Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] a [adj] metres " in BNC.
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| 1 | The water was deep in the middle , so I had to swim for a few metres . |
| 2 | Cram 's club-mate David Sharpe , looking for an 800 metres time inside 1 min 46.2 secs , moved further down the pecking order in the two-lap event after quick times by two of his rivals in Dijon : Wolverhampton 's Steve Heard , who was third in 1 mins 45.65 secs , and Haringey 's David Strang , fourth in 1:45.85 . |
| 3 | CARL Lewis , who bleated because he was n't allowed to run in the Olympics against Linford Christie , has ducked out of the World Cup in Cuba where they would have met for a 100 metres showdown later this month . |
| 4 | Curbishley already had the English schools time , thanks to a 44.3 secs run in her first track outing at Hull this season , before she was injured in a 400 metres hurdles race at York . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | Unfortunately there was to be no 200 metres event , but there were some invitation events scheduled including a 60 metres , and having won that event at the Cosford Games I thought that I would be selected . |
| 7 | We ran the race as if we were competing in a 100 metres , charging full tilt at the bends . |
| 8 | The survey was based on an assessment of litter and dog fouling in a 500 metres circle round the parliament building . |
| 9 | The 28-year-old graphic artist , who won the event three years ago , eased into a five metres lead at the first kilometre mark and only Heaton veteran Geraldine Beedle managed to stay close . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The defences were increased by a million metres of barbed wire and extensive minefields in 1912 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The Australian desert , for example , is structurally an ancient worn-down plateau of crystalline and ancient sedimentary rocks , the more resistant of which rise to a thousand metres or more ( a few thousand feet ) above the general surface level . |
| 14 | We stayed about a hundred metres behind them . |