Example sentences of "metres from [noun] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are magnificent birds to watch in flight , soaring effortlessly on wings which can be over two metres from tip to tip . |
| 2 | The adult animal would have stood 12.5 metres tall and stretched 40 metres from head to tail . |
| 3 | The overall plan , extending about 140 metres from north to south and the same from east to west , is roughly square ; the outer walls have extensions and indents that imply design from the centre outwards . |
| 4 | The archaeological evidence is necessarily very incomplete , but it suggests that the temple was at the centre of a town whose built-up area was approximately 1,200 metres from north to south and 800 metres from east to west . |
| 5 | The external skeleton is highly versatile ; it serves the tiny water flea as well as it does the giant Japanese spider crab that measures over three metres from claw to claw . |
| 6 | The archaeological evidence is necessarily very incomplete , but it suggests that the temple was at the centre of a town whose built-up area was approximately 1,200 metres from north to south and 800 metres from east to west . |
| 7 | She measured a shade under twenty-one metres from nose to tail , and a shade over half that across , from wingtip to stubby wingtip . |