Example sentences of "[det] metres [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He sensed Rodo 's presence a few metres ahead of him . |
| 2 | The demonstrators stopped their march , a few metres away from a police line deployed in the temple 's front square . |
| 3 | As they stared intently at a cameraman lurking on the bank , a family of mink , unnoticed peered curiously at them , from only a few metres away . |
| 4 | A beam flashed across the runway only a few metres away from the shuttle 's nose . |
| 5 | The creature was only a few metres away now . |
| 6 | The woman stopped , only a few metres away now , and exchanged a glance with Ace before turning slowly to face Defries . |
| 7 | They ran for the shelter of a large chunk of dislodged temple that had fallen a few metres away . |
| 8 | Slightly smaller than Jeanneau 's new protégé , and displayed with considerably less ostentation only a few metres away , was the neat little Sprint designed by Joubert/Nivelt and built by Archambault . |
| 9 | He got up from his seat as quickly as his thick furs and old muscles would allow , kicked some slates and books out of his way across the glass floor and started inspecting a pillar a few metres away . |
| 10 | They are spaced only a few metres apart , each wearing the garish colours of their clan , two on the kiteline , others as reel carriers , coaches or vociferous fans . |
| 11 | The importance of getting a good start now becomes obvious , since if you fall only a few metres behind in the first minute after the start you fall into everyone else 's dirty wind and drop even further back . |
| 12 | Ace caught it , almost pulled Defries from her perch , released it , and rolled to a stop a few metres further down the slope . |
| 13 | On moderately dry ground , for example along the coast of Antarctica , unsorted polygons are convex shapes in the ground up to a few metres across , ringed by a network of furrows that mark the positions of persistent cracks ( Figure 3.8 ) . |
| 14 | And you 're your graph paper few metres long , or you 'd have to cramp this scale up quite a bit bring it closer together . |
| 15 | While I was some metres away from it , the ruined door of the tower was flung wide , and the monster emerged . |
| 16 | Daak was several metres ahead of her . |
| 17 | He could even smell a packet of cigarettes hidden in a coat pocket several metres away ! |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | To capture the sound of a band or orchestra , the head must of necessity be placed several metres away , and the result is disappointing . |
| 20 | She was staring at a party of five men , heavily armed , who had appeared from behind a rock pile and now stood , several metres away , pointing machine guns at us . |
| 21 | You erect a radar dish several metres across in your garden , point it at a satellite in the sky and dip into the menu of television and radio programmes that are continually being bounced across the world by broadcast stations . |
| 22 | This was at the Apollo 17 site where a sample was chipped from a boulder several metres across . |