How To Use Metre In A Sentence
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As the earth's crust was forced upwards, it displaced hundreds of cubic metres of water along an area as large as 1000 km long and 100 km wide.
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And I think the resort is about 25% overpriced, considering the worn-down state of the place and the fact you can get a two-night package at the definitely more upmarket Avillion in Port Dickson (also not really PD, but a dozen kilometres south) from about RM800 as well.
Vacations: Tiara Beach Resort — Fusion Despatches
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The pump is capable of producing 1400 litres per hour at 16 rpm from a depth of 40 metres and is effective up to a depth of 100 metres.
Archive for » 2005 » September : Sustainablog
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It said the flood walls and embankments being proposed would vary in height between one and 1.8 metres and protect most of the village, including the A166, against a one in 100-year flooding event.
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The city is at an elevation of 2 000 metres.
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In the men's 4 x 200-metre relay team, he finished seventh.
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It ought to be pointed out that calculating passenger kilometres is an inexact science.
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Fire covered the carriageway and melted more than 600 sq metres of tarmac before the blaze was extinguished.
The Sun
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Consequently, they had to drop concrete piles 8 metres into the soil to provide a foundation.
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The run is a 825-metre stampede from the corral where the bulls are kept to the outdoor bullfighting arena where they will be invariably killed by matadors later in the day.
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Neither Pislar nor Knittel conceded and the two raced the full 2000 metres with Knittel finally getting the better of Pislar.
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In the seven games that they won the young squad travelled thousands of kilometres, lording it over 191 other contesting schools.
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Transistors, which next year will contain features measuring 45 nanometres, or billionths of a metre, have become so small that they leak substantial amounts of electricity.
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Sights like this, a whale beached off Cairns, found with six square metres of plastic in its body cavity, have caused outrage at the killing capacity of the plastic bag.
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This was replaced in 1956 by a bigger four-stroke engine offering 297 cubic centimetres of raw power.
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To our dismay, unknown to us there was a motel only three kilometres down the road.
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At 500 metres high, the soil is stony.
Food Watch
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It has not been easy to get sparring partners who are two metres tall and of good quality.
Times, Sunday Times
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The metre is the standard unit for measuring length in the SI system.
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Behind our chalet, which my daughter christened the Magic House, rose our very own mountain, at least 50 metres high.
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With the floor of the channel shallowing from 200 metres to 60 metres and at the same time a rock pinnacle, like a finger, rising up from the sea bed to 29 metres from the surface, there is no surprise that the whirlpool was once described as a 'conflux so dreadful that it spurns all description.
Found While Looking for Something Else
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The two unsold detached villas have asking prices of 19,350 and 19,651 yuan a square metre.
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Aquesta mòdul superior actuava d’eix central, a partir del qual s’organitzaven els diferents espais de la biblioteca: un primer anell a l’interior, amb els prestatges dels llibres, i en el perimetre de la biblioteca, els punts i les sales de lectura.
Projecte per a la Biblioteca de la Universitat de Washington | [bauen]
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This fifteen metre, golden statue has sat here for 30 years and while its bulk is impressive, don't expect meditative solemnity; the forecourt is noisy with music, stalls and snack bars.
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One curious survivor from the early days of headed cabbages is the enormously tall Jersey or walking stick cabbage, whose stem is as high as a man and has been recorded as reaching 5 metres.
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The rocks are deformed into kilometre-scale monoclinal folds, the axes of which plunge moderately to steeply north northwest.
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The bus is a far lower environmental burden than passenger cars, calculated on the number of passengers per kilometre.
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Maybe it was the Royal Marines, the Ghurkas, and the Brigade of Guards whose bandsmen were a hundred metres away, but I don't think so.
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I would recommend doing between eight and 12 repetitions on a fairly stiff hill about 800 metres long.
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Sand volcanoes range in diameter from a few centimetres to several metres.
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It is located in a layer at an average height of 12 kilometres above the Earth's surface.
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The leak forced a controlled descent of the giant balloon about 250 kilometres to the west of the launch site.
