Sentences with phrase «thousands of miles up»

Thousands of miles up in the air or the middle of the deep seas, passengers have little support other than that of a stewardess.

There are thousands of miles up for grabs for new customers.

We hauled everything from groceries to truck parts and logged thousands of miles up and down the West Coast.

The temperature in the chromosphere rises from 6,000 K / 10, 340 F / 5, 272 C at the surface of the sun to about 20,000 K / 35,540 F / 19, 730 C. It's an area that's constantly in motion, with different temperatures of hot material mixed over a range of heights, stretching from the sun's surface to many thousands of miles up.

Not exact matches

Someone who has racked up thousands of miles with an airline gets to skip the lines, enjoy the lounge and check baggage for free.

Your mind could have drifted thousands of miles away, but as long as your body showed up to work at Dallas - based tax firm Ryan, that was all that mattered.

After a 1,900 - mile bus ride, he ended up in Swift Current, a town of fifteen thousand people.

Some travel credit cards have no bonus at all, but the best travel rewards cards offer bonuses of up to 100,000 miles or points, sometimes worth thousands of dollars in free travel.

Bootstrap ecommerce: Not to get too philosophical here, but the quote about a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step sums up the approach to shipping for new ecommerce store owners.

Opening up your company's recruiting to candidates who may live hundreds or thousands of miles away from your home office may also have real financial benefits, she said.

His ability to compute numbers without the aid of a computer or calculator, the skill to measure up a person's character from thousands of miles away, and the rational approach to investment and business may never be found in one person again.

We kept building our steeples higher until emissions streamed to thousands of miles away, but distant lakes spit up frogspawn & fish, so we built our steeples higher until — though at first we couldn't tell — emissions circled the globe to snow & rain

We kept building our steeples higher until emissions streamed to thousands of miles away, but distant lakes spit up frogspawn &....

Or perhaps your were thousands of miles away from home, in an orphanage, and caretakers entered a room carrying a child you had only seen in photographs up to that moment.

I think there are many «home» supporters who have followed the club whilst clocking up thousands of miles.

A glacier is made up of thousands of tons of ice which is layered in sheets and covers miles and miles.

Tedra Cobb, a former St. Lawrence County lawmaker, wrapped up a two - day, 450 - mile tour of New York's 21st Congressional District on Monday, and is scheduled to submit what her campaign said was «thousands of petition signatures» in Albany on Tuesday.

Also on the list are 67 planets roughly the size of Earth, give or take a thousand miles or so in radius; 288 «super-Earths» up to twice Earth's diameter; 662 Neptune - size planets; and 184 giants rivaling or exceeding Jupiter in size.

The idea is to expand the grid from the top down by adding thousands of miles of robust new transmission lines, while enhancing communication from the bottom up with electronics enabling millions of homes and businesses to optimize their energy use.

This digital cornucopia will most likely include a wealth of data about many thousands of Kuiper belt objects orbiting up to tens of billions of miles from the sun and almost certainly will include objects that once again contradict ideas about where the edge of the solar system is.

When a mile - wide tornado roared through Joplin, Mo., it killed 158 people and injured thousands, and it also kicked up toxic remnants from the city's industrial past that are still haunting its residents on the third anniversary of the disaster

Plastics can travel thousands of miles, caught up in the «great oceanic garbage patches», or eventually being washed up on distant beaches.

The tsunami crashed down — in seemingly slow motion, due to the low gravity — and then rushed across hundreds of thousands of square miles of plains and up into highlands.

Another colleague's engagement broke up in part because they weren't willing to relocate together; she wanted to be near her family, and he wanted to be near his — and their families were thousands of miles apart.

The 20 - mile trip took more than two days, leading mules, professors and students 3,000 feet up and over a high alpine plateau and down several thousand feet into a valley, where they slowly weaved their way along a river in the direction of a boulder field until they finally reached the glacier's base.

David Reich from the Harvard Medical School, who worked with Svante Paabo on the study, says that the fact that Denisovan genes ended up so far south suggests they were widespread across Eurasia: «These populations must have been spread across thousands and thousands of miles,» he told BBC News.

They are just tiny bits of rock, usually smaller than a garden pea, burning up as they crash into Earth's atmosphere at speeds of thousands of miles per hour.

tectonic plates Gigantic slabs — some spanning thousands of kilometers (or miles) across — that make up Earth's outer layer.

I took up mountain biking in 2012 and since then I have logged thousands of miles and also won a few races.

The nation - wide sites have members living in every corner of the country, which means there are thousands of users for you to choose from, but the trick with sites like these is to set up your geographical preferences to within a 100 - mile radius so you don't find yourself in a long - distance relationship.

Conversations are easy to strike up with regularity and it's easy to discover that you have strong feelings for someone who lives hundreds or thousands of miles away from you!

Why did I sign up for an online dating site that encourages relationships with a woman thousands of miles away?

What It's About: «A 5 - year - old Indian boy takes a wrong train and ends up thousands of miles away from home, where he is adopted by an Australian couple.

We meet Cheryl Strayed (she made up the last name) as she embarks on hiking a thousand miles of the PCT.

Being bound to move away to Tokyo after the summer, thousands of miles and 12 years of time do not stop Rebecca (now played by Eva Green at her most beautiful and detached) and Tommy (Matt Smith) from picking up right where they left off.

The government is to stump up thousands of pounds in travel costs to send children from a closing university technical college to another 20 miles away, according to...

It was ready to hit the road and so was I, with a supply of caffeine in the back seat ample enough to keep a small child up for days on end, a Spotify account to keep me entertained through thousands of miles of featureless farmland, and the M2's 360 - hp turbocharged straight - six engine constantly willing to park my butt in a rural jail for flagrant disregard for speed limits.

Fuel injectors clog when deposits build up over time and thousands of miles; when that happens, they don't deliver the fine mist of gas that provides maximum performance and efficiency.

«Cautious» sums up my approach to the first couple of thousand miles.

It covers the parts and labor, less deductible, to repair thousands of key parts for up to the earlier of 8 years or 150,000 miles.

The new Corvette Stingray and Cadillac CTS models may be racking up all kinds of prestigious honors in their homeland, but several thousand miles away, it remains to be seen if that hardware will pay off in the form of increased sales in Japan.

Coverage provided for covered components on vehicles up to a maximum of one hundred thousand (100,000) miles at time of contract purchase only.

The ARB springs and Nitrocharger shocks didn't beat up the driver or passenger even when crossing thousands of dunes and miles upon miles of uneven roads.

I know I've only had my car a short while but I am already finding that it is «loosening» up nicely, acceleration and fuel economy have both improved now that I have a couple of thousand miles under my belt.

With fewer than a thousand miles on the odometer, this truck lines up eagerly against competing models, delivering the perfect blend of power, safety and flair!

It's also nicely built and feels solidly put together, which should alleviate any concerns that it'll start squeaking and rattling once the car's racked up several tens of thousands of miles on the clock.

Thousands of miles away from his native country, in the United States, the General sets up the «Fraternity of Former Soldiers of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam,» an organization that supposedly helps veterans but secretly serves as front for a movement that is planning to retake Vietnam.

And thousands of miles away in Bangkok, someone farther up the supply chain is about to make a phone call that will put all their lives at risk.

Discover how you can rack up thousands of airline miles without ever leaving the ground.

If you have good to excellent credit, you could nab tens of thousands of reward miles by signing up for a new rewards credit card.