Sentence examples for descending about from inspiring English sources

CSÁKBERÉNY, HUNGARY — Driving west from Budapest, the city's outlying suburbs give way to plowed fields of black earth, then a short section of moorland before descending — about 70 kilometers from the city — to the foot of a limestone outcrop.

Like the rolling green landscape itself, there was no flat, no lukewarm and no moderation, the 107 runners climbing 17,500 feet and descending about the same on mostly narrow single-track trails.

Beardmore Glacier, glacier in central Antarctica, descending about 7,200 ft (2,200 m) from the South Polar Plateau to Ross Ice Shelf, dividing the Transantarctic Mountains of Queen Maud and Queen Alexandra.

Behind my friend's house was a small creek, which we could scramble down to, by descending about a thirty-foot incline, which the mom made easier by setting into the clay-laden soil half-logs that gave us somewhere to step.

On a good weather day (temperatures vary from about -10C to -3C), skiers can expect to make about six trips down the mountain, descending about 800 to 1,200m depending on the route.

The first 11 miles were inside park boundaries, and they were fairly nasty, descending about 3,500 feet through a series of tight turns, with jagged rocks at the edge of the blacktop.

Also during walking on a steeply inclined surface, the values recorded for stance phase remained in a narrow range (for an inclination of 42° it was found about 60% for descending and about 64% for ascending gait) [ 14].

The pit descends about 1,000 feet down slopes created by terraced access roads.

Because Flagstaff is 7,000 feet in elevation, you also descend about 2,000 feet from there to Roden.

Flowing east-southeast, the Saguenay, in the first third of its 105-mile (170-km) length, descends about 300 feet (90 metres) in a turbulent stream.

He helped to redevelop the bathyscaphe Trieste of Swiss engineer Jacques Piccard, who descended about 7 miles (11 km) into the Pacific Ocean in it in 1960.