Sentences with phrase «with millions of miles»

If you were really a «travel hacker» you would be sneaking in to online airline and bank systems to credit yourself with millions of miles, making reservations at 5 - star hotels in the Maldives for zero points, and using your Southwest RapidRewards to reserve the entire first class cabin on that Singapore A380.

CEOs with millions of miles in their accounts from expensed travel won't be affected, of course.

Overall I hope the post has something for everyone — and there are people out there with millions of miles sitting in their Mileage accounts.

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Thanks to its long history of working with the Department of Defense, AeroVironment has already logged an estimated 1 million miles of flights to date.

Those on the MegaDo trip have a lifetime average of 1.6 million miles — earned through flying and credit cards — with American alone.

Amazon regularly uses the U.S. Postal Service to complete what's called the «last mile» of delivery, with letter carriers dropping off packages at some 150 million residences and businesses daily.

But as someone who has traveled more than two million miles over the course of my career, I have come up with some overlooked travel etiquette tips that everyone can benefit from.

In some parts of the country there are well - preserved, 30 - year - old Volvo 240s happily humming along with over 1 million miles on the odometer.

And when you're tasked with building and launching spacecraft millions or even billions of miles from Earth, on missions that take several years, long - term planning is pretty critical.

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.

If Tesla goes ahead with its Tesla Mobility ride sharing business, the amount of data could rise to 400 million miles per day by 2025 or 2030.

That it happened to Uber seems to be a bit of bad luck blended with hubris, adds Brauer, noting that in some 2.5 million miles and years of testing the most that has happened to Google's autonomous cars are low - speed bumper dings.

With thousands of miles of transmission lines, gigawatts of generation, computers that route power, frequency regulators, and transformers that all serve the constantly fluctuating needs of millions of people, lots of things can go wrong.

Whitefish has only won two small federal contracts in Arizona with the Department of Energy: a $ 172,000 deal to replace metal poles and install 3 miles of wiring, and a $ 1.3 million contract to revamp sections of a 4.8 - mile transmission line.

UK authorities with the Information Commissioner's Office raided the offices of Cambridge Analytica, a shady election - data firm that allegedly partnered with an app to take advantage of mile - wide loopholes in Facebook policies and run off with 50 million users» data, on Friday.

The Calgary, Alberta - based company reached $ 176 million consent decree with U.S. regulators in 2016 that required inspections of additional pipelines in Enbridge's Lakehead network, a web extending some 2,000 miles across seven states.

I sit with my evening cup of coffee and feel my mind continue to spin a million miles an hour with thoughts, dreams, feelings and epiphanies that have yet to be shared with others.

The African Arab world includes Egypt, Sudan, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco, with an area of about three million square miles, and containing some forty - nine million Muslims.

Jonathan Livingston Seagull and The Living Bible — someone said you could fly a kite to the moon with the miles of thread that bind together the pages of the 25 million copies of those books now in print.

In the winter, the men «went to the bush» for long months in rough company and risky work, until the great spring drive when the Ottawa River, more than a mile wide, was filled with the booms of millions of logs heading south to feed an insatiable market for wood.

We somehow feel that what we can see with our own eyes is true, even when what we are seeing is mediated through the lens of a camera, thousands of transistors, miles of wire, and millions of phosphors projected on the back of a picture tube.

Even with injuries we have the better players, greater squad depth, and our finances for attracking better players are a million miles ahead of these teams and most other clubs as well.

I agree with Theo and the others, but Gibbs should be sold for nothing less than 14 million, and chambers if sold I would like a buy back clause in the deal and a min of 20 mil for that kid as i don't think harry or keane are miles ahead of him.

$ 20 million per year on aged reliever with a decent amount of miles... Pass.

Before even going with a million miles of criticising Alexis (who has been carrying the club on his back), how about questioning almost every other player at the club?

He told the Mirror Football Podcast: «They have been a million miles apart, not just with points but with ideas and the way they want to play [has] gone out of the modern game.

Bolton are a million miles off those spending big sums of lolly and that has shown already this season, with defeats against Liverpool (2 - 3), Man Utd (2 - 1), Chelsea (0 - 4) & now Aston Villa (5 - 1).

