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Sentence Examples He said he has two ghost gums which are about 15 metres from his white cedar tree and hopes to eventually replace the cedar tree with them. Could a bird that is said to be 20 metres across be able to escape detection for so long? I yelled after them, but they didn't hear me on account of already being fifty metres away. When it was only a few metres away, I aimed my camera up towards it and peered through the viewfinder. He missed our hotel, and reversed the hundred metres round a blind bend at the same speed to drop us off. In fact, there was so much food that special tables were made for the occasion, about two metres across. In total the scheme provides 160 square metres of retail floorspace and 14 car parking spaces at the rear of the apartments. On a hot afternoon, a Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation bus approaches a bus stop in JP Nagar and wheezes to a halt a few metres away. The total quantity of materials required to complete the development will be about 1.25 million cubic metres. It is estimated that the development could provide more than 15,000 square metres of general light industry, including warehousing and offices. A high resolution camera will also sweep the surface, resolving details as small as two metres across. At his peak, he was ranked fourth in the British rankings for the 5,000 metres. It is awaiting a decision on plans to build 4000 square metres of warehousing at the same address. It can take centuries for aquifers to recharge, so the world is currently running a groundwater overdraft of 200 billion cubic metres a year. So we walked a couple of hundred metres to a small light-blue weatherboard house with a fading sign out front indicating it was a holiday unit. First he let fly from 25 metres out, his ambitious drive banging off the outside of the upright. At the Daly mine they observed work in progress on the tunnel being driven about forty metres below the old workings. The maximum range of a long bow was 400 metres but at this distance, it was far less effective. As with metres and kilometres, we need some new units, or we'd need a lot of zeroes! Why should people who drive cars over 2.7 metres in length have to pay the full whack? Show More Sentences One stone approximately a foot in width and length and half a foot in height was thrown to the opposite side of the road around 20 metres away. The blond full-back's pass to Paulse was perfectly timed and the wing made the 22 remaining metres with something to spare. His body was recovered last Saturday by police divers 200 metres upstream from Clifton Bridge, after it was spotted by a passing jet-skier. For this cost we could have just got a standard ready-made home where our neighbours would be just five metres away. Try of the afternoon came from David Whitehouse, who ran 75 metres to put his team unassailably ahead 13 minutes before time. In narrow inlets and coves, the wave can become focused or amplified, reaching tens of metres in height. Protected by an ablative thermal shield, the probe will decelerate to 400 metres per second. Take your weight in kilograms and divide it by your height in metres squared. It took me twenty minutes to wade the one hundred metres back to our hotel. Her third medal was a bronze in the keirin to go with her gold from the sprint and bronze from the 500 metres time-trial. Newfs are also heavy seasonal shedders, and due to the loose lip flews, they drool and can throw it many metres when they shake their heads. In June 1984 she achieved a put of 21.00 metres, which would remain her personal best. Withdrawn from auction at the end of April, the property offers 362 square metres of bright, well-proportioned accommodation. It is wreathed in ragged cloud and rivers pour off its edges to fray 350 metres down towards the desert floor. The media cordon is set up relatively close to the building, stepping back, keeping us back only about 50 to 75 metres. The area of unknown damage aft near the bow on the starboard side was only a few metres past the housed anchor. The office and the accommodation are a few hundred metres back from the harbour along the waterfront road. Each athlete takes 20 shots with a 4.5mm-calibre air pistol at a 10-ring target from a distance of 10 metres. But one recommendation to come out of it was that masts should not be located within a radius of 500 metres of schools and homes. One of the major advantages of a rig this size is that it can drill large diameter water wells, up to 500 mm to depths of 500 metres. Show More Sentences Railway were awarded a penalty on the five metres line which was taken quickly and Port were caught as the wing forward crashed over. Outside of farmyards, bales should neither be stored or opened within 20 metres of watercourses or lakes nor within 50 metres of wells. They bought it and built what was intended to be a holiday house just metres from the water's edge. He ordered thousands of watchtowers to be built 12 metres tall and 12 square metres at their base with 