Sentence examples for lying approximately from inspiring English sources

It is composed of nine small coral islands scattered in a chain lying approximately northwest to southeast over a distance of some 420 miles (676 km).

Palmyra was built on an oasis lying approximately halfway between the Mediterranean Sea (west) and the Euphrates River (east), and it helped connect the Roman world with Mesopotamia and the East.

Léogâne, formerly Yaguana, city and port on the Gulf of Gonâve, southwestern Haiti, lying approximately 20 miles (32 km) west of Port-au-Prince Port-au-Prince Port-au-Princentry's sonthernorthinshore

Landlocked and lying approximately between latitudes 45° and 49° N and longitudes 16° and 23° E, Hungary shares a border to the north with Slovakia, to the northeast with Ukraine, to the east with Romania, to the south with Serbia (specifically, the Vojvodina region) and Croatia, to the southwest with Slovenia, and to the west with Austria.

Some mining had been conducted in a coal seam lying approximately 85 m above Mine A, but there were no noticeable stress transfers.

Increasing T towards Tm brings about an enhanced asymmetry in the C C H valency angles and a small rotation of the polymer chains with a concomitant expansion of the interchain contacts lying approximately in the bc-plane.

The island lies approximately in the middle of East Penobscot Bay, about twelve miles east of Camden.

The city lies approximately 110 miles (177 km) northwest of London.

San Cristóbal Island lies approximately 600 miles (965 km) west of mainland Ecuador.

A notable example is the New Madrid seismic zone, which lies approximately in the middle of the North America tectonic plate.

Halloran lies approximately in the centre of Staten Island, about a half hour by bus from the ferry terminal at St . George