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To escape from the Moon's gravitational field, a sample must be accelerated to a velocity above 2.4 kilometres per second.
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The amhrán or song metres have a richly assonated stanzaic form, and are also accentual.
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We saw long tailed ducks - thousands of them, packed together in rafts hundreds of metres long.
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The bomb shelter has concrete walls that are three metres thick.
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Will drunk college students attempt to scale the seven metre structure?
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_Solus_ was lost through haplography ( 'fulua solus': the elongated 's' form common in manuscripts would have facilitated the error) and _tristis_ interpolated to restore the metre.
The Last Poems of Ovid
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The sensor can time this journey down to the nanosecond, ESA says, meaning that the instrument is accurate to within two centimetres.
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One cubic metre of spruce weighs about 450 kilograms.
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The poems of Homer have the most perfect metre, the hexameter, which is also called heroic.
Essays and Miscellanies
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It takes in 20 wibbly-wobbly crossings, five metres above the ground, then a shriek-inducing zip-wire descent.
The Sun
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You don't get there any quicker by being 20 centimetres rather than 20 metres from the vehicle in front.
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Each day, in visibility of over 30 metres, we encounter black and white-tipped reef and grey sharks, large pelagics like dogtoothed tuna and many of the four hundred other species of fish which inhabit these waters.
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A country that imports wheat rather than growing it locally therefore saves 1,000 cubic metres of water for every tonne it imports.
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Crews endure loneliness, sensory deprivation, disorientating microgravity and the anxiety of knowing the vacuum of space is kept from them by an aluminium hull just a few millimetres thick.
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The Upper Series consists of a main passage about 200 metres long, divided into two by a right-angled bend where it connects with The Bye Pass Crawl from the Far Eastern Bedding Plane.
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Thus, water reaching the playa continues across it towards the lowest point, and flows in this direction persist long enough to erode and maintain channels that are metres in width and decimetres deep.
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You know how it is, when you're sitting out in the dark, 50 kilometres from the nearest place of inhabitation, and you turn on the light, even the tiniest little three LED gizmo.
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Three-bedroom duplex houses start at £174,950 and have around 124 square metres of accommodation.
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Each of the two-bedroom duplex townhouses in this phase will range in size from 82 to 98 square metres, with prices from €224,900.
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Our modern metric units, like the gram or the centimetre, originate from their handy description of everyday quantities.
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For the ground bass of recurrent sound is poetic metre.
The Times Literary Supplement
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It runs for about 100 metres from the timber circle within the great henge to the river.
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At 193 centimetres, with a huge leap and a booming kick, it was believed that the young star would slot neatly into a key forward post with the Blues.
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There is no ebb and flow in his metre more than on the shores of the Adriatic, but wave follows wave with equable gainings and recessions, the one sliding back in fluent music to be mingled with and carried forward by the next.
Among My Books Second Series
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Fish and whole forests died and water became non-potable, turning 30 kilometres of the river system into a moonscape.
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By comparison, the mantle of the giant squid, Architeuthis dux, is not known to attain more than 2.25 metres.
Boing Boing: March 30, 2003 - April 5, 2003 Archives
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Worse, the beam shut off while I was still four-metres from the ground.
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The cylinders, it was claimed, were designed to be fitted together to form the barrel of a giant 40-metre gun.
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The researchers combined the copper patterns with millimetre-sized round holes in the surface, which leads to additional resonances as in so called photonic crystals and further improves the absorption.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
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Northern Territory News reported that a three-metre "saltie" spied on a group of fishermen before tucking into the shark they had just reeled in.
The Guardian World News
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There is a little shop about b7 metres down the road from me (or 150 metres, if you want it in denary).
Army Rumour Service
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The water then collects underground to emerge at various spots in the Maligne Canyon some 20 km away, another 425 metre descent.
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Dr Leander Starr Jameson led a group of over 500 men with the intention of taking control of the town, but was met and overpowered by the burghers in Krugersdorp, 30 kilometres north west of the town.