6-metre walls of granite joining them. Before referee Dean Richards blew for the break, Hinton was given another kickable penalty 35 metres out, but he missed. Experts also found a tree 10 metres away had been badly damaged by white ants. Some of these master joints continue over the surface for hundreds of metres. Orville is the world's first aeronaut in a short flight lasting just 12 seconds and covering 37 metres. His aim was perfect at five hundred metres, a testament to the hours of practice he put himself through. Hundreds of tonnes of soil were also removed to make a 300-metre road along the river bank, reducing the width of the waterway to just two metres at places. The impressive water tower, built in 1889, is 42.5 metres high. This fountain has 228 water jets, the highest reaching 15 metres. 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. Since 1965, the water table under Beijing has fallen by some 59 metres. While women also wear the mawashi, a belt some seven to eight metres long wound tightly around the lower body, it goes over a leotard and, sometimes, Lycra shorts. It will have over 10,219 square metres of retail warehousing and 743 square metres of neighbourhood retail space, along with the fast food restaurant, when it is complete. The soldier in the watchtower radioed his colleagues in the operations room as Iman, who was on her way to school, was around 100 metres from the post. He stands well under 1.80 metres but certainly packs a punch. They've had sea swells of 40 metres and snow, followed by light airs. The water main that was laid down more than 40 years ago was placed in the street for only 100 metres, which represents only part of Robert Street. Show More Sentences Veins can range in width from microscopic dimensions to many metres. Islands of ice kilometers long and up to two metres thick are common here. Obesity, which is a risk factor for chronic diseases like diabetes, is calculated using the body mass index dividing weight in kilogrammes by height in metres. Storage, warehousing and logistics will be asked to contribute 25 per square metre up to 500 sq metre of area with 15 being sought for such areas over 500 sq metres. This beguiling little loch lies in the hills to the west of Ashkirk and north of Hawick, nestling between Belmanshaws and the Dod at a height of 320 metres. So we stayed and walked a few metres in front of him asking folk to give National the party vote and explaining the prime money waster was behind us. The timbers were the uprights of wattle fences, the complex containing up to 100,000 square feet or 30,500 square metres of fencing, some of which still survives. 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. Rescuers were racing against time last night to haul up a mini-submarine stuck 190 metres underwater near the Pacific coast before the seven sailors on board run out of air. 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. The office development is part of the final phase of building on the 15-acre site, which already houses 6,315 square metres of refrigerated warehousing. Two thousand metres of walls still surround the quarter, averaging four times the height of the new fence and, in some places, over three metres thick. About three metres of his yard disappeared during the 2010 weather bomb. However we still weren't home and dry as all we actually bought was 10,000 sq. metres of complete isolation and a ruin without water or electricity! The band, armed with nothing but a couple of catchy tunes, a few metres of spandex and an imaginative wardrobe mistress, stormed up the album charts. I fell about 4 metres down the khud, and spent the night in this place. The bridge is balanced on seven pillars, the tallest one 16 metres higher than the Eiffel Tower, and is hailed as a new wonder of French engineering. The thickest lava flow sequences of the African CAMP are situated in Morocco, where there are basaltic lava piles more than 300 metres thick. The epipelagic zone is the water from the surface of the sea down to 200 metres. This depth depends on how turbid the water is, but in clear water can extend to 200 metres, coinciding with the epipelagic zone. Show More Sentences Between 200 metres and about 1000 metres, light continues to fade until there is almost none. The sea next to the Cape, and for approximately 3 miles seaward from the coast, is no more than two metres deep. The water rose as high as 2 metres above ground level in places and 150 employees of the local firm Beach Bros were trapped for nine hours. Four years later, at the 1952 Summer Olympics, 1500 metres runner Josy Barthel of Luxembourg won Puma's first Olympic gold in Helsinki, Finland. This was solved by building the New Battery higher up the cliff, at a height of 120 metres above sea level. It was about 700 metres east from an earlier fortification known as Worsley's Tower. Immediately behind Mermaid Rock lies a small Sea cave that cuts several metres into the new cliff. Grisedale Pike has a subsidiary top, 800 metres to the south west of the main summit. The coal seams are up to 