Example sentences of "[adv] a [adj] metres " in BNC.
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| 1 | The platform was dead black — an ovoid perhaps a hundred metres long by fifty in circumference . |
| 2 | There is a vast choice of discos , bars and restaurants practically on your doorstep ; it 's only a 100 metres walk to the main avenue of the bustling resort and a variety of discos and bars surround the hotel . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The smooth metal slid away from in front of her box-like boots to reveal the surface of the space station , now only a hundred metres below the shuttle . |
| 5 | The ship 's gun BOOMED ! and the shot fell only a hundred metres away . |
| 6 | Found on rocky coastal areas , younger wrasse live only a few metres deep , while larger specimens can be found deeper than 15 metres . |
| 7 | At source , a basalt lava may be moving at twenty or more kilometres an hour ; at the far end it may be oozing forward like treacle at only a few metres per hour ; so the temperature of a magma will obviously affect the style of an eruption considerably . |
| 8 | This movement , perhaps only a few metres per hour , continues until the supply dies away at source , and the nose of the flow gradually slows down and stops , still and silent . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | But the ground conditions in some parts of Europe make good results extremely difficult to obtain : some areas of Portugal , for instance , have field sizes of only a few metres and exhibit multi-level and multi-seasonal cropping . |
| 11 | In this particular case , the porosity is present in basin plain sediments ( Clark and Tallbacka 1980 ) and therefore the potential pay is only a few metres in thickness . |
| 12 | In its full-page and horrendously expensive advertisements in the national press , and now ( the latest manifestation ) in a booklet with a cover that at only a few metres distance looks like gold-tooled morocco , it comes perilously close to transgressing those rules of the Advertising Standards Authority that ensure that all ads are honest , fair , accurate , unimpeachable and altogether above reproach . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Then , waiting until everyone else had taken their pictures , I crept forward until I was only a few metres from the bird . |
| 15 | The gap between the two , although only a few metres wide , is deep enough for my boat to pass through at any state of tide . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | A beam flashed across the runway only a few metres away from the shuttle 's nose . |
| 18 | Bernice glanced over her shoulder and was relieved to see that Francis and Elaine were only a few metres behind her . |
| 19 | The creature was only a few metres away now . |
| 20 | The woman stopped , only a few metres away now , and exchanged a glance with Ace before turning slowly to face Defries . |
| 21 | Eventually a large branch with lots of other branches on it and lots of leaves — half a bush , practically — snags only a few metres down the shaft and we stop , breathless , sweating , trembling from exertion and delayed shock . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Only a few metres through its portals and already the spell was reaching her , soothing her jagged nerves . |
| 24 | In the seventeenth century a weaver called Buffarot led a local revolt , and was broken on the wheel only a few metres from where we 're sitting . ’ |
| 25 | The weed was only a few metres from where Ell had slept . |
| 26 | But this strip of superior vines is very thin , just a hundred metres in parts , as the communal boundary of Cramant hives off most of the vineyards . |
| 27 | To pull back just a few metres on an Alpine climb is a dozen times harder than on the flat . |
| 28 | For the 3 weeks I 've been there , there 's been shelling every night just a few metres from where we were . |
| 29 | Below about a thousand metres oxygen concentrations are fairly static down to the a minimum between five hundred and a thousand metres depth so they 're fairly static . |
| 30 | The ground heaved for about a hundred metres , more turf broke through and the smell increased . |