Example sentences of "[prep] [art] few metres " in BNC.
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| 1 | Drilling at Ballantrae by Selection Trust Ltd found disseminated and massive nickeliferous marcasite over widths of a few metres ( MEG 103 ) . |
| 2 | particles are stopped by a sheet of aluminium and a have a range of a few metres in the air . |
| 3 | The water was deep in the middle , so I had to swim for a few metres . |
| 4 | Left : Give homemade cushions a sumptuous , exotic look , with a few metres of piping , cord or fringing |
| 5 | On one occasion I lay down for a rest , dozed off for 15 minutes , and awoke to find half a dozen sitting on branches within a few metres of my recumbent form . |
| 6 | You may live within a few metres of many if not most of the plant and animal species ever recorded in Britain , and perhaps a few that are new to science . |
| 7 | The missiles would blast out of their launchers , navigate automatically across Europe , and land within a few metres of targets such as airfields , ports , power stations , dams and locks . |
| 8 | Because three of the 20 ‘ global positioning ’ satellites will always be above the horizon the electronics can triangulate a car 's position within a few metres . |
| 9 | The GPS system made its public debut in the recent Gulf War when it enabled allied troops to navigate at night across hundreds of miles of desert to within a few metres . |
| 10 | The second man ducked back around the corner and Maxim backed off crouching and aiming until he was within a few metres of the cross-street . |
| 11 | The continental shelf and deeper sea-bed beyond , to a distance of 300–600km from the shore , have a covering of fine grey glacial mud , forming a layer that varies in thickness from a few metres over active areas of sea-floor spreading to 200km or more in older , more stable regions . |
| 12 | Azerbaijan has about a third of the world population of mud volcanoes , which range in size from a few metres to several kilometres across the base . |
| 13 | For common igneous minerals , critical concentrations are very small ( typically 0.002–0.03wt% ) and layers of the order of centimetres to a few metres thick will result . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | Kypov shouted at him across the few metres that separated them , and the breath spouted white from the Major 's mouth . |
| 16 | Even at the simplest and most active plate boundaries , a major earthquake caused by a few metres movement of a fault recurs perhaps six times a millennium . |