100 metres thick, with multiple coal seams often giving virtually continuous brown coal thickness of up to 230 metres. Each track is between 260 and 425 metres long and it takes approximately one minute to complete four laps. In the valleys it is relatively mild, while it can be severely cold above 1,500 metres, with copious snowfalls. In 2004, water supply systems had a total capacity of 90 million cubic metres a day. In fact, the Yongle Emperor's original idea for the memorial was to erect an unprecedented stele 73 metres tall. The SPM is located off Voorbaai in an open, unsheltered roadstead in about 21 metres of water. The lighthouse is 45 metres tall, and the crystal panels which are part of its illumination system were brought from France. In August 1987, archaeologists discovered a mix of 1,789 human bones five metres below street level in Mexico City. It has a capacity of 1,000,000,000 cubic metres and irrigates large portions of the coastal region. The opening and the gorlo of the sea are rather shallow, with depths about 50 metres or less. In addition, there is an underwater ridge in the northern part of the gorlo, resulting in maximum depths of 40 metres in that part. The tidal range in the Gulf of Carpentaria is between two and three metres. Show More Sentences Distances while playing golf are always marked and discussed in yards, though official scorecards may also show metres. Its border with Zambia to the north near Kazungula is poorly defined but at most is a few hundred metres long. Botswana won the country's first Olympic medal in 2012 when runner Nijel Amos won silver in the 800 metres. In 2011, Amantle Montsho became world champion in the 400 metres and won Botswana's first athletics medal on the world level. Along the eastern border with Mozambique is the Lubombo, a mountain ridge, at an altitude of around 600 metres. The western border of Swaziland, with an average altitude of 1200 metres, lies on the edge of an escarpment. It is generally a minimum of 100 metres wide in the congested city centres, and often two or three times this width in the countryside beyond. However, total proven reserves to a depth of 300 metres are 3,000 million tons. Some carry the filling yarns across the loom at rates in excess of 2,000 metres per minute. On an international rugby union field the goal lines are up to 100 metres apart. This area extends between 10 and 22 metres behind the goal line, giving a maximum length of 144 metres for the playing area. The mountains in Finnish Lapland reach heights of up to 400 and 800 metres, where the upper reaches are above the tree line. It is a prolific and abundant plant in the moorlands of Great Britain, where it is limited to altitudes of below 600 metres. The fell's elevation seems to have decreased by two metres in recent years. The mine was situated in Grainsgill Beck on the south western flanks of the fell with the main adit at a height of 340 metres. It includes the other fells of Hopegill Head, Eel Crag, Sail, Scar Crags and Causey Pike with over 1300 metres of ascent. It is known as the wettest place of England with an annual precipitation of over 5 metres. Consequently, the length of a territory may vary from about 300 metres or 1,000 feet to over 2,500 metres or 8,200 feet. The rounded hill tops are millstone covered with shallow soil or peat above 400 metres. The highest point in the Nidderdale AONB is Great Whernside, 704 metres above sea level, on the border with the Yorkshire Dales National Park. Show More Sentences Its maximum known thickness of around 70 metres occurs in the North Pennines. This seam which was up to 3 metres thick in places provided a significant amount of the coal produced by the coal field. The lake bottom gradually filled with clay sediments which are up to 20 metres thick in some places. With a summit at 709 metres, it is the fourth highest fell in the Yorkshire Dales after Whernside, Ingleborough and Great Shunner Fell. Windy Hill in the South Pennines within the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale in Greater Manchester, England, rises to 389 metres above sea level. Grimspound is located in the valley between Hameldown Tor and Hookney Tor, at 450 metres above sea level. She brushes down her hair with a little bit of spit and a smooth of her hand and opens the bright green door, walking a few metres, squinting. He had a turn of foot that could see him outsprint many a staying horse over the 2400 metres, but that was his limit. A man, only a few metres away, standing up in plain view, swigged on a bottle of voddy. Talk about careless! Egan couldn't believe his eyes. The defender playing at the top of the zone is nine to fourteen metres out from the goal line. It's six metres long, it's bolted to the top of a stretch limousine and it's got a lovely little waggly tail. The new model WAV 50-118 allows work to be accomplished at heights of up to 5 metres by raising the operator platform to approx. The revised estimate comes from data gathered from pressure metres that were placed on a containment cap whish is now capturing