Sentences with phrase «walk about a mile»

After parking in one of the outlying car parks and walking about a mile, we reached the Eden Project's Visitor Centre, set above the quarry where the two gigantic geodesic dome greenhouses reside.

He lets them walk about a mile to school from his house but somehow them on the bus (which drops them off a block from their friends house that they walk to school with) is bad, bad, bad.

If the MTA cuts the Bx14 bus line, which it plans to do, residents of the Country Club section of the Bronx will have to walk about a mile to access public transportation.

It also helps to «walk to work» (I walk about a mile, then go to the office to work) And it helps to have different computers for different tasks.

One day they were walking about a mile from home with their dad and the pit when another man passed by with a dog on a leash, without warning the pit attacked the dog and got a grip on its throat.

We walked about a mile from the border post, across the bridge that connects Zambia and Zimbabwe to the Zimbabwe immigration post.

Not exact matches

To achieve that, I work at a treadmill desk all day, and end up walking about eight miles each day.

Fifty minutes later, I've walked 1.2 miles, without even thinking about it — until I get an email from an acquaintance down the hall with the subject «Got ta ask»: «Are you going to be working at a treadmill desk all week?

So tell me my good fellow How someone is going to manage the equivalent of an 45 minute drive without a car or access to public transit (that would be about a 30 mile trip, so at least 10» ish hours walking for the average person or 3» ish hours on a bicycle if I recall base speeds correctly right)?

Don't even pretend like you know something about Christianity until you've walked a mile in the shoes of a Christian missionary, a Christian pastor, a military chaplain, a christian volunteer at a homeless shelter, etc..

Hypothetically speaking, what if some people flog you with a cat of 9 tails whip until you have so much flesh ripped off that you are a living, breathing, walking zombie and then make you carry a massive cross about 5 miles and then nail you to that cross?

Columnist Amy Russell explains a trip she and her friends are planning in which they will walk 7,000 miles across Africa to raise funds and awareness about the need for clean water.

He shows how we Christians have terribly misunderstood and misapplied the words of Jesus in Matthew 5:38 - 42 about turning the other cheek and walking the extra mile.

You lost me when you got up and sang on Sunday morning about not judging other people until we walked a mile in their shoes — yet denied a gay couple a chance for a happy life together.

For those who might have wondered about my physical, condition, I did have open - heart surgery in July of 1989 followed by a myocardial infarction and a second surgery all on the same day — they cleaned out the old pipes and replaced a few — but within a month of that ordeal I was walking ten miles a day, and now, in the best physical shape I have been in for years, I am running 12 miles a week, so no one need be overly concerned.

And his teaching about judging in the sermon of the mount is spelling out, what Jeremy explains here in an existential form (and so does his words about giving the other cheek, walking the second mile and so on — he explains here what should mean to hold high the law of god, and what is this other, then do the opposite what the Israelite did, when they conquered Canaan?

If they had to walk somewhere, they could only walk a maximum of 3000 feet or about 2/3 of a mile.

Then I walked on about a mile, and as soon as I was got within the city, the word of the Lord came to me again, saying: Cry, «Wo to the bloody city of Lichfield!»

But in 10 million years, you'd have walked about a million miles, or about 40 trips around the circu - mference of the earth.

One of my favorite parts of the book is the section about the Sermon on the Mount and the «third way» of turning the other cheek, walking the extra mile, and literally giving up the clothes off our backs.

Walked about 11 miles one day, from Union Square, to the waterfront.

When you're hunting your gone all day, walking for miles and interesting animals come home that you have no clue what to do with.The only good thing about this hunting trip was I did not go and the granola bars I made.

This is about a mile - ish walk on the beach or on the adventurous road from CoCo Tulum and it's the restaurant at Sanara Tulum.

I walked my dogs about 10 miles for the week.

About three miles east I stop again at a small deserted beach and walk along under walls marked «private» that ring the water around the sweeping half - mile curve that leads to the rocky point where I am headed.

