Sentences with phrase «within about a mile»

«Proboscis monkeys are fairly unusual in being so restricted to habitats within about a mile of some sizeable waterway,» says Elizabeth L. Bennett of the Wildlife Conservation Society in New York.

The theater I worked at was within about a mile's drive of Universal Studios, where National General did a lot of their filming.

Their is a Menards, Lowes, and Home Depot all within about a mile of each other by me, Menards is always packed while the other 2 are pretty dead the few times I stopped in to comparison shop.

Not exact matches

That's nearly 20 times the speed of sound, and it allows Minuteman IIIs to strike a target within about 30 minutes from more than 6,000 miles away, accurate to within hundreds of feet.

A 10 - kiloton blast can deliver this much exposure within a radius of about a mile, inside the «moderate damage zone.»

Shanghai is expected to build an intelligent - vehicle network covering about 62 miles (100 square kilometers) by 2020, the government said, adding that Shanghai will explore the possibility of connecting to major transportation junctions within the city.

A spokesman for the Iranian - backed paramilitary groups said the advance toward the Islamic State - held town of Tal Afar, about 55 km (35 miles) west of Mosul, would start within «a few days or hours».

That's about 6.8 % of unprotected, unbuilt - on land within a 50 mile radius of London.

Yet there are about a dozen craft breweries within a five - mile radius of their home office.

«For the base in Syria to be useful, it must be within about 20 miles of the operations US - backed forces are carrying out,» the Post wrote.

Pentagon spokesman Col. Rob Manning said the missile was launched from Sain Ni, North Korea, and traveled about 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) before landing in the Sea of Japan within 370 nautical kilometers (200 nautical miles) of Japan's coast.

Joly said in the letter he felt confident about retaining customers and transitioning them to the company's larger stores and website, adding 85 percent of Best Buy's mobile stores are within three miles of one of its big box stores.

Once it's about 80 miles up, it'll be within one orbit (about 90 minutes) of crashing.

«We feel good about the opportunity to retain customers and transition them to another one of our sales channels,» Joly wrote in the letter, adding that 85 percent of Best Buy's mobile stores are within 3 miles of one of its big - box stores.

They also instituted a voluntary evacuation within about one mile of the river to limit people's exposure to benzene fumes — a known carcinogen.

For utilities like Florida Power & Light, the electricity utility that serves about half of the state's 20 million residents along the southern coasts and has 90 percent of its customers within 20 miles of the coast, putting power lines underground increases risks of flood damage, so the move would only trade one hazard for another.

The truth is that there are no standard and well — equipped window and building exterior cleaning business within the area where ours is going to be located; the closest window and building exterior cleaning company to our proposed location is about 6 miles away.

For example, the seeming unlimited number of galaxies (with each containing anywhere from an estimated 10 to 500 billion stars) and the precise order that exists within the universe, and the shear distance between stars (an average about 4.2 light years or about 25 trillion miles), has caused some to stop and look in awe.

When reading about the birth of Jesus in Scripture, many people do not realize that Bethlehem was situated within a mile or two of the Herodium, a huge palace fortress built upon a hill for King Herod, who had set himself up as the King of the Jews.

FYI There are probably about 1/2 Million people within 25 miles of me (500,000 in Delaware County, 1.5 Million in Philadelphia, and 500,000 in Chester County)....

well in my city, I count about 8 christian radio stations, I have 5 churches within a mile of my house, a mormon temple, a bunch of christian bill boards, and every weekend I have people knocking on my door..

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.

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!»

If you can, get within earshot of his voice (about a mile and a half).

«We are in a great position to be responsive and flexible, to test solutions faster, especially within our primary market area, which is about 600 miles around us,» says Mike Haygood, vice president of sales and marketing.

The perishable foodservice specialty distributor Belair Produce Inc. www.belairproduce.com carries products that include fruit and vegetables, Headquarters: Baltimore charcuterie, an extensive imported cheese line, as well Employees: 70 Specialty: Produce distributor as just about any specialty product that a fine dining Chad Berman, director of operaestablishment might want, and distributes them within tions: «Looking back and reflecting on four generations of [leadera 150 - mile radius of its facility.