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It has grown more than two metres high this year despite being in a relatively small container and has covered a decent area of wall with its ferny foliage with a few stems finding their way into the bamboo growing nearby.
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The mineralization, consisting mainly of smithsonite (zinc carbonate), iron oxides and galena varied in true width from 2 to 5 metres.
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The treatment plant currently processes 1.2 million cubic metres of water a day, representing 40 per cent of the total water used in Hong Kong each day.
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After following a narrow gravel road for about 200 metres we took off down a side track.
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The operators want to dig deeper seams within the quarry - up to 15 metres below the existing level.
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[14] In the Greek, however short the metre and however long the ode, there is no weariness from monotony; for the interchange of anapaest, dactyl, and spondee, in the lines of from only four to six syllables each, makes a constant and pleasing variety.
Songs and Hymns of the Earliest Greek Christian Poets
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Measuring at an overwhelming 2.4 metres long and weighing 340 kilograms, this fish is shown at a seafood market in Wenzhou, east China Zhejiang Province on 23 January, 2007.
2007 » January
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The Manchester centre is the nucleus of a hi-tech surveillance system and features an 18-metre monitor wall that can display up to 180 high-resolution images.
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The nuclear waste has been entombed in concrete many metres under the ground.
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Patches can range from a few millimetres to a few centimetres in size.
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He won the 100 metres in record time.
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Although there is a little train which can take you around, we found the dusk walks more interesting, with only a ditch (which disappeared in the dark) to separate us from the animals which were just metres away ... such as cheetahs, giraffes, hippos, rhinos, tapirs, hyenas, etc.
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The 60 metre steel towers, which were manufactured in Denmark, were delivered in three sections and have a total weight of 90 tons.
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As the runner blasted out of the blocks in the 400 metres last week, it looked like she might make qualification.
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We finally made camp on top of a hill 674 metres in height which we called kampong Gunong.
Through Central Borneo; an Account of Two Years' Travel in the Land of Head-Hunters Between the Years 1913 and 1917
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The rock was mostly poor quality shale and mudstone leaving a smooth soapy floor underfoot and this continued for a few hundred metres without respite.
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The 800-metres specialist clocked a season's best 48.4 in the 400 metres and was even quicker in his leg of the relay.
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They have been entombed in a cramped steel cage almost a kilometre beneath the surface since April 25 when an earthquake in the southern state of Tasmania triggered a rockfall.
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Afghan engineers and their mentors pieced together a 42-metre, metal "overbridge" earlier this week at Kandahar Airfield and then moved parts of the Meccano-like structure a few kilometres to the blast site.
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Some of these ships, such as the Cali, just 45 metres off George Town, foundered on the reefs.
Discover an extraordinary underwater world in the Cayman Islands
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After a few metres, the floor turns to rock, and the passage exhibits signs of vadose entrenchment.
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Herondas too, the author of mimes written in choliambs (‘limping iambics’), a metre typical of the archaic iambist Hipponax, dedicates an apologetic-programmatic poem, Mimiambus 8, to the defence of his poetics.
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A motor car was parked in the alleyway about three metres from the bakery door and alongside the Alliance building end wall.
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The helicopter can zip along at about 150 kilometres an hour.
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Your Silent Nights and Joy to the Worlds manage to be special and festive without first being coated with a cubic kilometre of sickly sentimentality.
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Since the end of the 18th century we know of the existence of a curious structure in the region of the sinus, the glomus caroticum or carotid body which, in man, extends over only a few millimetres.
Physiology or Medicine 1938 - Presentation Speech
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If sufficient, the firm is planning to build a wind farm of up to 30 turbines which, at 90 metres high, would be visible for miles around.
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Only a few hundreds of kilometres from Lusaka off the Great East road, Luangwa has seen very little development ever since it was established as a boma.
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The designed maximum capacity of the supply system is 1.1 billion cubic metres per annum.
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This meant that you'd be driving along, and suddenly have to take a detour, sometimes of up to 15 kilometres.
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They dug a channel about 100 metres long to take it around the north-easterly side of Cannon Hill.
