They had been seen as soon as they left the ranch, picked out of the darkness by the weary though watchful eyes of two men posted a few hundred yards away in the windless shelter of the trees.

The valley was only a few hundred yards wide with just about room enough for a properly performed hundred-and-eighty-degree turn.

It was established in a couple of buildings in the shopping district, with only a few professors, but all eminent men, and a few hundred eager students housed in nearby dwellings.

So, because he had received less than Tom, it was felt proper that Fred should receive the few hundred dollars that remained.

His legs suddenly feel heavy and unaccountably weary, as if he had walked for miles, instead of strolling a few hundred yards along the old campus paths.

If launched in a careful but determined way within the next few weeks, the Peace Corps could have several hundred persons in training this summer for placement next fall.

Had More's writings been wholly limited to such exercises, they would be almost as dimly remembered as those of a dozen or so other authors living in his time, whose works tenuously survive in the minds of the few hundred scholars who each decade in pursuit of their very specialized occasions read those works.

An ordinary sea wave is rarely more than a few hundred feet long from crest to crest -- no longer than 320 feet in the Atlantic or 1,000 feet in the Pacific.

Overwhelming Russian naval power would always be within a few hundred miles of our coast.

In the early spring of 1913 a few hundred thousand persons turned out to watch 5000 women parade.

But as the tour reached Pensacola a month ago, Player was leading Palmer in official winnings by a few hundred dollars, and the rest of the field was somewhere off in nowhere.

At Oxford one hundred years ago there were very few Catholics, partly because religious tests were removed only in 1854.

Actually, the types of infection that could attack a warm-blooded mammal were not infinite, and over the course of the last few hundred years adequate defenses had been found for all basic categories.

They settled first in the Ancient Pueblo areas for a few hundred years, then migrated to their current location.

A few hundred metres away, there is the now partially reconstructed Theatre of Herodes Atticus.

However, the dominance of the Zeppelins over the aeroplanes of that period, which had a range of only a few hundred miles, was diminishing as aeroplane design advanced.

Moreover, the ansibles Le Guin uses in her stories apparently have a very limited bandwidth which only allows for at most a few hundred characters of text to be communicated in any transaction of a dialog session.

The 90 / 53 was a feared weapon, notably in the anti-tank role, but only a few hundred had been produced by the time of the armistice in 1943.

His few remaining masses ( the story of his having composed two hundred is hardly credible ) and church music in general are comparatively unimportant, except the great St Cecilia Mass ( 1721 ), which is one of the first attempts at the style which reached its height in the great masses of Johann Sebastian Bach and Beethoven.

High-potency antipsychotics such as haloperidol, in general, have doses of a few milligrams and cause less sleepiness and calming effects than low-potency antipsychotics such as chlorpromazine and thioridazine, which have dosages of several hundred milligrams.

A few kilometers to the north of Alcobaça is another wondrous building constructed in memory of a different important battle, that of Aljubarrota in 1385, when Dom João I defeated the Castilians and ensuring two hundred years of independence from the Castilian invaders.

The other long established club in the city ' Os Galitos ' was founded in 1904 and water related sports such as swimming, sailing and rowing are some of its longest traditional strongest specialities, other sections in the club include chess, basketball, snooker, pool and billiards among others, but rowing is the modality in which the club has a maintained a long and proud tradition going back more than one hundred years, reaching the highest possible excellence as a club with several of its individual and team of rowers having represented Portugal Internationally and at the Olympic games with good classifications on more than a just few occasions.

One hundred and fifty more occur with the prefix ge-( reckoning a few found only in the past-participle ), but of these one hundred occur also as simple verbs, and the prefix is employed to render a shade of meaning which was perfectly known and thoroughly familiar except in the latest Anglo-Saxon period.

Applications of control methodology have helped make possible space travel and communication satellites, safer and more efficient aircraft, cleaner auto engines, cleaner and more efficient chemical processes, to mention but a few.

The BBC understands € 500 million (£ 440M ) will become available to make the extra purchase, taking Europe's version of GPS from 18 operational satellites in the next few years to 24.

A few have even had small purpose-built solar sails for this use ( for example Eurostar E3000 geostationary communications satellites built by EADS Astrium ).

There are only a few known mean motion resonances in the Solar System involving planets, dwarf planets or larger satellites ( a much greater number involve asteroids, planetary rings, moonlets and smaller Kuiper belt objects, including many dwarf planet candidates ).

A few space probes have been placed into orbit around other bodies and become artificial satellites to the Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and the Sun.

The relatively clear line of sight between the satellites and receivers on the ground, combined with ever-improving electronics, allows satellite navigation systems to measure location to accuracies on the order of a few meters in real time.

In Molniya orbits, where the satellites would spend much of their time over the USSR, only a few dozen satellites would be needed, in total.

A few years later, in 1852, he proposed the names still used today for the four then-known satellites of Uranus: Ariel, Umbriel, Titania, and Oberon.

Particularly large differences between reconstructed temperature series occur at the few times when there is little temporal overlap between successive satellites, making intercalibration difficult.

All such searches were unsuccessful, and in a few cases particularly well-localized bursts ( those whose positions were determined with what was then a high degree of accuracy ) could be clearly shown to have no bright objects of any nature consistent with the position derived from the detecting satellites.

For this reason, if Venus's slow rotation rate began early in its history, any satellites larger than a few kilometres in size would likely have spiralled into the planet.

Before these DBS satellites, home satellite television in Europe was limited to a few channels, really intended for cable distribution, and requiring dishes typically of 1. 2m.

On March 5, 1979, a few months after the successful dropping of satellites into the atmosphere of Venus, the two Soviet spacecraft that were then drifting through the Solar System were hit by a blast of gamma ray radiation at approximately 10: 51 EST.

A few months later on 28 November 2008, NHK World TV began Test transmissions on the Eurobird series of satellites, Free to Air, at 28. 5 Degrees East.

GPS has better accuracy that any previous land-based system, is available at almost all locations on the Earth, can be implemented in a few cents of modern electronics, and requires only a few dozen satellites to provide worldwide coverage.

Skynet 4 satellites have few similarities to the earlier generations.

Many digital cable systems use services like HITS (" Headend in the Sky "), a unit of Comcast, which carry hundreds of channels on just a few satellites ; this is commonly used by small systems to expand service without adding expensive new dishes or other equipment.

The rocket had been scheduled to launch in just a few days ' time and had two satellites onboard when the explosion occurred.

By mid-1960, Glennan had secured for NASA primacy in the U. S. federal government for the execution of all space activities except reconnaissance satellites, ballistic missiles, and a few other space-related projects, most of which were still in the study stage, that the DOD controlled.

::: Graveyard orbit-An orbit a few hundred kilometers above geosynchronous that satellites are moved into at the end of their operation.

This is not always easy, as the satellites ' shots do not need to travel far to hit the player's ship, and the player only has a few seconds to destroy them before they fly away.