some of the oil. He pole-fished at eight metres with white maggot on the point and fed pellets, with his best carp scaling just 2lb. Vessels need to stay more than 100 metres away from a whale, while in the Whitsundays Whale Protection Area the distance is 300 metres. The middle unit, the Agbada Fm, is up to 4,600 metres thick locally and consists of shallower water marine sands and lagoonal sands and shales. The completion of the first phase of an internal winze has allowed deeper access to the high-grade ore to depths below 1,000 metres. This so-called ballgown facade in The Hague features 12 square metres of wire cloth from Haver Architectural Wire Cloth. Near the crater deposits are over fifty metres, and even five kilometres away they are still ten metres thick. Some alcids remain underwater as long as two minutes, exceptionally even longer, and dive to depths of thirty metres. Show More Sentences The SI unit of velocity is metres per second, derived from the base units of time and distance. Examination of waves larger than 60 metres will depend on the accuracy with which the spatial derivatives of the surface can be obtained. He employs an equatorial with an object-glass having a focal length of five metres, and which was diaphragmed down to eight centimetres. The first flood would have lasted for several months, releasing as much as one million cubic metres of water per second. The EAIS rests on a major land mass but the bed of the WAIS is, in places, more than 2,500 metres below sea level. In August 1996 a one in 600 years storm left homes and businesses in Black Bull Road, in the Foord Valley, under two metres of water. Although many of the summits top 500 metres, most have a relatively low prominence. This was resolved by defining the nautical mile to be exactly 1,852 metres. As it passes south of Newfoundland, this rate increases to 150 million cubic metres per second. The cathedral is unusual in Britain in having a separate bell tower a few metres away from the main building, rather than integrated into it. Businessman James Miller Williams dug several wells between 1855 and 1858 before discovering a rich reserve of oil four metres below ground. The roundabout's north and south bridges have spans of 28 metres and the east and west have spans of 21 metres. The Bath Roman Temple stood on a podium more than two metres above the surrounding courtyard, approached by a flight of steps. The longest cathedrals of Spain, including Seville, which has the largest floor area of any medieval church, are about 120 metres. Andy Miller's drop goal, at 52 metres, remains the longest in Rugby World Cup history. Parts of the circuit, such as the starting grid, are 17 metres wide, complying with the latest safety guidelines. Several datums were in use around the world, all using different spheroids, because mean sea level undulates by as much as 100 metres worldwide. In England, a mountain is officially defined as land over 600 metres, so most fall in Northern England. The fault allowed the Midland Valley to descend as a major rift by up to 4000 metres and there was subsequent vertical movement. This route involves a total of 1,500 metres of ascent and requires modest scrambling ability and a head for heights. Show More Sentences Tower Ridge is the longest of the north face's four main ridges, with around 600 metres of ascent. It is 922 metres high, and located south of the head of Raudfjorden, Albert I Land, in the northwestern part of the island of Spitsbergen. The fault allowed the Midland Valley to descend as a major rift by as much as 4000 metres and there was subsequently vertical movement. The terrain is flat and low, with most areas not exceeding 2 metres above sea level. Wind farms in the UK often have to meet a maximum height limit of 125 metres. However, the cheaper wind turbines installed on the continent may be 200 metres tall. Centuries of extensive and poorly controlled peat extraction lowered an already low land surface by several metres. The bridge is 666 metres long with the central span between the towers being 324 metres. The deck stands 20 metres above the river, allowing the navigation of ships of deep draft. The underlying geology of most of Caithness is old red sandstone to an estimated depth of over 4,000 metres. Adam Watson gives the summit of Lairig Ghru as 835 metres, and the summit of Lairig an Laoigh at 740 metres, and The Sneck at 970 metres. On the ground, it lies in wait for prey, then catches it by executing a few leaps, which can span three metres. Divers are permitted to enter the wrecks, but not to retrieve artefacts located within 100 metres of any wreck. Cynghanedd and traditional metres are still used today by many Welsh language poets. Large sections of the Roman town walls are still in place, rising up to 5 metres high in places. Sometimes, where depressions deeper than 50 metres had to be crossed, inverted siphons were used to force water uphill. The cairn consisted of an earthen mound with a surrounding ditch 28 metres in circumference and over 2 metres tall. Until the 1998 construction