Sentences with phrase «about a metre in»

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

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

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The company prints about a million business cards a day.It is a similar story throughout the broad range of others products, including brochures, catalogues and corporate reports.Such growth has not been without its problems.Expansion has meant six complete moves in 10 years and after being at Balcatta just a year, there is a need to move again — to more than double the size of just the print operations to more than 2,000 square metres.

In Sölvesborg, Sweden, about 400 km south of Stockholm, Lumenpulse incorporated its LED technology into the 750 - metre Sölvesborg Bridge, the longest bicycle and pedestrian bridge in EuropIn Sölvesborg, Sweden, about 400 km south of Stockholm, Lumenpulse incorporated its LED technology into the 750 - metre Sölvesborg Bridge, the longest bicycle and pedestrian bridge in Europin Europe.

Detroit Bikes, a bicycle manufacturing company that opened last fall, is located in a pair of low - slung buildings, about 5,000 square metres of space that's part of a small industrial park near the suburb of Dearborn.

About 2,500 metres of underground diamond drilling begins this week aimed at further extending the mine plan and potentially allowing an increase in the mining rate.

I had raised an issue to everyone in the car beforehand, saying, «I don't feel safe about this road we're going down,» and sure enough, within 200 or 300 metres, we were under fire.

In July 2017, Lorne Somerville, a commercial leasing specialist from Barfoot and Thompson, noted that in 2016, «Kiwi coworking offices totalled about 13,900 square metres» and projected that figure to triple by the end of 201In July 2017, Lorne Somerville, a commercial leasing specialist from Barfoot and Thompson, noted that in 2016, «Kiwi coworking offices totalled about 13,900 square metres» and projected that figure to triple by the end of 201in 2016, «Kiwi coworking offices totalled about 13,900 square metres» and projected that figure to triple by the end of 2017.

The holes targeted the West Pit area, where the company anticipates a VTEM anomaly to range from 50 to 300 metres» depth and about 400 metres in diameter.

Since then a magnetotelluric survey covered some 36 square kilometres, adding geophysical detail to a 2016 gravity survey and showing a conductive zone that starts about 500 metres in depth.

The Supertree Grove resembles a preternatural scene from the movie, Avatar, and consists of 12 mechanical trees measuring up to 160 feet (about 49 metres) in height.

The 25,000 - square - foot (about 2,300 - square - metre) Everglades aviary houses one of the largest collection of wading birds in the U.S..

My grandmother even proclaimed this news proudly to me afterwards, claiming she saw this happening in the church... although she was sitting in her usual 2nd last row from the stage, probably about 30 — 40 metres away from where the miracles were supposedly happening.

Kaufland's stores are typically 20,000 square metres, five times the size of the average Coles or Woolworths supermarket, and carry about 60,000 branded and private label products, more than double the range in Coles and Woolworths, mainly fresh food and packaged groceries but also clothing and footwear, electronics, homewares, sporting goods, stationery, garden products and hardware.

In an interview with The Australian Financial Review at the bank's Sydney headquarters Horne unravels a great big map — about 1.5 metres across.

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.

On the summit of the eastern hill, Koudiat Zarour, and about 300 metres beyond the ramparts, may be seen the remains of a large church, the most interesting monument in the place, the basilica in which was interred St. Salsa.

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 Women's distance team has a decidedly trans - Atlantic flavour about it with American Katherine Niehaus entered for the 5000 metres, and Canadian Sarah McCuaig in the 1500 metres.

I think Brown is a twat and his team too!The goalkeeper started time - wasting almost immediately the match started, he should have been booked way early in the match.The Ref obviously did n`t help matters with his handling of the game, check out his handball call on V.Persie, for landsakes he (Ref) was only about 5 metres in front of V.Persie!

Mr. Akalifa was sitting behind a fellow party supporter on a motorcycle, moving about town among other party members in a jubilant campaign mood, when the pickup reportedly ran into them from behind after bursting a tyre some metres away from the rally grounds.

Last weekend, inside a previously unremarkable circle of grass about 10 metres in diameter, a bold new precedent for drugs policy was set in the UK.

