Example sentences of "metres [adv] from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | About twenty metres down from the top , Priestley realized that the tin they had left in the cairn in fact contained their exposed photographic plates , and that what they were carrying down with them was the tin containing the record of their ascent . |
| 2 | I stopped about two metres down from the summit and quietly cocked the gun , inspecting the composite steel and nylon pellet before placing it in the chamber and snicking the gun closed . |
| 3 | One obvious problem , with implications for any GIS input , is that the effects are highly localized , with little measurable field effect more than a few dozen metres away from the route centre-lines . |
| 4 | When she was about fifty metres away from the building she heard some people behind her , but she did not stop . |
| 5 | The wings , tail and engines were charred black and brown and wreckage was seen 200 metres away from the crash site . |
| 6 | The trunks that fall over sometimes take root several metres away from the base of the tree , at which point a new tree will grow up . |
| 7 | Approximately four metres away from the driver 's head position is a large white screen ( 1.5 metres high by 1.7 metres wide ) . |
| 8 | At the end of our tour we visited the airport chapel , a place which offers a haven of peace and tranquility only metres away from the bustle of departure lounges . |
| 9 | A beam flashed across the runway only a few metres away from the shuttle 's nose . |
| 10 | The long term effects have not been established , but sit two metres away from the TV screen to be safe . |
| 11 | Then they counted neutrons 50 metres away from the cell to get an estimate of the background level due to neutrons coming from cosmic rays or the natural environment of the laboratory . |
| 12 | When this became general knowledge later , there was general unease at this way of measuring the background ; the neutron flux 50 metres away from the cell measured for 50 hours could be very different than that at the cell site , even if the cell had been absent , measured for a different 50 hours . |
| 13 | Then why do the children in the school just 500 metres away from the plant get so aggressive every time the cloud envelops the school ? |