The explosion damaged numerous homes, a nursing home and the town's high school and middle school, all of which were built within a few hundred feet of the plant.
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The explosion damaged numerous homes, a nursing home and the town's high school and middle school, all of which had been built within a few hundred feet of the plant.
If there are Navy jets routinely flying a few hundred feet above a rural site that is part of a contemplated transaction, the potential for government objection may be clear.
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Residential or enterprise small cells, sometimes referred to as femtocells, are designed for deployment in residential or office settings to connect anywhere from 8 to 64 users within a radius of a few hundred feet.
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The Texas Railroad Commission, using chemical fingerprinting, maintains that the EPA is wrong and that the gas seeped into the well from a shallow formation a few hundred feet beneath the surface, much closer to the water wells.
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The site where HMS Grafton ran aground is only a few hundred feet from where the German warship Bluecher was sunk by a torpedo from the nearby Oscarsborg fort, the day Norway was occupied by the Nazis in 1940.
Yes, one very short stretch (no more than a few hundred feet) of Riverside Drive was covered in standing water and closed to traffic, though an SUV could have still driven through it on the day the Mississippi was at its highest.
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Then a few more hundred feet is drilled with a narrower drill bit and then the narrower casing is run and cemented in.
If some wind shear would cross with another section a few hundred, or a thousand feet above it, you can end up in a condition where it'll actually cut like a knife, and slice the top of the balloon right off.
Marco notes that the nearest basalt outcrop was a few hundred meters from the site, and that the stones, which were three to six feet (one to two meters) in width, would have weighed over 200 pounds (90 kilograms) at times.
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