of the Island Green retail park, Wrexham Central station was located 50 metres further along the track. Its concrete buttress dam is the tallest concrete dam in the UK, with a height of 72 metres and a length of 230 metres. The volume of the Melbourne Cricket Ground is 1,574,000 cubic metres, or about 630 Olympic swimming pools. Show More Sentences He found the nugget in water about five metres deep, about five metres from the shore. However, members of the Ediacara biota reached metres in length tens of millions of years before the Cambrian explosion. Where v is the equivalent wind speed at 10 metres above the sea surface and B is Beaufort scale number. Some cormorant species have been found, using depth gauges, to dive to depths of as much as 45 metres. By 1994 the Society had started to run steam locomotive hauled passenger services up and down 500 metres of track. In the southeast Badain Jaran Desert of China, the star dunes are up to 500 metres tall and may be the tallest dunes on Earth. Spacing between zibars ranges from 50 to 400 metres and they don't become more than 10 metres high. In a major dust storm, dunes may move tens of metres through such sheet flows. It is found from low tide mark to depths of 50 metres in British waters and 80 metres off the coast of Nova Scotia. These populations are separated by inhospitable terrain, and adults rarely travel distances greater than a few hundred metres. The towers were 88 metres in height and used the natural draught hyperboloid design. It contains numerous trenches and irregular peaks, which usually have an amplitude of less than 100 metres, but can reach up to 400 metres. The southern basin is larger and deeper, with large areas between 3,500 and 4,000 metres deep. This ridge is on average only 500 metres deep, only in a few places reaching the depth of 850 metres. It deepens toward the Norwegian coast, reaching over 700 metres at the Norwegian Trench. The Seerhein emerged in the last thousands of years, when erosion caused the lake level to be lowered by about 10 metres. A few metres to the N of the chapel are the footings of two small subrectangular buildings of indeterminate date. Similar metric units with a wide variety of names and notation based on millimetres, centimetres or metres are now less commonly used. The average flow of the river is very low, only a few cubic metres per second, but much higher flows are possible during periods of heavy runoff. They feed on polychaetes, crustaceans and bivalves and can be found at depths up to 200 metres. Show More Sentences The world's deepest platform is currently the Perdido spar in the Gulf of Mexico, floating in 2,438 metres of water. The soil consists of several metres of alluvium or silt deposited by the Seine. Glacial lake volumes vary, but may hold millions to hundreds of millions of cubic metres of water. The flood would have lasted several months, releasing as much as one million cubic metres of water per second. An avalanche interrupted work, so a secondary tunnel was then drilled for safety reasons as the waters rose to 10 metres below. Tromp's flagship, Brederode, met Blake's flagship, Triumph, immediately, sending a broadside at mere metres distance. The museum shows suggestions, but the boat could easily be little more than has been removed from the ground, or perhaps many metres longer. For Roger it was inscribed on a massive disc of solid silver, two metres in diameter. By 2012 Osprey Quay had been transformed with huge investment, offering over 11 hectares, a total of 60,000 square metres of business space. A Eurotunnel Shuttle is on average 775 metres in length and is made from constructive stainless steel. The total uplift from the end of deglaciation depends on the local ice load and could be several hundred metres near the centre of rebound. The ice sheets at the last glacial maximum were so massive that global sea level fell by about 120 metres. A shape with an area of three square metres would have the same area as three such squares. Part of this variation could be attributed to a wandering of the Pole across the Earth's surface, by a range of a few metres. In such areas the euphotic zone may be only a few tens of metres deep or less. The Ethiopian trio of Dawit Wolde Arega, Baisa Ktesa Moleta and Shiferaw Wola Gende also ran excellent races in the men's 1,500 metres. And incredibly, the American Samoan beat two other runners in the women's 100 metres at the World Athletics Championships in Berlin. The canopy zipline tour involved traversing from one platform to another 30 metres above the forest floor. The canopy zipline tour involved the canopy zipline tour involved traversing from one platform to another 30 metres above the forest floor. Measuring 35 metres long, it can lift a 500kg payload to its 5,000-ft operating altitude, extending the radar horizon to 160-km. Show More Sentences Trenching and trail building show that the quartzite and interbedded argillite unit can be over 250 metres in true width. The Kelpies stand 30 metres tall and weigh 300 tonnes each and are truly a