It still takes almost as long to get by train from Penzance to Exeter as it does to get from Exeter to London.
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It takes about as long to get a container from Long Beach, California, to Shanghai as it does to get one from Shanghai to Chongqing, a thousand miles or so up the Yangzi river.
Even the best upcoming broadband wireless technologies from the telcos are nowhere near the 100Mbit or better I can get from from telco to get to the Internet, nor are they as reliable as copper or fiber, and they are orders of magnitude more expensive.
To get from place to place, you have to know where these places are, what they look like.
But a lot of pieces have to come together to get from science to profits in this industry.
There are no show lounges, casinos or rock climbing walls, and there is no rush to get from port to port.
But on other occasions, that extra time is just what a game needs to get from good to great.
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In general, add an extra 20% on to the amount of time you would ordinarily give to get from point to point.
For example, to get from me to Ronald Reagan is pretty simple.
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Many supporters had to dig their way out of the snow to get from Wrexham to London for the match, watched by 17, 000 Dragons' fans.
What I mean is, a street should be thought of as much more than just a place for a car to get from A to B.
It would take them weeks to get from Australia to Europe or the United States and then they would stay there for longer periods of time.
It took seven consecutive days and nights on trains to get from Moscow to Beijing, each day spent gazing out the windows for hours as the Siberian plains swept by.
You know where you want to go, but the incomprehensible road signs, congestion, construction delays and the like make it extremely difficult to get from here to there.
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In other words, to get from here to recession in America, and thence to global slump, is likely to require not just bad fortune but also bad judgment.
And there is just a remarkable unwillingness among Republicans, unfortunately, to accept the fact that the only way to get from here to there is to do it in a balanced way.
The situation was straight-forward and stable and you could take your time figuring out how to get from here to there, since I-95 construction aside nothing much was going to change in the interim.
That said, Cristiano Ronaldo, Rio Ferdinand and co are unlikely to have to tackle a public transport system so complicated I found myself relying on the goodwill of the locals to get from A to B.
This means minimising the time it takes to get from curb to gate when designing an airport terminal (which is different from a shopping mall) even if some people seem to think this is too much to ask for.
And although the parakeets required human assistance to get from Asia to Britain, their arrival is only an extreme form of the constant, natural shuffling of species brought about by the movements of adventurous individuals which studies such as this seek to monitor.
And while most traffic jams are a result of an accident or too many vehicles (or data packets in the case of the Internet) legitimately trying to get from place to place, they can also be slowed down deliberately, as happened in Brussels last September when about 100 trucks slowed traffic entering the city as part of a planned protest.
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As a result, the family uses a small tractor or a conveyor belt from the valley floor to get everything from groceries to building materials up to the castle.
But in the meantime, both business travellers and vacationers need to get from point A to point B.
His life is a daily struggle to get from one fix to the next.
At one point I went through 5 loading screens to get from the Homestead to New York!
To get from one peak to the other, economists will have to lose a lot of altitude first.
The quickest way to get from Oxford Circus to Central Park South will now be by executive jet.
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