In another situation, General Lance Corporal (G / LCpl) Danso Animon of the Cape Coast Operations Unit was also killed Friday dawn when he was run over and dragged under a cargo truck for about 40 metres at a snap checkpoint at Gomoa Abotsia in the Central RegioIn another situation, General Lance Corporal (G / LCpl) Danso Animon of the Cape Coast Operations Unit was also killed Friday dawn when he was run over and dragged under a cargo truck for about 40 metres at a snap checkpoint at Gomoa Abotsia in the Central Regioin the Central Region.

At present, the density of ordinary baryons and radiation in the universe is estimated to be equivalent to about one hydrogen atom per cubic metre of space.

In just 10 minutes, they were able to virtually reconstruct a section of the mine with a volume of roughly 30,000 cubic metres — about a third the size of London's Royal Albert Hall.

Professor Brilliantov from the University of Leicester's Department of Mathematics explained: «Saturn's rings are relatively well studied and it is known that they consist of ice particles ranging in size from centimetres to about ten metres.

In tests, the Jump Glider managed to fly about 5 metres per hop.

«So we ran our equipment over a 1,600 metre square area and sure enough we found a quite obvious circular ditch — about 15 metres across — with a single entrance pointing south east and a bunch of pits in the middle.

Given it weighs up to half a tonne and measures more than 2.5 metres in length without taking into account its long tentacles, we know surprisingly little about the colossal squid.

To find out more about how they manage to survive, Brandon Briggs at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and Frederick Colwell at Oregon State University in Corvallis have sequenced and compared genomes belonging to one particular class of deep life — Firmicutes bacteria — sampled 21, 40 and 554 metres below the floor of the Andaman Sea, west of Thailand.

New and very precise observations using the HARPS spectrograph at the ESO 3.6 - metre telescope at La Silla, Chile, have now not only detected the motion of the spots due to the rotation of Ceres about its axis, but also found unexpected additional variations suggesting that the material of the spots is volatile and evaporates in sunlight.

In June 2000, Project Deep Spill released hydrocarbons into the sea off the coast of Norway at a depth of about 800 metres.

The first hobbit fossil, known as LB1, was found in 2003 beneath about 6 metres of dirt and rock.

Now we know that the diverted river dumped about 30 per cent of the sediment it was carrying — 5 million cubic metres of sand — and it became new land, says Jeffrey Nittrouer at the University of Illinois in Urbana - Champaign (Nature Geoscience, DOI: 10.1038 / ngeo1525).

It comprises an estimated 500 million neurons — about five times as many as in the brain of a rat — and is around 9 metres long, stretching from your oesophagus to your anus.

We calculated that if the simulators used a grid size of about 10 - 27 metres, then the cut off energy would vary in different directions.

The observed activity of 288P also reveals information about its past, notes Agarwal: «Surface ice can not survive in the asteroid belt for the age of the Solar System but can be protected for billions of years by a refractory dust mantle, only a few metres thick.»

«Oumuamua seems to be a dark red highly - elongated metallic or rocky object, about 400 metres long, and is unlike anything normally found in the Solar System.

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.

The acceleration caused by the jets is so small — about a millionth of a metre per second squared — that the star would have to move in the same direction for a million years to create obliquity.

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

Although only about 3 millimetres thick, it is the largest organ in the human body and covers an area of 2 square metres.

A standard kiln holds about six cubic metres of stacked wood, and produces about half a tonne of charcoal in a 48 - hour burn cycle.

He first demonstrated radio transmission publicly at the British Association in Oxford on 14 August 1894, when he sent some Morse code from an induction coil and spark gap transmitter in the Clarendon Laboratory to a receiver in the Oxford Museum, about 60 metres away.

One of them broke apart at an altitude of about 18 kilometres, the other sailed on to eventually land in Lake Chebarkul, leaving a 7 - metre - wide hole in the ice.

This confirmation may come about one year from now, when Jewitt will finish a separate search for faint objects using the 10 - metre Keck Telescope on Mauna Kea in Hawaii.

A narrow drill, RAID will excavate to 600 metres in about 7 days — compared with 5 years for a 3.4 - kilometre core such as EPICA's.

These snakes slither up trees before launching themselves from branches high in the canopy, undulating their bodies from side to side as they glide elegantly — at speeds of about 10 metres per second — to their destination.

And there it stayed for 57 years, a largely forgotten wreck lying in about 35 metres of water.

In all four, the trenches are full to the brim with contaminated water, and threaten to overflow, potentially emptying into the sea about 50 metres away.