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This is a sculpture made from a million yards of wire and 150,000 glass beads the size of a golf ball.
And if the bus is going to stop and it's three yards away from the bus stop, you're just a prisoner.
And B-rex was found under a thousand cubic yards of rock.
And then the last section was going to go around the rail yards, which is the largest undeveloped site in Manhattan.
They're not going to be retro-fitted; they're going to be the salvage yards of the future.
And at one point, I had to do "The Whole Nine Yards."
So it's actually a papercut that's nine yards long.
So if you're lucky enough to be able to knock a small white ball into a hole several hundred yards away using a long metal stick, our society will be willing to reward you with hundreds of millions of dollars.
The object that formed this was probably about 30 to 50 yards across, so roughly the size of Macky Auditorium here.
This is a rock that was about 30 yards across, so roughly the size of the ones that blew up over Tunguska and hit Arizona 50,000 years ago.
We need to figure out also new ways of getting people into gardens, people who don't have yards.
You're 200 yards away, you realize you've got five seconds to go, you floor it.
So now I'm like 50 yards from my arrival and I'm exhausted, so my steps are slow.
Enveloped in temperatures of 130 degrees, men, women, children, entire families in fact, were cloaked in a heavy blanket of dust, while mechanically stacking bricks on their head, up to 18 at a time, and carrying them from the scorching kilns to trucks hundreds of yards away.
Now, in fact, a single mosquito will only travel about 200 yards in its entire life.
But there appeared to be a problem because the feathers were located 40 yards from where the body was found.
They might wander 40 feet, but they're not going to wander 40 yards.
So why in the world would a vulture wander 40 yards?
I knew of two things that would lure a vulture 40 yards from a body.
The blow to the head was thought to have occurred in the area where the pine cone was found, and then the victim was drug 40 yards and buried in a shallow grave.
I throw away my thongs, and I looked at the line straight in front of me, and I got down on all fours like a cat, and I held with my knees to either side of this line in front of me, for 30 yards or 30 feet, I don't know.
Three years ago, I was standing about a hundred yards from Chernobyl nuclear reactor number four.
When it was my turn to shoot, my father helped me hold the rifle to my shoulder and explained how to aim at the target about 30 yards off.
Those urban voids quickly became illegal parking or trash yards.
And this means teaching ourselves to find those confirmation biases and false correlations and being able to spot a naked emotional appeal from 30 yards, because something that happens after something doesn't mean it happened because of it, necessarily, and if you'll let me geek out on you for a second, the Romans called this "post hoc ergo propter hoc," after which therefore because of which.
Most of the catadores work independently, picking waste from the streets and selling to junk yards at very low prices.
How can you not know that there's a cat 100 yards away, or that your neighbor was on this very spot six hours ago?" (Laughter) So because we're humans, we've never experienced that world of smell, so we don't miss it, because we are firmly settled into our umwelt.
You know, the whole nine yards.
But as Jesse was running from the scene mortally wounded, he was running in the direction of my church, and he died some 100, 150 yards away.
I'm talking about cowboy boots and Caterpillar yellow toy trucks and bug jars, the whole nine yards.
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