Example sentences of "five metres " in BNC.
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1 | In some particularly difficult circumstances , such as constructing a footpath on deep peat , it could only be four to five metres a day . |
2 | ‘ I could n't run five metres . ’ |
3 | He drilled through submerged coral reefs off the island of Barbados , looking for the coral Acropora palmata , which can only live within five metres of sea level . |
4 | The limit is four or five metres . |
5 | But as a general rule the image must be at no more than five metres distance . |
6 | The council wants BR to cut trees only within five metres of the track . |
7 | In Jewish tradition the candelabrum tree , which is five metres tall , has seven branches , and is inscribed with events from both the old and New Testaments . |
8 | One of the simplest and most informative things to do is to measure the thickness of the pumice deposit at as many places as possible , plot these thicknesses on a map , and then draw lines on the map , rather like contour lines , linking points of equal ash thickness , say ten metres , five metres , one metre and so on . |
9 | Baxter found that a sow would cover her 30 kilometres inside a pen five metres square , and that several sows would happily farrow down together within such a small space . |
10 | I came storming through , caught him with about five metres to go and won in 10.23 seconds . |
11 | Then , five metres from the line , I felt a twinge in my hamstring . |
12 | It 's very easy to exaggerate in athletics , and five metres can become ten without much bother ; however , by the time Viktor Bryzgin got away on the anchor nobody doubted he was on his way to Soviet gold . |
13 | They stood in two rows , hooked up to the static lines , weighed down with parachutes and air tanks , waterproofed combat kits , clutching personal inflatable rafts attached with five metres of line to their belts , eyes tense behind the vizors of the face masks . |
14 | As with the other pumps in the range , the VS 160 comes with five metres of supply cable to make installation that much easier . |
15 | He played a game in his head , trying to count the boulders that fell within five metres : |
16 | With the exception of one line-out five metres from the Braintree goal line , where McDonald plucked the ball from the air to enable Mark Wadforth to make a pressure kick to reverse the attack , it was the visitors who were on top . |
17 | A sequence of profiles of nitrate in the unsaturated zone of the Chalk in Cambridgeshire shows downward movement of the concentration peak by about five metres . |
18 | An interesting point of law occurred during the test when New Zealand scored their first try through no.8 Zinzan Brooke following the award of a penalty five metres from the home goalline . |
19 | Retiring players will not be penalised if their failure to retire 10 metres is due to the rapidity with which the kick has been taken , but they may not stop retiring and enter the game until an opponent carrying the ball has run five metres ’ . |
20 | The last part of that law is crucial , in that the ball carrier can run five metres without a defender touching him . |
21 | If the penalty award is five metres from the goal-line , as in this case , then defending players must be standing on the goal-line when the kick is taken if they wish legally to prevent a try being scored . |
22 | If they are not on the goal-line five metres from the mark when the kick is taken and they then illegally prevent a try being scored the referee 's decision would be the award of a penalty try . |
23 | ‘ What kept you , Daak ? ’ she yelled , still five metres from the speeder . |
24 | Meanwhile my cotton body was wound on to great bolts , each one five metres long . |
25 | Five metres . |
26 | The thing — it must have been five metres across — rippled its flanges invitingly and eased right to where we stood . |
27 | He stood very still in the middle of the aisle five metres away from the bearded man 's gun . |
28 | Vaillant Thermocompact wall-hung gas boiler models VC 112E and 182E are now fully approved — BSI Kitemarked and British Gas service listed — for installations with flues up to a nominal five metres in length . |
29 | There is a large tower at one end of the church which is about twenty five metres high . |
30 | As the creature moved within five metres of her , she held on to the chair with both hands and ran straight at the creature 's unprotected stomach area . |