I learned later that these boreholes, which were dug by cattle ranchers and reached down 100 meters and more, had lowered the water table. |
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So I used the first 900 meters of the 1500 as a warm-down to flush the lactic acid out of my system. |
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One pump requires 28,000 watts of electricity and the main pool has a capacity of 10,000 cubic meters of water. |
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By buying an additional receiver, anyone could pick up a radio frequency with a GPS position corrected to within several meters of accuracy. |
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With a working width of 4.5 meters, the HT jigger is the largest such dyeing unit installed in Italy. |
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The wandering albatross is the largest of all albatrosses, with a wingspan of up to 3.5 meters. |
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Police say the weapon used in the shootings was likely an assault rifle or a hunting rifle, accurate up to 650 meters. |
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But if meters are being put in affordable homes then other measures must be put in so water can be recycled, such as water butts. |
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Inside the pyramid Zozers burial chamber was quarried 25 meters below out of the rock beneath it. |
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The uppermost molding, or abacus, of this capital is 2.8 meters wide. |
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Absolute positioning accuracies of better than 5 meters from 3-kilometer range have been demonstrated, which are adequate for targeting of today's and near-future weapons. |
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Later European languages, in admiration of Greek and Roman poetry with their quantitative meters, have often tried to replicate the musical character of ancient verse. |
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One hundred meters from the entrance to the Korengal we stop for breakfast. |
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There is now a black dot in a cluster of reeds about two hundred meters downstream. |
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These eolian loess deposits may be very deep, even hundreds of meters, as in areas of China and the Midwestern United States of America. |
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One copper mine at Great Orme in North Wales, extended to a depth of 70 meters. |
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The highest elevation is only wetted by the tops of sea spray, the lowest is several meters deep. |
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Some species, such as Cidaris abyssicola, can live down to several thousands of meters deep. |
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Most species live in relatively shallow waters from the low tide line to 100 meters, while others prefer much deeper water. |
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The largest structures are 10 kilometers in diameter and reach 700 meters high. |
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The fishermen pull their nets hundreds of meters wide in a circle around the dolphin groups, in the expectation that they will net a tuna shoal. |
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The influence of these currents is mainly experienced at the mixed layer of the ocean surface, often from 400 to 800 meters of maximum depth. |
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Whereas drilling at depths exceeding 500 meters has been conducted since 1995, only a few deep gas fields have been explored commercially. |
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In major storms, the largest waves offshore are about 15 meters high and have a period of about 15 seconds. |
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One of Norway's largest is Tyrifjorden at 63 meters above sea level and an average depth at 97 meters most of the lake is under sea level. |
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For instance Hornindalsvatnet is at least 500 meters deep and water takes an average of 16 years to flow through the lake. |
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These channels can be as small as one centimeter wide or as large as several meters. |
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Due to the volume of ice on land, sea level was approximately 120 meters lower than present. |
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The total uplift from the end of deglaciation depends on the local ice load and could be several hundred meters near the center of rebound. |
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In practice, this typically extends to the edge of the continental shelf, with depths around 200 meters. |
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Thus beach sand can move downbeach in a zig zag fashion many tens of meters per day. |
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Areas where the land lies less than a few meters above sea level are at particular risk from storm surge inundation. |
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At the continental shelf edge, usually about 200 meters deep, the gradient greatly increases and is known as the continental slope. |
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By 2013 only a few ULCCs remain in service, none of which are more than 400 meters long. |
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Generally, this mine type is set to float just below the surface of the water or as deep as five meters. |
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Each run covers between one and two hundred meters, and the ships must move slowly in a straight line, making them vulnerable to enemy fire. |
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Males find females by following their scent trails, sometimes tracking them for hundreds of meters a day. |
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Epiphytic orchids, those that grow upon a support, have modified aerial roots that can sometimes be a few meters long. |
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On drying, the capsules may eject seeds with considerable force to distances of several meters. |
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Precipitation patterns vary widely, ranging from several meters of water per year to less than a millimeter. |
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Thus aquatic plants, algae, and other photosynthetic organisms can live in water up to hundreds of meters deep, because sunlight can reach them. |
