Sentences with phrase «about a meter»

A second pit containing a single body was found this year about a meter from the first pit.

The most - complete skeleton belonged to a woman who stood about a meter tall.

Surface temps are a combination of the air temperature about a meter above the ground and the surface temperature of the ocean.

My favorite part about the meter is how inspiring it is to a breastfeeding mama!

If you feel the ticket was issued in error, information about the meter history will be available to a hearing officer during the hearing.

I think you are on the right track though about the meter if you could not find a leak.

She was about a meter from our driveway when we got to her.

Rising sea level, and presumably, related wave erosion have deflated the site, and all that remains is a scatter of artifacts under about a meter of water.

And eventually something's going to give, and so the coastline that's been jacked up over 500 - ish years or so is going to drop about a meter in about a minute or so,» Chris Goldfinger, a paleo - seismologist at Oregon State University, told CBS News.

«The glacier here had to have been thinning at about a meter per year for several decades, possibly centuries,» Bentley said.

To prove he was acting against his will, my son stopped about every meter to scream a primal grunt of frustration.

So it looks as if the lake's true deposits are only about a meter thick, a feature that is compatible with a hypothesis that posits a young age for the lake.

Based on a comparison of the size of the molar to the teeth of other extinct platypuses, the team reports today in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology that O. tharalkooschild was probably about a meter long — bigger than any other platypus and twice the size of the species alive today.

According to Lagomasino, preliminary data shows the height of the canopy decreased by about a meter and a half as taller trees were toppled.

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All said, there is still a puzzling question that may be answered by learning more about the meter reader's exact version, and not the workers» compensation insurer's version, especially as it pertains to information about whether he provoked Sandy.

By the end of the 20th century, glaciers were retreating throughout the world, and those in Alaska were typically becoming about a meter thinner every 4 or 5 years.

So I suppose, considering what you and someone above said about the meter not catching stuff, my question would be (well two questions) why they follow up with someone who DOES have gestational diabetes by assigning a meter, and then whether, if the person was able to avoid huge insulin peaks by eating well and such that the meter showed them not going over their established (by the doctor that is) threshold, would that mean that they were effectively mitigating the risks?

At the Long's Canyon and Madrid Canyon roadcuts, «there is a fault that slipped about a meter at the time of the impact,» Sleep said.

Hlubik was inspired to investigate her site, part of a larger archaeological area known as Koobi Fora, because of reddened, bowl - shaped patches, about a meter below the surface, that were first identified in the 1970s and 1980s in a nearby part of Koobi Fora.

On their own, bedbugs crawl about a meter a minute, he says.

In contrast, Lamellibrachia lives at cold seeps — fissures on the 2 - degree - Celsius sea floor that emit methane and other gases for centuries or longer — and inches up about a meter every 100 years, topping out at 3 to 4 meters.

To that end the researchers utilized a pair of ytterbium ions as quantum bits, or qubits, each confined to a private vacuum chamber about a meter apart in an experimental system at the Joint Quantum Institute of the University of Maryland and the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

An air waveguide conducted light from the spark to a detector about a meter away.

The house wave a short paddle from the beach is set before one of the most stunning backdrops in the region, this super-fun right lies about meters from the resort.

Ray made his first relief in 2007, and this is his fifth sculpture in this format: little over two meters long, meter and a half wide and about a meter deep.

FoE draws on the support of James Hansen, who contradicts the IPCC «consensus» with alarmist statements about meters of sea - level rise, yet escapes being called a «denier» on the basis that he differs from the mainstream in a more apocalyptic direction.

Bridgeville is very strict about the meters, so be sure you bring a few quarters.

Privacy Concerns At the moment, most of the new services can provide imagery down to about a meter of resolution.

Related to pigeons and doves, it stood about a meter (3.3 feet) tall, weighing about 20 kilograms (44 lb), living on fruit, and nesting on the ground.

To prove he was acting against his will, my son stopped about every meter to scream a primal grunt of frustration.

The large droplets that infected the ferrets in the study can travel only about a meter, limiting the virus» spread.

This tubby fish, about a meter long, swims by flapping its pectoral fins.

The lowest place on earth, exploited by industry and deprived of its water sources, the Sea is disappearing at an astounding pace, its waterline retreating by about a meter every year.

The IPCC estimates a likely upper bound for sea level rise, for instance, at about a meter, but under much stronger warming scenarios.

Gorilla cover glass, which is found in about 5 billion of the world's smartphones, tablets and other devices, can survive a fall from selfie - taking height — about a meter and a half — without cracking in most cases.

Because of the advanced GPS technology contained within them, they are accurate to about a meter, which means it is very easy to find them.

But beyond a certain size — about a meter — growth stops as collisions rupture the dust ball rather than add to it.

In addition, because of radio and television transmission, the earth is extremely bright at wavelengths of about a meter.

The concept was straightforward — design and build a robot that could pick up inflatable game pieces (triangles, circles and squares each about a meter in the diameter) and hang them on pegs protruding from walls on either side of the 8.2 - by 16.4 - meter playing floor.

This shark species lives off of the east coast of North America and grows to about a meter (3.3 feet) long.

The updated iteration of last year's Kobo Aura HD and the same beautifully unnecessary, 6.8 - inch screen that comes with it, but this time, it's waterproof up to about a meter of water and for thirty minutes.

A depth of about a meter (about four feet) makes sea swimming kid - friendly within the area marked by buoys.

The ridge sticks up about a meter, and below it there is jumble of ice called a keel that may extend to 5 or 6 - m depth.

On a continued «business as usual» trajectory, the world will burn through about 5 times that safety limit by 2100, putting the world on a path for warming of more than 4.5 degrees Celsius and about a meter of additional sea level rise.

About a meter every year, the water table is going down, and down and down.

This means that you can dunk the phone into water for up to 30 minutes at a depth of about a meter.