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You try to think how much fabric you will need, translating shapes into metres, or in my case, yards which I then convert to metric.
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We believe there will be a 400 metre portage involved so it is important to get the experience under our belt.
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There was a sheer drop of fifty metres to the rocks below.
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Continue along the farm track for another hundred metres.
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The densities per square kilometre of its human and livestock populations are greater than anywhere else in the continent.
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In 1997 all trees more than four metres high were catalogued with their botanical name, their common name, their country of origin and other information.
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These vary in width from a few millimetres to a few hundred metres.
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Gillingham won the silver medal in the 200 metres at Seoul.
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He ambled over to the nearest tree - happily some metres from where I stood hidden, and turned towards the tower.
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The average heat loss from a single glazed window is 5 watts per metre squared.
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Arcos, 30 kilometres east of Jerez, is perched on a huge rock which thrusts 200 metres up from the Rio Guadalete.
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Ten metres from the line I saw Ray, twisted to dip and strained my hamstring.
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The 7,430 square metre building is being bought for €14.1 million by Harvest Financial Services, which will syndicate the investment.
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The Morgan typically shuttles this material some 75 to 100 metres to the chipper, swinging the drags so the logs are aligned straight into the chipper infeed.
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In the case of a recognised accident, the rider shall be entitled to a neutralisation during the number of laps closest to 1300 metres.
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A real bonus of this property is the converted attic, an almost 14 square metre room with a large dormer window.
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The 1,432-tonne, 72 metre ship arrived on Monday and departed for Dublin this morning.
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The following year (April 1967), I was within 400 metres of the previous sighting, and close to a patch of "ploughed" ground which I had seen on my way up the valley about six days before.
Archive 2007-01-01
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They fired several rounds from handguns and semi-automatic rifles at the vehicle, which finally came to a halt about 500 metres from the depot with all four wheels punctured.
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A Championship course, 18 holes, par 72, 6.066 mètres (Men)/5.235 mètres (Women) This course, that offers wide Fairways dotted with olive trees and sand trapes within a driving range, is indeed a challenge for players of all handicaps.
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The loonie is a seven-gram, 11-sided disk - technically a hendecagon - 26.5 millimetres in diameter and 1.75 millimetres thick.
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- This diamond discovery was from a multi-phased xenolith-bearing lamprophyre dyke system, approximately 6 metres wide in its surface exposure.
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This form of poetry comprising more than a dozen couplets in the same metre has come a long way and so have ghazal singers.
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A few metres along, the group of young Spanish mothers are putting on clothes, shaking out sarongs, and collecting sunglasses and children.
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About 100 kilometres away from the boma, a bare-footed lad trudged his way to a ramshackle school in Luumbo village down in the Gwembe valley.
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The deepest mines are four kilometres underground.
Times, Sunday Times
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For instance, the view down Rue Saint-Honoré had to be 200 metres long, while the sound stage was only 40 metres wide.
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He was held up five metres from the line and might have scored had he not changed direction at the last moment.
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His sporting heroes are Paula Radcliffe and World Record 200 metres holder Michael Johnston.
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The whales had beached near the Dolphin Bay boat ramp and another larger pod had come ashore near a caravan park on Mandalay Beach, four kilometres west of Busselton.
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More than 2,000 car-crazed students are motoring from the French capital and across 6,000 kilometres of African desert in a different kind of race.
Yahoo! News: Top Stories
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Fire covered the carriageway and melted more than 600 sq metres of tarmac before the blaze was extinguished.
The Sun
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Stephenson, who constructed both projects, believed that gradients should be less than 1 percent and that curves should have very wide radii of at least a kilometre.
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This study reports on a mesoscale normal fault zone, intraformational in Oligocene argillaceous sediments from the Boom Formation, containing several metre-scale normal fault strands.
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Unable to swim or summon help, he soon lost consciousness and floated face down just a few metres off the beach at the resort of Los Christianos in May.
