Sentences with phrase «about a metre»

But this will be quite crippling for other people, especially since the cable is only about a metre long.

When showing off, she'll run up the tree by about a metre and let go falling back down to the garden.

Stand about a metre in front of a bench, step or chair holding a pair of light dumbbells in your hands.

This means that the smallest terrestrial feature it could capture on film would be about a metre across.

The rest of the worm, about a metre long, remains inside your body.

The Arizona tests were carried out in a trough - like soil bin about a metre wide in a laboratory, and used electricity from the mains.

Dietrich calculated that it was probably between ankle and hip deep, and flowed at about a metre per second.

You know, about a metre from the edge and with nothing between you and a deathly plunge into the deep blue... Read more about Banah cliffs.

«The sound is at a level that's audible by human hearing at about a metre away.»

In order to change pack formats, for example, operators roll the bagmaker forward about a metre, enabling the weigher to fill the windowed boxes instead of bags.

Either way it was all something over nothing and Shaun Wright Phillips stepped in to stop anything get out of hand, which is quite brace given that the Man City winger is about a metre shorter than either protagonist!

The robot moves about a metre an hour, but the Europa - bound version should be bigger and speedier.

In the back is a much bigger muon detector, about a metre square.

As soon as an onboard camera sees the shirt, the craft takes off and hovers about a metre off the ground.

Velociraptor is likely to have stood at about a metre tall and weighed about 13 kilograms.

3 - Teaching the younger children a little bit about metre in poetry, clapping to the poem and writing some simple iambic words and sentences.

The only design shortcoming is a problem of practicality: the standard two - pin power chord that comes with it is only about a metre long, which is way too short in our view.

As a suppmentary question I have always been unsure whether the «Ocean» in Global Mean Surface Temperature based on Land and Ocean means the air about a metre above the surface as it does for land, i.e. taken from small islands, buoys and ships, or is it the the temperature of the ocean water at the surface?

It was so bad that the spew splashed up off the part of the floor it hit and made a mess that was about a metre wide!!!!

Oded Aharonson «s group at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena estimates the lake level is dropping by about a metre every terrestrial year, suggesting part of the lake bed must be very flat.

You know, about a metre from the edge and with nothing between you and a deathly plunge into the deep blue sea.

Jump forward until you are about a metre away from the chair.

The shower cubicle is about a metre wide and deep so I wouldn't say it is too small.

The whole assembly is about a metre and a half across, and controlled by an ordinary computer.

One of the most interesting cultural refinements of the Indian Muslim community is the Mamak man, who is framed for the Tarik (pulled tea), which is thrown across the distance of about a metre, from one cup to another, with no spillages.

The two glaciers between them account for 12 % of the island's ice sheet, and if both collapsed into the sea and melted entirely, global sea levels would rise by about a metre.