spectacle. And Grugan took his big chance when Armagh were handed a 73rd minute free from about 30 metres out, splitting the posts. Robert started climbing from the height of 103 metres with the help of suction gears and mechanical ascenders. Fifteen core holes have been completed at the Brauna 3 pipe, totaling 1,768 metres of core, of which 1,083 metres are kimberlite. Komodos are the world's heaviest lizard, weighing at around 100kg and growing up to three metres in length. Stone rows can be few metres or several kilometres in length and made from stones that can be as tall as 2m, although 1m high stones are more common. Moose and his team later went to this area of Peak Cavern via JH and arrived at the underside of an enormous boulder choke just a few metres from the upstream end of Far Sump. The highlands in Australia are often above the elevation of 500 metres. They are locally considered to be the first hills in the Pennine Chain, and rise to a high point of 170 metres above sea level from the flat plains to the east. It is very flat, and much of it is only a few metres above sea level. The snow in the pass in winter may be as much as 10 metres deep. The much smaller historic road winding over the pass itself, which lies a few hundred metres from the Swiss border with Italy, is only passable June to September. Wave heights of tens of metres can be generated by large events. A dress length of 8 metres of the best quality costs 58 francs. The print showed each slave being allocated less than 2 metres height and. This is quite unlike Windermere where in summer, there is a sharp thermocline at a depth of 9 to 15 metres, well above the maximum depth of 60 metres or so. The summit of the fell is composed of one such lava flow, but only a few metres down slope the underlying lava flow is a portion of the Great Whinscale Dacite. It rises in the Sca Fell range of mountains at a height of 800 metres, just below Esk Hause, the mountain pass between the fells of Great End and Esk Pike. A unique opportunity for all involved, the latest edition of this famous quinquennial appointment will occupy over one million square metres of land in northwest Milan. Show More Sentences Much later descriptions record blast furnaces about three metres high. The Lowveld of Swaziland, at around 250 metres, is less populated than other areas and presents a typical African bush country of thorn trees and grasslands. The Middleveld, lying at an average 700 metres above sea level is the most densely populated region of Swaziland with a lower rainfall than the mountains. In terms of altitude, sugarcane crop is found up to 1,600 metres or 5,200 feet close to the equator in countries such as Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. A notch was cut deep into the rim of the lake, which managed to reduce the water level by 20 metres, before collapsing and killing many of the labourers. Hicham El Guerrouj won gold medals for Morocco at the 2004 Summer Olympics in the 1500 metres and 5000 metres and holds several world records in the mile run. Cows produce some 570 million cubic metres of methane per day. Large areas of landscape can be covered many metres deep in peat. In 2000, Aboriginal sprinter Cathy Freeman lit the Olympic flame at the opening ceremony of the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, and went on to win the 400 metres at the Games. Two of the older ferries were to be stretched in length by 12 metres, with upper car decks similar to St Clare's being added, replacing movable mezzanine decks. This resulted in some fragmentation of the line as the boats in some cases closed to just 50 metres as they concertinaed in and out of sight of each other. Join the coastal path 100 metres west from The Albion Hotel. A giant phasmid from India whose cage was over two metres tall spent long hours standing upon a perpendicular branch and staring into Mother's eyes. For this reason, all dimensions in the original specification were given in imperial units except the first stage diameter, which was given in metres. He has interpreted the final heading of the ship straight due north as a failed attempt to reach the shallows at Spitbank only a few hundred metres away. If all these clathrates were to be spread uniformly across the ocean floor, this would translate to a thickness between three and fourteen metres. Satellite tagging has shown that bigeye tuna often spend prolonged periods cruising deep below the surface during the daytime, sometimes making dives as deep as 500 metres. Tuna fishing tends to be optimum when water turbidity, measured by the maximum depth a secchi disc can be seen during a sunny day, is 15 to 35 metres. Some are small examples relating to meals had by a handful of individuals, others are many metres in length and width and represent centuries of shell deposition. The boosters produce an acceleration of 20 metres per second per second. Show More Sentences Species of this genus of algae may grow to a length of several metres. After a discussion of the metres employed by previous translators, Arnold argues for a