Sentences with phrase «times the distance traveled»

On international flights, it's eight times the distance traveled, beginning at 56,000 miles.

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The team out of the University of California, Berkeley and University College London tested how people mentally estimate distance and travel times by having 20 foreign students in London draw, in detail, the neighborhood surrounding their residence.

Because we all know that even if we're only going a short distance, if parking is tight, we definitely need to factor in more travel time.

In his written judgement Ouseley concluded that, «A taximeter, for the purposes of Section 11 of the Private Hire Vehicles (London) Act 1998, is not a device which receives GPS signals in the course of a journey, and forwards GPS data to a server located outside of the vehicle, which calculates a fare that is partially or wholly determined by reference to distance travelled and time taken, and sends the fare information back to the device.»

The goggles also track speed, vertical distance traveled and air time, which is probably what most buyers will be interested in.

The charge is based on distance travelled, duration of trip or time of day.

There is indeed a law of nature which stipulates that, when the antecedent force causing the ball's motion is X, the ball shall travel A amount of distance during B amount of time (this distance is increased or lessened by influences during the ball's motion).

There is no logical connection between force X and the distance the ball goes in B time, nor any logical connection between the distance the ball travels and the time it takes over that distance.

Suppose I have a vehicle that is capable of traveling vast distances in short periods of time, a «star ship» of sorts.

The company also restructured the way the wait staff area, bar and dining room are configured in an effort to shorten the travel time and distance between the raw food, preparation area and the final destination — the customer's table.

With each new store, Fox's Den Pizza plans out the best route that requires the least traveling distance and time, thereby reducing fuel costs.

Many producers were excited by the opportunity for this dialogue and were prepared to travel long distances, at their own time and expense, to take part in it.

Between a hectic work schedule, planning my wedding, and traveling to see my fiancé almost every other week (due to that whole long - distance business), I've been busy in a mostly great way — though I haven't been able to spend nearly as much time here as I'd like.

In the first place, tournaments are often held many miles — sometimes hundreds or thousands of miles — from where the angler lives, and he will travel that distance, take the time and pay the cost only if he can compete in a tournament.

«I see Giroud as almost like a backboard for midfield players travelling from distance to try and score goals and I think there are times when you have got to role it to the centre forward and he has to be the one that makes the difference.

Pace has skyrocketed recently (meaning a lot more miles traveled per minute, leading to more total distance per minute and also higher average speed so less time resting those legs at slow speed) and also defenses now have to be everywhere (before defense wasn't as tiring as it's now because every player didn't need to cover as much ground as they do now).

Boos resonate within the ground, there is a theory that songs get carried out of time with the distance they travel round the ground, this is not true of the simple boo.

Other players are involved in long - distance travel to S. America or Africa, expend huge energy in travel, training and playing time, then return to AFC (their wage payers) Kerry Packered or injured.

Try recording the time taken for each rider to pass the finish line and the distance travelled by each scooter.

Destination: For our first time traveling with a baby, we wanted to go somewhere within a driving distance because we weren't sure how well Jayce will do.

Next time we will try with measuring the distance travelled!

Even though we can get most any produce any time of year, the fruits and vegetables that have traveled long distances to get to us are no comparison to the foods that -LSB-...]

If you are still working out the holiday visitation schedule, be sure that the children have ample time with each parent and vary it up, from year to year if the children have to travel some distance between you and your soon - to - be ex-spouse.

We are equally excited that we get to share this wonderful part of Nashville with everyone that will travel a small or great distance to spend some time with us.

When you're on a vacation, you won't be comfortable when carrying a baby in your arms all the time, nor can you carry the stroller in you are travelling for long distances.

If you plan to travel on long distances, timing the start of your trip with naptime will help your child transition nicely from your home to your vehicle.

This travel crib goes the distance as it is safe, sitting on the floor maximizing the amount of time your baby can actually use this crib.

«In the time it takes for drivers to reach their baseline behaviour, the vehicle may have travelled some distance, depending on the speed,» commented UWE Bristol's Dr Phillip Morgan.

To test for this, I use geographical coordinates of MPs» districts [11] to calculate the distance and travel time to Westminster in: 1) minutes it takes to drive by car; 2) minutes it takes by public transport; 3) kilometres covered by car; and 4) kilometres as the crow flies.

THE EDITORS REPLY: Space is expanding, carrying objects such as galaxies and photons with it, so light travels a greater distance than a simple calculation (such as speed multiplied by time) might suggest.

Sounds at that frequency can travel long distances — useful for night - time communications.

So next time you have to work out a complex deal, the researchers say, it may be worthwhile to begin from a distance, such as when you are traveling.

It travels almost five times faster than in air, and also over much longer distances.

«Additionally, often times patients travel long distances during the night or early morning before being admitted into the hospital for elective surgery.

The tail markings reveal that it is the same humpback whale, which puzzles researchers because the over -6,000-mile trek is two times the typical seasonal journey of a whale, not to mention that it's a female; males whales are the ones who normally travel long distances.

«People think that it must have taken a long time to get anywhere, that it must have been difficult to travel long distances, but that is not true,» says archaeologist Marilee Wood, whose research focuses on the network's glass bead trade.

Because the distance from Mars to Earth was about 250 million kilometers during the mission, the one - way light travel time was a little less than 15 minutes.

«Traveling at over three times the speed of sound to a distance of around 360,000 feet above the Earth's surface, experience weightlessness and enjoy the breathtaking view.»

But she's baffled by how free radicals — which have very short lifetimes and travel short distances — could reach the nucleus of even adjacent cells in time to inflict DNA damage.

Long - distance travel can affect specific — and at times, crucial — baseball skills such as pitching and base running, a new study finds.

«We have a view of how diseases spread in the medieval times, and it is often said that the modern world is completely different as we have long distance high volume air travel.

Previous research on the pandemic found that environmental factors, timing of the end school holidays, population sizes and air travel contributed to its spread, but this new research has found that transmission occurred primarily over short distances and that school age children may have catalysed the spread.

According to this new analysis, school - age children accelerated the spread of the pandemic, which was transmitted over short distances, in contrast with widespread reports at the time linking the pandemic to international air travel and population density.

In 1983, for example, the platinum - iridium bar that described the length of the meter yielded to a new benchmark: A meter is now defined as the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299, 792,458 second (a second being the time it takes an atom of cesium - 133 to vacillate 9,192,631,770 times between the two hyperfine levels of its ground state).

They came up with the Merton mean speed theorem, which holds that the distance a uniformly accelerating body travels in a given interval of time is the same distance it would travel if it were moving at a constant velocity (with that constant velocity being the average of the accelerating body's initial and final velocity).

Researchers not only looked at the time of day, but how far in advance the reservation was made as well as the distance the consumer was traveling to his or her destination.

Levy flights make tiny steps most of the time but sometimes take gigantic jumps, such that on any time scale, most of the distance has been traveled in just one hop.

Certainly by our current understanding there is very little chance of circumventing the enormous problems of energy, distance and time involved in interstellar travel, as Geraint Lewis writes (26 November 2016, p 20).

At the time of the observations, the asteroid was traveling away from the Earth, so its distance varied from 1.3 million to 1.6 million kilometers, or about three - and - a-half to four times the distance from the Earth to the Moon.

By the time they travel enormous distances across space and reach Earth, however, the disturbances are only about one - thousandth the width of the smallest atomic nucleus, making them fiendishly difficult to detect.