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Typically, rhymes, metres and morals must come strict and clear.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Their work is so thorough that in the areas in which they live almost all the soil to a depth of many centimetres has passed through the alimentary tract of an earthworm at some time.
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A few kilometres away from Madras city on the Coromandal coast, the boom of chisel and hammer rises in the sandy wilderness, above crashing waves and soughing winds.
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All along the rupture, the seafloor moved vertically about ten metres, which displaced hundreds of kilometres of overlaying water resulting in a massive tsunami.
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Under planning law the maximum height for a fence or hedge is 2 metres.
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As the fire swept over the car the fuel tank began to boil and a six metre jet of flames spurted out of the back of the car.
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In fact, metrology is concerned with nothing less than finding a method of being able to control the constancy of the international prototype metre, the basis of the whole metric system, so accurately that not only will every change, however small, which could possibly occur in it be accurately measured, but also if the prototype were entirely lost, it could nevertheless be reproduced so exactly that no microscope could ever reveal any divergence from the original prototype.
Nobel Prize in Physics 1907 - Presentation Speech
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There were tangled ribbons of metal scattered for hundreds of metres, variously shaped satellitic craters and mounds, but of the captain and his trench there was not a single sign.
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
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Just 50 metres in diameter, the bommie could easily be circumnavigated several times.
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From Gokyo Ri four 8000-metre peaks (Cho Oyu, Everest, Lhotse and Makalu) are visible at once.
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A few metres before the end of the race, Jenkins surged into the lead.
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Pygmies average about 1.5 metres in height.
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Experts who have been diving to the wreck off Portsmouth for the last month have excavated a five-metre-long piece of wood which they believe is the front stem of the ship's keel.
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The cruise to the ferry landing is another 700 metres.
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It is the highest rally in the series, the undulating roads climbing to more than 2700 metres on hillsides awash with cacti, pine trees and river crossings.
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Perceiving the underlying metre of the limerick is not just a simple linear experience.
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The goal was Gafsa, some hundred and seventy kilometres inland, and if the weather stayed hot and the thermals were good they might make it.
SKORPION'S DEATH
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An eight-metre yacht is due to arrive here today after it was dismasted and almost capsized in gale-force winds along the Wild Coast late on Tuesday night.
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We can deduce the stress pattern of a word from the metre of a line.
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The remains are less than a metre below the church floor, contrary to received wisdom that they were interred in a deep family vault.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is a shallow subsidence flash, no more than a metre or two in depth at most.
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The regular shaped site has 25 metres frontage to Ravensdale Road and there is only a two-storey administration office block and a garage on the site.
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It is intended for use at a range of three to six metres to knock enemy troops out of action without putting civilian lives at risk.
Times, Sunday Times
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She achieved a throw of sixty metres in the javelin event.
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Indeed, the heats of the 10,000 metres were his Olympic debut.
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The overmantel contains its original rectangular mirror plate and has a moulded bead and leaf frame measuring 83 centimetres high by 150 wide.
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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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A mature specimen will spread four metres or more and like other large flowered hybrids is ideal for summer flowers on walls, fences and pergolas, or for growing through a climbing rose or an earlier flowering tree like laburnum.
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Occupying a 43 square kilometre patch of lowland, it's home to 155 orphaned and displaced simians who share 99.6 per cent of our genetic make up.
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For technical reasons spatial frequency is expressed in cycles per degree rather than cycles per centimetre.
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A metre is a unit of length and a kilogram is a unit of weight.
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This is defined by UNCLOS according to a complex formula, but in no case can it extend beyond the greater of 350 nautical miles from the baseline or 100 nautical miles from the 2500m isobath (a line connecting all points lying at a depth of 2500 metres).
Signature of the Treaty between the Government of Australia and the Government of New Zealand establishing Certain Exclusive Economic Zone and Continental Shelf Boundaries
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The crucial trick is that although both the electrodes and the electrolyte appear solid, they are actually finely structured at the nanometre scale a nanometre is a billionth of a metre.
The Economist: Correspondent's diary
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The beauty of its composition would be destroyed, he said, if one were to move any of the vertical or horizontal black lines just a millimetre or two.
