Sentence examples for shelling range from inspiring English sources

The worsening crisis in Macedonia drew in NATO troops for the first time, in an unplanned evacuation of ethnic Albanian rebels from the town they held within shelling range of Skopje, the Macedonian capital.

Families have been forced to move several times to remain ahead of shifting front lines, to avoid cross-fire and to stay out of shelling range, said Ron Redmond, a spokesman for the United Nations high commissioner for refugees.

Today, NATO troops offered to step in to defuse what seemed to be the most delicate event in the conflict so far: evacuating the Albanian rebels from Aracinovo, which is six miles from Skopje, well within shelling range of the city, the airport and the country's only oil refinery.

After IS fighters overran some Iraqi army bases and seized control of Abu Ghraib, within shelling range of Baghdad's international airport, America sent in Apache attack helicopters to hit IS targets along the road that runs west of Baghdad to the IS stronghold of Falluja.

Racing shells range in overall length from 18.9 metres (62 feet) for an eight, 13.4 metres (44 feet) for a four, and 10.4 metres (34 feet) for a pair, to 8.2 metres (27 feet) for a single scull.

Both time and L shell variations of the precipitating electron fluxes over the wide L shell range of 1 9 are presented and discussed.

This Pc1 wave activity was highly localised and restricted to regions covering a relatively narrow L shells range (or differently, regions extending over < 100 km, Engebretson et al., 2008).

A recent statistical study by Zheng et al. (2016) also reported that one-to-one coincidences between whistlers observed by Van Allen Probes (Radiation Belt Storm Probes) and lightning strokes detected by World Wide Lightning Location Network are clearly shown in the L-shell range of L = 1 3.

The head and carapace (upper shell) range from a yellow-orange to a reddish-brown, while the plastron (underside) is typically pale yellow.

Their shells — ranging from whitish to dark brown — are nicely cupped, with pronounced flutes.

The average calorific value (LHV) of coconut shell ranges from 16.5 to 18 MJ/kg.