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Evidence of the latter would since have been covered by a sea level rise of hundreds of meters following the last ice age. |
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Modern soundings to 10,994 meters have since been found near the site of the Challenger's original sounding. |
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The repository contains more than 7,200 meters of core, from every ocean and sea, and many other samples. |
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Archeological evidence of the latter would have been covered by the sea level rise of more than 120 meters since the last ice age. |
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Waves and wind then act to compress these ice particles into larger plates, of several meters in diameter, called pancake ice. |
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How close he didn't realize until the machine slipped over the grasstops, coming into view just two meters away. |
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Any RFID interrogator within 30 meters can read an RFID tag in active mode. |
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Elster Metering makes gas and electricity meters, and is based in the north of Luton on the opposite side of the railway to Vauxhall. |
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In the Atlanta games in 1996, the highlight was 200 meters runner Michael Johnson annihilating the world record in front of a home crowd. |
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In the quantitative meters in Sanskrit a heavy syllable is considered to be equal to two morae and a light syllable equivalent to one mora. |
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Similarly, the length in meters of a degree of longitude can be calculated as. |
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Kenenisa Bekele and Tirunesh Dibaba are also dominant runners, particularly in the 5,000 and 10,000 meters in which they hold the world records. |
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The Wagah railway station lies 400 meters to the south and only 100 meters from the border. |
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The highest point in the province is Mount Mutis in the South Central Timor Regency, 2,427 meters above sea level. |
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Between 20 million and 50 million cubic meters of this brine form every second. |
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The size of mature conifers varies from less than one meter, to over 100 meters. |
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The Breton subsoil is characterised by a huge amount of fractures that form a large aquifer containing several millions square meters of water. |
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They range in length from less than a meter to several hundred meters long. |
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The midden in Namu, British Columbia is over 9 meters deep and spans over 10,000 years of continuous occupation. |
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Surface currents are generally restricted to the upper 400 meters of the ocean. |
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They are defined by oceanographers as independent features that rise to at least 1,000 meters above the seafloor. |
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Herring are found in the North Sea and the North Atlantic at depths to 200 meters. |
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Blue whiting are found in the open ocean and above the continental slope at depths between 100 and 1000 meters. |
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In general, their intestines have a typical length of about 45 meters, which is unusually long for animals of their size. |
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When humans come closer than 15 meters of a sea lion, the sea lions' vigilance increases because of the disturbance of humans. |
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Although this process injects a great deal of energy into the upper few meters, most of it dissipates relatively rapidly. |
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Fossils vary in size from one micrometer bacteria to dinosaurs and trees, many meters long and weighing many tons. |
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Alternatively, facing the mainland from the memorial, descend the steps and walk 200 meters down the lane to a country pub for respite. |
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Next, there is the instinct for 'harmony' and rhythm, meters being manifestly sections of rhythm. |
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The sounds originate in the tendons of the knees and may be audible from ten meters away. |
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The smaller of the two boats, perhaps 19 meters long and made of pine, was hacked up and used as firewood by troops. |
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It is a circular planisphere drawn on parchment and set in a wooden frame, about 2 meters in diameter. |
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It is a circular planisphere drawn on parchment and set in a wooden frame that measures over two by two meters. |
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Although the lighthouse itself is only 9 meters high, it is situated 76 meters above sea level. |
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Since 2000, Recife has had the longest runway in the Northeast, at 3,305 meters. |
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With the exception of some of its small hills, Malacca is generally a lowland area with average elevation below 50 meters above sea level. |
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Through Buddhism's and Hindu's influence, a variety of Chanda prosodic meters were received via Ceylon. |
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It is expected that in 2012 there will be 1,8 million square meters of installed solar thermal panels. |
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Winter cloudiness prompts locals to seek for sunshine in Andean valleys located at elevations generally above 500 meters above sea level. |
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Effective range also was only 80 to 100 meters, and at that distance, a bullet could easily bounce off armour. |
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The first two way transatlantic shortwave radio contacts were completed by radio amateurs in November 1923, on 110 meters. |
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Indurated Pliocene mud and gravel, which are only a few meters thick, overlie the Late Neogene sediments. |
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The state is crossed by several mountain ranges which have mountains between 2,300 and 3,000 meters high. |