No doubt like a lot of grandads the dinosaur bores the ares off the players about how things were so much harder back when he was young, how he walked miles uphill to and from school and that he could buy a new suit for a fiver.

I actually clocked my steps on a pedometer app on my phone; turns out I was walking about 3.5 miles every day, so falling asleep was not much of a problem for me in the beginning.

We ended up walking about 5 miles, 3.5 miles to the park and back, plus about 1.5 miles in the park.

It's about five miles from his home to his office, and many days he walks.

The Illinois Science Council, a nonprofit seeking to educate and entertain the public about STEM, hosts its sixth annual 3.14 - mile fun run / walk begins at 6:28 (double pi!)

I went about my normal routine (and maybe walked a few extra miles that day).

With an average of about 50 miles of walking during a 1 week Disney World trip, it makes sense to consider strollers for many kids, even some who have outgrown using them at home.

We have shared gadgets, walked many miles with the strollers, cried and laughed about it all over wine and ice cream.

Everyday I do about a six mile walk and this stroller is amazing in all weather.

Just after they're born, in the middle of the night, baby turtles walk down the beach, the equivalent of about a mile for their little legs, get in an ocean which is full of things that eat turtles, and don't come home for a year.

We have made it a point since my daughter started kindergarten to when it's not 107 degrees outside, walk to her school which is about 3/4 in a mile and then walk home with her.

I try and walk about four miles a day consistently.

In the ten weeks since they began, the ninety - seven participants taking part in the «A Better Me: Fit, Healthy and Happy» fitness program sponsored by the Oneida County Health Department have cumulatively walked the equivalent of 39 - hundred miles while learning about the benefits of proper nutrition and the prevention of diabetes and... Read more

Miliband's new year message began with an anecdote about his visit to a food bank in London, where he met a man who had walked 11 miles for a job interview.

They walked six miles from the Onondaga Nation Arena to downtown Syracuse, carrying signs about protecting water sources.

Back in South Florida, students formed an enormous heart on an athletic field at Coral Springs High School and then walked to Stoneman Douglas High School, about five miles away, where more than 1,000 students gathered.

The shootings occurred when police responded to a 911 call that a man dressed in black and armed with what appeared to be an assault - style rifle was walking near a shopping plaza about a mile from police headquarters.

Community Walking Project Enters Final Phase «Team Members Log Twenty - One Million Steps» In the ten weeks since they began, the ninety - seven participants taking part in the «A Better Me: Fit, Healthy and Happy» fitness program sponsored by the Oneida County Health Department have cumulatively walked the equivalent of 39 - hundred miles while learning about the benefits of proper nutrition and the prevention of diabetes and obesity, according to Dr. Gayle Jones, Oneida County Director of Health.

If they exert minimal energy — walking about 1.5 miles a day — the death toll jumps closer to 50 percent.

As he did every weekday since January 2010, when he was elected mayor, Sakurai strolled through the main entrance of the shopworn local government building, cheerfully greeting clerks before walking upstairs to his third - floor office overlooking a lattice of dense, squat housing stretching to the coast about seven miles away.

When analyzed together, their risk for breast cancer mortality decreased an average of 24 % per metabolic equivalent (MET) hours per day of exercise, where one MET hour equals a little less than a mile of brisk walking or about two - thirds of a mile of running.

At age 49, he runs or jogs 30 to 50 miles a week and walks about 2 miles per day.

Trips will be limited to about half a mile of walking from the landing vehicle or three miles of driving in a rover.

At the Africa Centre for Holistic Management in Zimbabwe, about 12 miles south of Victoria Falls, Savory takes his wooden walking stick and traces marks on the ground.

The forests of Lord Howe Island, about 300 miles off the coast of New South Wales, Australia, were the only known home of the Lord Howe Island phasmid, also called a «stick insect» or «walking stick» — a creature about the size of a large cigar, four or five inches long and half an inch wide.