Example sentences of "[adj] metres [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lock entrance measured 107 metres by 21.34 metres with a depth over the sill at ordinary Spring Tides of 9 metres . |
| 2 | Edwards , a 26-year-old medical scientist , jumped 17.26 metres in the first round to move to third place on the world outdoor rankings for 1992 , behind Frank Rutherford of the Bahamas ( 17.41 metres ) and German Ralf Jaros ( 17.28 ) . |
| 3 | Instead , he ended up in the unfamiliar position of ninth with only 2.05 metres to his name after failing to get his five-stride training run-up in the groove . |
| 4 | ‘ I was surprised at Steve , ’ said Dick , after watching the world junior champion clear only a paltry 2.05 metres on Sunday compared to double European Cup winner Grant 's 2.25 . |
| 5 | I should like to mention again that the recent excavations at this point removed 5–6 metres of tarmac surface and replaced this with two fences a couple of feet apart with nothing between them . |
| 6 | Geothermal energy is based on the increase in underground temperature which is , on average , 1 degree centigrade per 30 metres of depth but in certain areas faults at plate boundaries allow higher temperatures at shallower depths . |
| 7 | About 30 metres of marine ripple-laminated siltstones represent the highstand deposits of the Homoceras undulatum Marine Band ( H&sub2bi ) . |
| 8 | At the start North Down man Ian Lyle shadowed Rowan but after two miles he lost contact and Albertville 's Paddy Branagh took up the pursuit , moving to within 30 metres of Rowan . |
| 9 | It caused slight fire damage to skirting board and smoke damage to 30 metres of corridor . |
| 10 | The vehicle was destroyed and 30 metres of fencing was damaged . |
| 11 | Both the late Don Dunford and Tom Pratt have used delta shapes , Don with a smaller ‘ pilot ’ delta about 30 metres above the main litter , and Tom with a stack of up to four deltas closely stacked barely a semi-span apart . |
| 12 | Rockhoppers nearly always nest in colonies up on the tops of cliffs , sometimes 30 metres above the sea , which , on the face of it , seems a daft place for a bird which can not fly ! |
| 13 | Light goes maybe 30 metres in the time it takes sound to travel the 0.2mm thickness of the emulsion . |
| 14 | A smaller culvert , 30 metres in length , crosses beneath Lasswade Road . |
| 15 | It has an external control unit , which can be sited up to 30 metres from the detector , and an automatic prism wiping device . |
| 16 | The time was 10.6 seconds , which was my fastest legal time to date ( that is , the wind speed was below 2 metres per second ) and would turn out to be my fastest that year . |
| 17 | The mean temperature in Champagne is 10.53°C sheltered at 2 metres above the ground and 11.21°C at 0.2 metres above the ground . |
| 18 | The highest land is only 2 metres above sea level and even this would be exposed to storm surges if mean sea level rose by 1 metre . |
| 19 | Properly drained and topped with about 2 metres of sand , they have become playing fields or ornamental gardens , with the seed-mulch mixture being spread by a machine much like an asphalt spreader . |
| 20 | A minimum of 2 metres of this unsuitable material was removed and replaced with suitable granular material . |
| 21 | The fifth one was to make a shelter out of a piece of plastic which was 2 metres by 1 metre , 3 pieces of wood and 3 pieces of string . |
| 22 | * However , a report by the South Pacific Regional Environment Programme puts anticipated sea level rise at 2 metres by 2100 , leading to a further diminution of fresh water supplies on the Pacific islands , which already face a shortage . |
| 23 | This was a large garment , about 5 metres wide and 2 metres in length . |
| 24 | 1 metre can be left bare against crop to control weed ( 2 metres in the case of seed crops ) . |
| 25 | We move through a band of forest and then start to climb steeply , going up over 300 metres at a good steady speed . |
| 26 | The killings took place within 300 metres of a road leading to a UNITA confinement area . |
| 27 | About 300 metres of each , I 've torn to make the covers so far but I 'm still doing it because each one has to be the right size and colour-coded by room . |
| 28 | British Gas Somerset District engineers had quite a challenge to install the new gas supply , as the castle is up a 60° gradient hill and then 300 metres of pipe had to ‘ scale ’ ramparts and battlements to the new meter . |
| 29 | A great crater had been formed , most of it below sea level , and soundings showed that where land had once stood 300 metres above sea level , the water was now 300 metres deep . |
| 30 | Eventually , in November 1944 , a plug of incandescent lava poked up through the middle of the elevated dome , and this gradually rose during the course of the next year until it was over a hundred metres above the top of the dome , and nearly 300 metres above normal ground level . |