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Mountain ranges average 2,305 meters and flat areas lie at around 1,725 meters above mean sea level. |
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The altitude of this area varies from 1,800 to peaks over 2,900 meters such as the La Giganta and La Sierra del Cubo mountains. |
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The highest point is Pinal de Zamorano at 3,300 meters, followed by El Picacho de Pueblo Nuevo, El Zorillo and El Cuervo all above 2,700 meters. |
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One unique aspect of its construction is a series of columns which sink into the earth to a depth of about two and a half meters. |
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The state has an average altitude of 2230 meters above sea level, with the capital at 2,496 masl. |
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Most of it is in the Sierra Madre Occidental with highly rugged with peaks of over 2,500 meters above sea level. |
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The state has eighty dams with a total capacity of 595,337 million cubic meters. |
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Overshot and backshot water wheels are typically used where the available height difference is more than a couple of meters. |
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The amount of concrete used in the construction of the dam is estimated at 16 million cubic meters over 17 years. |
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The belfry is the only baroque style building in Belgium that reaches a height of 87 meters. |
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During 2,000 years of levee construction, excessive sediment deposits have raised the riverbed several meters above the surrounding ground. |
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The volumes range from a few hundred cubic meters to more than 1,000 cubic kilometres. |
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The larger circle has a diameter of 46 meters, and is the largest stone circle found in Japan. |
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Aristotle was surprised that the Mediterranean was deep but hardly imagined it sank to abyssal depths of four thousand meters. |
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Much of the plateau is in water shallower than 2,000 meters, but it is surrounded on three sides by abyssal plains more than 4,500 meters deep. |
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Curtains of vapor drift back to reveal the Americans, volplaning along well inside ten meters and only a little faster than the balloon. |
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Duncan McCombie, director at the Energy Saving Trust in Wales, answers some of the most frequently asked questions on water meters. |
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This technology system reads all utility meters, but for this application, specifically water meters. |
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Shiveluch, standing 3,283 meters above the sea level, is Kamchatka's northernmost active volcano. |
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The area the adventurists were exploring is rugged terrain which includes peaks of around 4,000 meters still covered with snow from winter. |
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They intend to add another 20,000 square meters to the site and build 470 hydroponic A-frames. |
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A Buy hand-held moisture meters for your yardmen and make sure they use them. |
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The Company's gas sales for 2014 were based on a low methane tariff of 1,016 zlotys per thousand cubic meters of low methane gas. |
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Zoogeography and ecology of fishes inhabiting North Carolina's marine waters to depths of 600 meters. |
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The peaks are often found hundreds to thousands of meters below the surface, and are therefore considered to be within the deep sea. |
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This salinity minimum, unique to the AAIW, can be recognized throughout the Southern Ocean at depths ranging from 700 to 1200 meters. |
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Observations of the Ekman layer have only been possible since the development of robust surface moorings and sensitive current meters. |
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The Benguela oxygen minimum zone starts around a depth of 100 m and is a few hundred meters thick. |
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On Canada's west coast, there are shell middens that run for more than a kilometer along the coast and are several meters deep. |
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With a water depth of between one and two thousand meters the strait is substantially shallower than the Labrador Sea to the south or Baffin Bay to the north. |
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The data is sent as powered NFC tags at 433 or 915 MHz and can be received via a USB or LAN wireless adapter up to 100 meters away depending on the environment. |
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These waterways give rise to 51 natural waterfalls of 10 meters or more. |
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The depth rises from 200 meters in winter to about 10 meters in summer. |
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The camera worked particularly well in the men's 100 meters, when Carl Lewis met Ben Johnson, so Rosenberg asked the cameraman, Matthew Allwork, to go one better. |
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They set off again, the tall, elegant human and the violet-skinned exotic, too abstracted to farsee the person waiting for them in the shadows a few dozen meters ahead. |
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While Egyptian law requires all cabs to carry meters, these generally do not work and fares must be negotiated with the driver on either departure or arrival. |
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From April 25-27, I recced the approach to Baima Shan, an unclimbed peak of around 5500 meters on the west side of the road between Zhongdian and Dechin. |
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Using the Syncrowave 250 DX's digital meters, Troutman limits his maximum welding amperage to 170 amps for the thinner frame tubes and 200 amps for the thicker head tube. |
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Reed has a broad range of quality products from digital multimeters and clamp meters to thermo anemometers and is know for quality and reliability. |
