Sentence examples for many blocks and from inspiring English sources

The grounds, now accommodating 11,000 students, spread over many blocks, and the gradual takeover of residences by the university makes boundaries hard to define.

They say that large and garish awnings create an atmosphere of chaos, obscure the distinctive architecture of many blocks, and fuel a frenzied competition among storekeepers to outdo their neighbors with even bigger and busier signs.

There is not another playground to be found for many blocks, and during the summer it is packed, which offers the appetizing possibility that a diner, well sated, might splash a Sancerre on a tyke's head.

Comparing with the results of the most updated work on this problem by Xiang et al. [Bus-driven floorplanning, in: Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, 2003, pp. 66 73], our algorithm can handle buses going through many blocks and the dead space of the floorplan obtained is also reduced.

But if measured by how many blocks and neighborhoods are absolutely finished, according to the urban planners' artistic renditions, what is your progress?

Based on the hierarchical segmentation under a quad-tree decomposition [32, 33], an image is adequately decomposed into many blocks and subblocks according to the image contents.

I'd arrived in Manhattan too many blocks north, and decades too late.

We have a gas shortage here -- I'm sure you've seen images of lines that stretch across many blocks -- and the affected areas are about a 40-mile round-trip away.

In a community where rampant arson left gaping holes on many blocks, Thomas and his peers have turned those blackened lots into green, open spaces that yield fresh, affordable produce for the East New York Farms! weekly farmers' market.

Five years into its effort, the city provides an example of both the hope — some parts of downtown are back stronger than before — and the hardships — many blocks remain abandoned and blighted — of rebounding from a crushing flood.

It's like knowing, during a basketball game, how many blocked shots and assists and free throws you have had, but not whether you are actually winning.