Example sentences of "[verb] a hundred metres " in BNC.

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1 Using a scale a one centimetre representing a hundred metres So that 'll be nine centimetres .
2 The kite string is making an angle of forty degrees there and it 's got a hundred metres of the line payed out .
3 Would his lungs bake , and his eyes poach , and his skin crisp to crackling before he had even fallen or slid a hundred metres ?
4 She had not walked a hundred metres before she tripped over a loose stone and went crashing over a steep overhang .
5 Some , from lower viewpoints , gave glimpses of the faceted dome that covered the expanse of space ; others looked down and revealed the four tiny figures balanced a hundred metres above a vast , circular , grey plain .
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