Example sentences of "who [vb past] the [num] metres [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Caribbean interest in athletics has been enlivened by the Olympic success in 1976 of Don Quarrie of Jamaica in the 200 metres and Hasely Crawford of Trinidad and Tobago who dominated the 100 metres event in the mid-1970s . |
| 2 | ONE of the happiest men in Basildon was Joe Mills , an Essex University student from Harlow , who claimed the 800 metres title by just four-hundredths of a second in the Championships ' best race . |
| 3 | The 29-year-old Blaydon Harrier lines up in the international women 's road mile with Dorovskikh , the Ukranian who took the 3,000 metres title ahead of Yvonne Murray in Tokyo last summer and also finished second in the 1500 metres . |
| 4 | The East German Olympic champion Silke Hoerner , who won the 200 metres breaststroke gold medal at the Seoul Games , has retired . |
| 5 | The one Olympic team place on offer last night was claimed by Commonwealth champion Eamonn Martin of Basildon , who won the 10,000 metres trial in 28 mins 2.55 secs . |
| 6 | Alongside him , picking up MBEs , were Olympic golden girl Sally Gunnell — who won the 400 metres hurdles at Barcelona — and swimmer Nick Gillingham , who shrugged off injury to take bronze in the 200 metres breaststroke final . |