«a day in the life» is the rambling monologue of a housewife (not a million miles from myself;) juggling with household chores and sorting out the kids, answering the phone while cooking dinner and worrying about the economy — but at the end of the day when the jobs are done, you can escape from everyday worries by going for a run, a bike ride or for a swim — where you're alone to think stuff through or think of nothing at all — and certainly not about the phonebill or the mountain of ironing that needs doing.

Eight miles of revetments, which prevent the shoreline from being eroded, are being built in a $ 300 million venture financed mostly by the federal government, with participation by the state, city and Park District.

With 390 miles of underground caves to explore, the park attracts about 2 million visitors per year.

The Chicago Park District has 7,400 acres of parks, including 26 miles of shoreline, it operates 250 field houses, 90 indoor and outdoor pools, six golf courses, thousands of game courts, playing fields and playgrounds with an annual budget of $ 315 million and 4,200 employees.

If I was granted a wish to sit down and chat with one of my favourite parenting experts, Dr. Laura Markham, I'd no doubt speak at a million miles an hour trying to extract every last drop of wisdom I could... Read More

Lawmakers have budgeted $ 5.9 million to pave 23 miles of road with hot mix asphalt this year, subject to approval at the May 1 meeting.

Each gas drilling well requires 5 acres of road and well pad, 4 to 9 million gallons of water mixed with 50,000 gallons of hundreds of different chemicals — many of them highly toxic carcinogens, neurotoxins and endocrine disrupters (as well as many untested synergistically on living beings) forced into a spider web of miles of pipeline that is soon thick coated with radioactive radium when 60 % of that toxic brew is on its way back upward as gas waste «brine.»

It also pointed out that road building was highly expensive, with one mile of motorway costing # 30 million.

The island is 1,600 miles (2,575 kilometers) away, but connections often feel much closer in a state with over 1 million people of Puerto Rican descent.

Gural claims that with more than 14 million adults within 50 miles of the racetrack, his proposed Hard Rock Casino could generate $ 400 million a year in tax revenues.

The extinction at the end of the Permian is thought to have been caused by volcanic eruptions in Siberia over hundreds of thousands if not a million years that produced what are known today as the Siberian Traps: lava fields covering much of northern Russia and originally encompassing nearly 3 million square miles with an average thickness of about 1,000 feet.

Aral ended up with a vast, anonymized dataset of more than 1.1 million runners who logged more than 359 million kilometers (223 million miles) over five years.

Around the same time, volcanoes a million times bigger than Mount Saint Helens erupted, spewing enormous clouds of dust and gas into the sky and covering the ground with 2 million square miles of molten lava.

After inspiring millions of people worldwide with its successful landing in a crater on the Red Planet on Aug. 5, 2012, PDT (Aug. 6, 2012, EDT), Curiosity has provided more than 190 gigabits of data; returned more than 36,700 full images and 35,000 thumbnail images; fired more than 75,000 laser shots to investigate the composition of targets; collected and analyzed sample material from two rocks; and driven more than one mile (1.6 kilometers).

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.

2012: Total ozone reached 124 DU on Oct. 1 and 136 DU on Oct. 5 with the hole covering 8.2 million square miles (equivalent to the area of North America).

The first optical storage techniques — which would later create the compact disc — were developed in 1965, but data transfer was still agonizingly slow: Mariner 4 radioed these pictures over 134 million miles with a puny 10 - watt radio transmitter at the rate of 81/3 bits per second.

In a 2016 study, Kalra and a colleague showed that self - driving cars would have to trek hundreds of millions or perhaps billions of miles to demonstrate with comfortable certainty that they caused fewer fatalities than the average person (about 1.1 per 100 million miles driven).

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.

Other widespread population buildups can be toxic — as in May when a bloom of dinoflagellates covered nearly 4,000 square miles off China with a so - called red tide that killed off millions of fish.

In all those places physicists have built novel observatories costing hundreds of millions of dollars each, with arms extending several miles in perpendicular directions.

It would comprise about 19,000 miles of transmission, with 130 - foot towers, at $ 2.6 million a mile.

Yet with the nearest emergency room 30 million miles away, and Earth - style surgical anesthetics unworkable in microgravity, elderly astronauts would have to be freakishly sturdy to weather the medical challenges of the trip.