between the Earth and its Moon.

In all of these ways, they are miles better than three - quarters of the state standards they replaced — standards that hardly deserved the name and that often pushed the left - wing drivel that Common Core haters say they abhor.

In addition, highly rated teachers who agree to switch to a struggling school located more than a quarter of a mile from a Metro stop will be eligible for free transportation via chauffeur - driven limousine, although Klotz cautioned that budget constraints might mean several teachers would need to share one limo.

After nearly 550 miles, the fuel gauge still showed more than a quarter of a tank of diesel remaining.

Dodge says this Challenger will run the quarter mile in less than 13 seconds and reach a top speed of 182 mph.

With the complete setup affixed the car is capable of more than 600 - horsepower and a quarter - mile time of 10.97 seconds in initial testing, according to Ford.

The 5566 - lb GL450 went around the two - mile course in two minutes and thirty - six seconds, faster than about three - quarters of its competitors.

The 2015 Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat is 0.2 second quicker in the quarter mile than its Challenger brother, despite — or really, because of — its extra 100 pounds.

Upgraded with an amalgam of parts plucked from Ford's Performance Parts catalogue, Ford hopes the Cobra Jet will dispatch the quarter - mile in less than 9 seconds, clocking speeds in excess of 150mph in the process.

Other stand - out figures include an 11.6 sec quarter - mile (at 128mph) and a set of third - gear times which show every 20mph increment from 40 - 60mph to 80 - 100mph takes no more than 2.0 sec.

[5][6][7] The 0 to 60 mph time of the second generation VR - 4 was faster than that of the Toyota Supra Twin Turbo, and the quarter mile times of both were very similar with the Supra Twin Turbo having a higher trap speed.

OUR LONG - TERM PACIFICA EARNED its stripes this quarter, racking up more than 7000 miles and spoiling a lot of kids along the way.

Ford has announced it is readying its most powerful Mustang ever, insisting it will be capable of running the quarter - mile in the mid-eight-second bracket with a terminal speed of more than 241km / h.

Steering is precise, handling is crisp and while not ready for the quarter - mile track, acceleration is more than adequate to keep you in the flow of traffic, including highway travel.

The Stingray's 0 - 60 performance is 0.1 - second quicker than the previous six - speed automatic, contributing to a quicker quarter - mile elapsed time of 11.9 seconds — a 0.1 - second improvement over the six - speed auto.

That means it's capable of sprinting to 60 miles per hour (96 kilometers per hour) in less than three seconds, and the quarter mile in under 10 seconds with drag radials at the rear.

At least some of this suggests Source Interlink is probably more concerned about appealing to advertisers and other commercial interests that can improve their revenue line than acknowledging the realities of «insignificant metrics» like lap times at Leguna Seca, quarter - mile times, braking distances, etc. when evaluating high performance automobiles.

«Shuttle» is the operative word: We logged more than 6,000 miles in the first quarter, many of those coming from an editor delivering the car from the West Coast to Detroit.

All of these changes add up to the fastest production quarter - mile drag car ever — more rapid than any Ferrari or Lamborghini or anything else.

On the first leg of the trip I filled up 1 time after 485 miles (and the tank still had a little less than a quarter tank).

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.

Performance with the Duramax / Allison combination is also improved over previous models, with preliminary testing showing 0 - 60 mph times of less than 9 seconds and quarter - mile times of less than 16 seconds in 2500HD models.

0 - 60 MPH happens in less than five seconds, with a launch mode enabled quarter - mile elapsed time in the mid-thirteens and a top speed of 160 MPH.

The 6.1 liter shaves more than half a second off of that time, and runs the quarter mile in the 13 - second range — very impressive for such a heavy car.

But this was not just any 718, this was the new 718 GTS, with more power, more torque, quicker 0 - 60 and quarter - mile times and more appearance and trim items than the walk - in closet of your last trophy spouse.

The vehicle's power and capable chassis topped our track testing, posting an impressive 0 -60-mph time of just 4.9 seconds and an elapsed quarter - mile time of 13.3 seconds at an incredible 108.8 mph, besting the closest competitor by more than 3 seconds and 23 mph.

The basic vehicle policy from the AA * costs # 39 a year and covers breakdowns which are more than a quarter of a mile from your home.

It covers breakdowns when you're more than a quarter of a mile from your home, towing your vehicle back to the garage and includes 24 - hour assistance.

Once in the marine park, dolphins — who in their natural habitat swim about 40 miles a day and can dive to depths of more than a quarter of a mile — spend the rest of their lives in a concrete pool.

In the afternoon, we'll take to the treetops along one of South America's longest canopy walkways, an extraordinary network of hanging bridges, towers, and platforms stretching more than a quarter mile above the jungle.

[260][261][262] Larger than the slide that blocked the highway in 1983 at Julia Pfeiffer Burns State park, it covered one - quarter - mile -LRB-.40 km) of the highway and buried it up to 80 feet (24 m) deep in some places.

We did a short hike on a place a local told us about called Judd Trail, which was no more than a quarter of a mile to a waterfall.

Located in the heart of Hong Kong's financial and commercial district, the 33 - story Lan Kwai Fong Hotel @ Kau U Fong is a quarter - km (less than a half - mile) from SoHo.

So you're essentially paying $ 95 for 40,000 AAdvantage miles (less than a quarter of cent per mile).

Though it's tempting to stay at the villa from sunrise to sunset — both of which can be viewed from the terrace — the village and nearest beach are both less than a quarter - mile away on foot.

North Michigan Avenue, home of the Magnificent Mile, is less than a quarter of a mile from this property.

For example, the Bronx is the third most heavily populated county in the United States, but even with this density, almost a quarter of the land is green space and parkland — a much greater ratio of green space to square miles than the other four boroughs of New York City.

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) has reported that more than three - quarters of African - Americans live within 30 miles of a coal - fired power plant.

The developers of Boulfruich Windfarm near Dunbeath have evidently complained that plans by Caithness Power to build four larger wind turbines less than a mile away at Latheronwheel will cut their electricity production by a quarter — and have lodged an official objection to the new site.

«[Fifteen] per cent of the UK's carbon dioxide emissions come from cars, and a quarter of our car journeys are less than two miles long», states Brenda Boardman of Oxford's Environmental Change Institute (6).