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The 6-stress line is called the alexandrine (probably from the name of an Old French poem in this metre).
The Principles of English Versification
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Physically he had been just one millimetre closer to Doreen than ever before, but emotionally he had crossed a frontier.
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The Younger Edda is a prose paraphrase of, and commentary on, these poems and others which are lost, together with a treatise on metre, written by the historian
The Edda, Volume 1 The Divine Mythology of the North, Popular Studies in Mythology, Romance, and Folklore, No. 12
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This fabulous wool Audrey design costs 110 per sq metre.
Times, Sunday Times
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Electrons move at a speed of a few kilometres per second through a circuit, whereas light travels at nearly 300,000 kilometres per second.
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‘There are likely to be central pedestrian refuges up to 1.8 metres wide,’ said planning officer Sian Watson.
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Teams then lined up on the water for two rounds of 400-metre sprint racing.
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The spring water was dripping from 10 pairs of stalactites, each over 100 metres in length.
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For the Vedas, at least, were considered to be of divine authority, and their words, metres, and grammar were regarded with a superstitious awe, such as reminds us of what has been called the "bibliolatry" of the Jewish
Pantheism, Its Story and Significance Religions Ancient and Modern
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At the Festival Games he cleared 3.80 metres and was awarded his school colours.
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She completed the 500 metres in record time .
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This new model of drilling machine can bore through solid rock ten metres deep.
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The two houses stood 500 metres apart.
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This textbook provides an introduction to turbulent motion occurring naturally in the ocean on scales ranging from millimetres to hundreds of kilometres.
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The road is built over approximately 200 kilometres of lakes and portages in order to allow for transportation of fuel, housing materials and other goods required by the community.
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The culprits are psocids - or booklice - which are common but harmless insects between one and two millimetres long.
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The moonlets range from 32 km to just six kilometres in diameter, the team said in the British weekly, Nature.
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This flight is now proceeding to Paris at a speed of 1 000 kilometres an hour.
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The reef is just a few metres from the shore and you can take a car and shore-dive most of the sites, each of which is clearly signposted with yellow stones.
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Charges differ throughout the country but 40p per cubic metre is a rough guide.
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Unfortunately, the Dingle man managed to get his ball just nine metres from the hole but it was a very credible attempt for someone unused to the tee.
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However, they were rewarded soon after as Brook touched down a pushover from ten metres.
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In 1986, ESA's Giotto spacecraft performed the closest comet fly-by ever achieved by any spacecraft (at a distance of 600 kilometres from Halley).
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The tragedies follow the death on Sept. 4 of 21-year-old bodyboarder Kyle Burden, whose legs were bitten off by a shark described as 4.5 metres long at a beach south of Perth.
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A fortnight ago, 800,000 square kilometres of land were under water across the region.
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He drove a short distance along the quayside away from the vessel and towards the town and then drove a few metres off the road and parked amongst some trees.
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Possess the modern sweater production equipment and workshop more than 5000 of square metre.
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Thirteen nervous minutes into the contest Doran converted a free from 38 metres but Mulligan squared the match in the 16th minute after interplay between Smith and McGoldrick.
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The lavas are cut by steep normal faults which have a maximum throw of a few hundred metres at slow spreading centres, and smaller throws at faster spreading rates.
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There they climb into a series of wooden constructions three metres high, made with tree trunks lashed together with lianas like tree houses perched above the flood.
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The bridge along the Oyamari Road would run for a distance of about 600 metres and the Highways Department has been sanctioned Rs. 28.50 crore.
The Hindu - Front Page
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Large compost heaps often get too hot, so aim for a heap of one cubic metre in volume.
Times, Sunday Times
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One of them was a really courageous person who travelled a few thousand kilometres on a two-wheeler bike.
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Many of the thallophytes, bryophytes and pteridophytes are found here exclusively because of the special topographical and climatic features of the locality, and are not to be found for hundreds of kilometres around in other areas.
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At present our sports hall is tiny - about nine metres square.
