Sentence examples for an extra block from inspiring English sources

New Yorkers embrace their favorites with dogged allegiance, often walking as much as an extra block to get the sesame noodles of their devotion.

New Yorkers in every borough may have to walk an extra block or wait an extra few minutes for their ride.

A physical therapist groused that while the movie was being filmed, his patients could not park near his office and had to walk an extra block.

"You want the average Joe, who will walk an extra block and make a couple of points, and at the end of the month will have made one or two weeks' free membership.

Dr. Bird, as part of his continuing study of what the gene does, engineered a strain of mice whose MECP2 genes had been inactivated with the insertion of an extra block of DNA.

Bus stops in some parts of the city are informally designated Catholic or Protestant, and people walk an extra block or two to wait at a stop where they won't fear being hassled.

In the NP mechanism with λs = 2, μs = 5, a PU spends the mean waiting time of 0.04s (which accounts for 0.4% of the mean service time of PU) on queueing for transmission, and the PU also gains an extra blocking probability of 0.0034 (which accounts for 0.6% of the blocking probability of PU) because its waiting time is due.

They also say that passengers whose trains stop there would have to walk an extra full block to get to Penn Station, where they would be able to catch subways running on the West Side of Manhattan.

As for the employees, they most likely will just park on a street beyond the permit zone and walk a few extra blocks to work.

She figured she could walk from there, a few extra blocks.

There is much talk of a long-planned Second Avenue subway, but now residents have to walk a few extra blocks east or creatively utilize city bus routes.