As a result, the nation's 5,000 or so private jets that offer charter flights travel empty 40percentt of the time.
Empty running, expressed in terms of kilometers or operations, is the distance or operations the vehicle travelled empty.
Strewn among the weeds was the usual flotsam of travel: empty water bottles, crumpled candy wrappers, crushed soda cans, half-eaten packages of crisps.
Light travels through water at roughly 75% of the speed with which it travels through empty space.
Gaza is one of the most densely populated areas on earth, and on the journey into UNRWA headquarters we travelled down empty streets with rubble and destruction everywhere.
Maxwell's equations predicted that electromagnetic waves would travel through empty space at a speed of almost exactly 3 × 108 metres per second (186,000 miles per second)—i.e., according with the measured speed of light.
Writing from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m., I set out in my car every afternoon to travel down empty roads en route to seldom visited precolonial homesteads; parking at the edges of steep shore-side cliffs framed by vast marine skies a friend termed "deluxe"; wandering down a time tunnel into a past that, to renew an overused paraphrase of Faulkner, is not dead and not, for that matter, even past.
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Lewiston Dam, downstream of Trinity Dam, diverts water into the Clear Creek Tunnel, which travels to empty into a third reservoir, Whiskeytown Lake on Clear Creek, a tributary of the Sacramento River, generating 154 MW of power in the process.
