Example sentences of "[art] [adj] metres [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | The 34-year-old Peterlee financial consultant won her specialist event , the 100 metres hurdles , on Saturday , and then followed up by taking the gold medal in the 100 metres yesterday . |
2 | Ewan Murray , the Games council 's chairman , said cost was not a factor in selecting the team , but only 15 athletes achieved the stringent qualifying standards set down by the Scottish Amateur Athletic Associaton — and one , Allister Hutton , is not going to Auckland because he wished to run in the 10,000 metres instead of the marathon , for which he had qualified . |
3 | Christie arrived back from warm-weather training on Thursday , but confirmed yesterday through his coach , Ron Roddan , that he would be flying north to attempt a sprint double , even though the 200 metres is scheduled for today and the 60 metres tomorrow . |
4 | I won the 200 metres easily . |
5 | Not quite the same as Ed Moses breaking the 400 metres best while running over hurdles , maybe , but quite an achievement nevertheless . |
6 | Every fifty metres there was a television camera scanning the road . |
7 | The demonstrators stopped their march , a few metres away from a police line deployed in the temple 's front square . |
8 | As they stared intently at a cameraman lurking on the bank , a family of mink , unnoticed peered curiously at them , from only a few metres away . |
9 | A beam flashed across the runway only a few metres away from the shuttle 's nose . |
10 | The creature was only a few metres away now . |
11 | The woman stopped , only a few metres away now , and exchanged a glance with Ace before turning slowly to face Defries . |
12 | They ran for the shelter of a large chunk of dislodged temple that had fallen a few metres away . |
13 | Slightly smaller than Jeanneau 's new protégé , and displayed with considerably less ostentation only a few metres away , was the neat little Sprint designed by Joubert/Nivelt and built by Archambault . |
14 | He got up from his seat as quickly as his thick furs and old muscles would allow , kicked some slates and books out of his way across the glass floor and started inspecting a pillar a few metres away . |
15 | He sensed Rodo 's presence a few metres ahead of him . |
16 | They are spaced only a few metres apart , each wearing the garish colours of their clan , two on the kiteline , others as reel carriers , coaches or vociferous fans . |
17 | Ace caught it , almost pulled Defries from her perch , released it , and rolled to a stop a few metres further down the slope . |
18 | The importance of getting a good start now becomes obvious , since if you fall only a few metres behind in the first minute after the start you fall into everyone else 's dirty wind and drop even further back . |
19 | On moderately dry ground , for example along the coast of Antarctica , unsorted polygons are convex shapes in the ground up to a few metres across , ringed by a network of furrows that mark the positions of persistent cracks ( Figure 3.8 ) . |
20 | For a group of young nuns to challenge the full authority of the Chinese state , visibly expressed by the tin-hatted martial-law troops standing guard only a hundred metres away , is an act of calculated defiance . |
21 | It was less than a hundred metres away , and gave us a long hard look as we stood there . |
22 | The ship 's gun BOOMED ! and the shot fell only a hundred metres away . |
23 | And the same thing applies posts are a hundred metres apart . |
24 | Silver and the rest were a hundred metres behind , and I heard him shouting , ‘ Jim , Jim ! ’ |
25 | Using a scale a one centimetre representing a hundred metres So that 'll be nine centimetres . |
26 | Well if they 've separated you see you get one on the inside track , one on the outside track and they can be separated by a hundred metres so that there 's one , one side one |
27 | A hundred metres further there was a barrier across the road with flashing lights , cars parked along the verges , police with guns . |
28 | The view ahead was obscured by a section of partially completed walling at the east end , but when he reached the comer Zen fount that the only unpredictable feature of the landscape was a river which cut across the track about a hundred metres further on . |