Example sentences of "[noun pl] up [prep] [adj] metres " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vessels up to 170 metres long and 30 metres beam can be accommodated . |
| 2 | Tidal waves up to 15 metres high , triggered by an earthquake beneath the Pacific Ocean , crashed along 227 km of Nicaragua 's low-lying Pacific coast on Sept. 1 , killing more than 200 people , many of them children . |
| 3 | Waves up to 40 metres high have been recorded rushing inland , carving out valleys , stripping off deltas and wiping out hills . |
| 4 | The gold is associated with massive SW-NE trending quartz veins up to several metres wide and several kilometres long . |
| 5 | And in the even more classic ground of the Italian Apennines , where Kuenen and Migliorini first recognised the turbidity current , single graded beds up to 20 metres thick within the Macigno Sandstone are said to have been deposited by a single " whoosh " of turbid water . |
| 6 | Firstly , active and stabilised dune systems with irregular or moundy landforms comprise dune ridges and hillocks up to 30 metres high but , more usually , 5 metres high and 10 to 20 metres broad with intervening hollows and channels . |
| 7 | Pro-File compensates automatically at the reduced atmospheric pressure for dives up to 3,500 metres altitude . |
| 8 | Echoes of the signal alert them to possible prey , at ranges up to 80–90 metres in shallow waters . |
| 9 | About 700 men had been working at three pit levels up to 560 metres below the ground , over a 2 sq km area . |
| 10 | The second ‘ Standard for Indoor General Storage ’ N.F.P.A number 231 , deals with storage of materials up to 7.5 metres in height representing the broad range of combustibles , stored in solid or palletised piles . |
| 11 | This means you can ascend at 18 metres/minute from a ( maximum ) depth of 75 metres up to 18 metres . |
| 12 | From 18 metres up to six metres , the ascent rate warning will flash if you exceed 13 metres/minute , and from six metres to the surface you should not exceed a very safe nine metres per minute . |