Sentence examples for yards per second from inspiring English sources

After this the most striking feature is the rise of the ball of fire at the rate of about 30 yards per second.

During the first year of construction on the riverbed, a flood of 8,500 cubic metres (11,100 cubic yards) per second was experienced, and in the second year the Zambezi discharged 16,200 cubic metres (21,200 cubic yards) per second.

When the bridge collapsed, the water and debris headed toward Johnstown at a rate probably greater than 15,600 cubic yards per second — about equal, Dr. Davis Todd said, to the average flow of the Mississippi River.

For example, engineers found that, in constructing the Kariba Dam over the Zambezi River on the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe, analyses of the available records of river discharge yielded the estimate that a flood of 7,600 cubic metres (9,950 cubic yards) per second should be expected once in four years.

They calculate that the black hole effect could take over in small vortexes moving at the outer edge of the effective black hole with speeds of from hundreds of yards per second to just a few feet per second, depending on how much further progress is made on the slow-light substances.

Chief among their findings, which Dr. Davis Todd presented last week at a meeting of the Geological Society of America in Portland, Ore., was that the lake held about 23.5 million cubic yards of water, which at one point passed through the breach at nearly 11,800 cubic yards per second.

On the defensive side of the ball, they ranked second in scoring defense (11.71 points per game), second in total defense (244.14 yards per game), second in rushing defense (78.14 yards per game) and tenth in passing defense (166.00 yards per game).

They ranked fourth nationally and first in conference scoring defense (13.9 points per game), fifth nationally and first in conference in total defense (286.50 yards per game), seventh nationally and first in conference in rushing defense (106.2 yards per game) and eleventh nationally and second in conference in passing defense (180.3 yards per game).

The Texans allowed 285.7 yards per game, second to only the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Though not fast, he's averaging 17.3 yards per catch, second most among tight ends with at least 10 receptions.

The Cougars, with their sets of four and five wide receivers, averaged 502.2 yards per game, second behind Nebraska.