We are lucky enough to have a Chinese restaurant within about 10 miles that has a reliable gluten free menu.

It's about showing the right attitude on the pitch, and not one player / coach / board member at the club comes within a million miles of the attitude that Sanchez displays during a game!

Covey grew up within a mile of Cougar Stadium, cutting out hundreds of articles about Brigham Young football for his scrapbooks, attending home games, mimicking the great BYU quarterbacks in his backyard.

About five miles from Boulogne lies the little French seaside town of Hardelot, within the Opal Coast and close to a lovely stretch of golden beaches.

The town board approved a strict zoning law that will require wind farms to stay within one specific corner of town — but about a half - mile away from people's homes and the boundary of the Adirondack Park in New York State's North Country.

Iowa Agriculture Secretary Bill Northey said state officials have quarantined and tested about 400 commercial and backyard flocks within 6.2 miles of the infected flocks.

Twenty years ago, there were almost no TV's and only about 1 - 2 public fixed line telephone stalls per village of 2000 people, smaller villages generally didn't have a phone, most Indians were within a few miles of the nearest landline.

About 460,000 people live within a half - mile of the landings planned for the first phase, 44 percent of whom are residents of low to moderate income, according to city figures.

About one - third of Connecticut's population lives within a 50 - mile radius of the plant.

More than 17 million people live within 50 miles of the facility, which stands on the east side of the lower Hudson River about 30 miles north of New York City (and 50 miles southeast of Kingston).

The research by Demos found that only about half of all MPs had either been born, educated or lived within 12.5 miles of the constituencies they now represented in the past five years.

The two large amounts of power, accounting for about one - third of the Lewiston project's firm generating output, are reserved for businesses within a 30 - mile radius of the facility or for businesses in Chautauqua County.

More than 17 million people live within 50 miles of the plant, which sits alongside the lower Hudson River, about 30 miles north of New York City.

NASA's Spaceguard survey program, established in 1998, aims to locate and follow at least 90 percent of the estimated 1,100 asteroids that come within about 30 million miles of Earth's orbit around the sun and that are larger than two - thirds of a mile wide.

This view shows Alga Crater's central peak, which is about 3 miles (5 kilometers) wide within the 12 - mile (19 - kilometer) diameter of this southern - hemisphere crater.

This map shows the overlapping orbits (blue) of the 1,400 known Potentially Hazardous Asteroids — objects more than about 400 feet wide that can approach within 4.6 million miles of Earth.

Each site varied in the number of people living within one kilometer (about five - eighths of a mile)-- from nearly a dozen to over 17 thousand.

Before 1750, most Americans found a spouse within six miles (10 kilometers) of where they were born, but for those born in 1950, that distance had stretched to about 60 miles (100 kilometers), the researchers found.

The comet traveled from the most distant region of our solar system called the Oort Cloud and made a close approach at 2:27 p.m. EDT within about 87,000 miles (139,500 kilometers) of the Red Planet.

They also used National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration data from 69 major storms over the past 154 years, within about 65 miles of Santa Rosa Island, to construct storm - striking scenarios.

Comet C / 2013 A1, also known as comet Siding Spring, will pass within about 87,000 miles (139,500 kilometers) of the Red Planet — less than half the distance between Earth and our moon and less than one - tenth the distance of any known comet flyby of Earth.

In the red zone, within one - third of a mile of Ground Zero, the bomb would destroy buildings, people, and just about anything else; in the green zone, within three - fourths of a mile, people would either die immediately or be seriously injured by fire and radiation.

And when they did, the elk didn't run away or even stop chewing unless the wolves came within about half a mile.

On Jan. 3, automated monitoring determined that two weeks later, MAVEN and MRO could come within about two miles (three kilometers) of each other, with large uncertainties remaining in the exact passing distance.