poetical dialect hexameter translation of the Iliad, like the original. If the sheet were to break down, ocean levels would rise by several metres in a relatively geologically short period of time, perhaps a matter of centuries. A channel in a tidal flat can see the deposition of a few metres of sediment in one day, while on the deep ocean floor each year only a few millimetres of sediment accumulate. The operating depth of Stonefish ranges between 30 and 200 metres. The width of the boat is significant, being around 2 metres wide it is much wider than dugout canoes of the time and can easily seat two people next to each other. Vessels with a draft of more than 14 metres should use the IJgeul. As well as entertaining the workers on the rig, the concert set a new world record for the deepest underwater concert at 303 metres below sea level. The missing valve was not noticed by anyone, particularly as the metal disc replacing the safety valve was several metres above ground level and obscured by machinery. The greatest depths at which pouting can be found is 300 metres. The Persian Gulf averages about 35 metres in depth and the seabed between Abu Dhabi and Qatar is even shallower, being mostly less than 15 metres deep. Drawback can exceed hundreds of metres, and people unaware of the danger sometimes remain near the shore to satisfy their curiosity or to collect fish from the exposed seabed. In the carbonate reservoir the well found a 25 metres gross gas column above a 75 metres gross oil column in karstified and dolomitized limestone. The trench is between 50 and 95 kilometres wide and up to 700 metres deep. The gross internal aread of the two-storey front section, which incorporates entrance hall, stairs landing, toilets, fitted kitchen and offices, extends to some 287sq metres. Near Sargans a natural dam, only a few metres high, prevents it from flowing into the open Seeztal valley and then through Lake Walen and Lake Zurich into the Aare. Paul, keen to get back in the action after the keepnet ban has been lifted, fished his 11 metres of his pole with a mixture of pellet and meat hookbaits over pellet feed. The cylinder is more than 2 metres long and 52 centimetres in diameter. Shrimp of the species Pandalus borealis play an important role in the diet of fish, particularly cod and blue whiting, and mostly occur at depths between 200 and 300 metres. 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. Show More Sentences The 22-year-old won women's keirin gold at the National Cycling Centre in Manchester yesterday to add to her sprint, team sprint and 500 metres time-trial titles. The 22-year-old won women's keirin gold at the National Cycling Centre in Manchester on Sunday to add to her sprint, team sprint and 500 metres time-trial titles. On western moors the peat layer may be several metres thick. In addition to oil, gas, and fish, the states along the North Sea also take millions of cubic metres per year of sand and gravel from the ocean floor. As well as nuclear waste, the pond holds about 1,200 cubic metres of radioactive sludge of unknown characteristics and 14,000 cubic metres of contaminated water. An observer situated one metre from a vocalizing whale would perceive a volume roughly equivalent to the volume of a jackhammer operating two metres away. Most parabolic dunes do not reach heights higher than a few tens of metres except at their nose, where vegetation stops or slows the advance of accumulating sand. A group of dunes moved more than 100 metres per year between 1954 and 1959 in China's Ningxia Province, and similar speeds have been recorded in the Western Desert of Egypt. The brakes produce a deceleration of 10 metres per second per second. In the 1990s there were a variety of builders, but the industry has consolidated to two builders of large vehicular ferries between 60 and 120 metres. The hope was to lower a drill through over 4,000 metres of Pacific Ocean water off the coast of Mexico and drill some 5,000 metres through relatively thin crustal rock. The Ordovician saw the highest sea levels of the Paleozoic, and the low relief of the continents led to many shelf deposits being formed under hundreds of metres of water. Recent storms had exposed seabed that had lain under two metres of sand. The nugget was about 40 metres from the site of Royal Charter's wreck, so Thurkettle had to notify the Receiver of Wreck, who took possession of it on behalf of the Crown. Horace perfected the use of Greek lyric metres in Latin verse. The two towers of the bridge are 95 and 96 metres tall, respectively. The elevation ranges from 6 metres to 75 metres above sea level. It was less than 300 metres from the site of the modern Lord's ground. The Turbine Hall, which once housed the electricity generators of the old power station, is five storeys tall with 3,400 square metres of floorspace. The two-year-old wobbegong, or carpet sharks, measuring up to 80cm in length, are bottom-dwelling sharks and regarded as harmless but can grow to three metres. Find more words! 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