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Its walls equipped with loopholes have a thickness of up to 4 meters. |
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To the north lie the Jan Mayen Ridge and Mohns Ridge, which lie at a depth of 2,000 metres, with some trenches reaching depths of about 2,600 meters. |
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Dermechinus horridus, an abyssal species, at thousands of meters deep. |
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Perhaps the most distinctive is the barchan dune, an isolated crescentic form with arms that stretch downwind. Barchans are not huge, often with heights of only a few meters. |
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They are generally considered to be any land above 500 meters. |
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Under the right conditions, peat can accumulate to a depth of many meters. |
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If ocean currents vary with depth, waves can interact with them to drive the process known as Langmuir circulation, large eddies that stir down to depths of tens of meters. |
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Peninsulas can be found on coastlines and in smaller bodies of water throughout the world, ranging in scale from square meters to millions of square kilometers. |
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The taxis, following city regulations, dutifully ran their meters. |
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The taxi meters track time as well as miles in a typical taxi fare. |
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The elevation of the pipe soffit is 10.4 meters above mean sea level. |
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The first rocket exploded on the southeast camp fire perimeter, and the second dropped in to the northwest, a few hundred meters from the center of the workforce complex. |
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The result is a stratified ice deposit, often several meters thick. |
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Fewer than 10 percent of records of marine life come from abyssal plains between 4,000 and 6,000 meters deep, yet that zone accounts for half the oceans' area. |
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He was winner of the gold medal in the 100 meters at the 1992 Olympics, the World Championships, the European Championships and the Commonwealth Games. |
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The place of worship had a rectangular form with sides of 8 and 7 meters. |
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It's apples and oranges. You can't convert square meters to linear inches. |
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As a result the enclave is surrounded by double fences that are 6 meters high and hundreds of migrants congregate near the fences waiting for a chance to cross them. |
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The accuracy of VU meters is sometimes questioned in two areas. |
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An environment of harsh contrasts, the castle also had some extravagant chambers, devoid of the stench and misery of the dungeons, only a couple of meters below. |
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Prospect pits and minor workings mark the Huichapa vein zone and its accompanying aphanite porphyry dike for approximately 1500 meters on surface. |
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With long, powerful strides, Francis trimmed the margin to five meters on the backstretch, and when she rounded the final curve, the chase was on. |
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Growing up to 10 meters long, these deep sea marine mammals might sound massive but they are said to be the smallest baleen whale found in UK waters. |
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The other part, that is now sold to Alecta, has a leasable area of about 37,000 square meters and is fully leased to Nordea, Skanska and BallBreaker. |
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Race distances at the 2012 Olympic Games were 200 and 1000 meters. |
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Water and Energy Minister Gibran Bassil dove 30 meters under sea water to check fresh water fountains which could be used as a vital source during dry season in Lebanon. |
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It consists of a large plaza 400 meters long lined with structures. |
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Inside a walled square, 500 meters to a side, was the ceremonial center. |
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By installing a bypass line for the water meter, superintendents can protect their meters from unnecessary damage and allow for easy meter maintenance and replacement. |
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This can be represented by a cube with an edge length of about 21 meters. |
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These guns were rather ancient and had limited capabilities, with an effective lethal range of about 50 meters, and a firing rate of about two rounds per minute. |
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So far, 8,000 water meters were installed in the blocks of apartments in Bishkek, Bishkek water company chief Kanybek Sulaimanov told journalists on Wednesday. |
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Late Neogene clay and gravel, which are only a few tens of meters thick, rest upon the eroded surface of the folded and faulted strata that comprise Wrangel Island. |
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In a few geologically active areas such as the Southern California coast, Pleistocene marine deposits may be found at elevations of several hundred meters. |
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Waves may be up to four meters tall, a source at the Krasnodar territorial emergency situations department told Itar-Tass on Tuesday with the reference to the weathermen. |
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The highest mountain in Southeast Asia is Hkakabo Razi at 5,967 meters and can be found in northern Burma sharing the same range of its parent peak, Mount Everest. |
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A blue-eyed, lantern-jawed old white man, who is two meters tall and one hundred years old, sits in the clearing on what was once the back seat of a taxicab. |
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The front runner was thirty meters ahead of her nearest competitor. |
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Single beds can be a couple of centimetres to several meters thick. |
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