Sentences with phrase «about a metre tall»

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

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About two dozen artists, gallery owners and officials wrote an open letter Monday urging the city of Paris not to install the 12 - metre - tall «Bouquet of Tulips» outside the Museum of Modern Art and adjacent Palais de Tokyo, a contemporary art centre.

Its tall, pointed design is typical of Hindu architecture, and is highlighted by a towering, approximately 154 - foot - high (about 47 - metre - high) central building inside a large complex of individual temples.

My 5 year old is always asking how big or tall things are, and me telling him a number followed by cm or metres doesn't really mean much yet, so we set about exploring measuring with this fun measuring activity.

The hobbit stood about 1 metre tall and the single skull found so far has a braincase no larger than a chimpanzee's.

They had faces like rabbits and some were 2 metres tall, but the oddest thing about extinct relatives of modern kangaroos is that they walked just like us

Given that the So'a hominins were already hobbit - sized 700,000 years ago, and that H. erectus didn't arrive on neighbouring islands until about 1.2 million years ago, the hominins would have had only a few 100,000 years to shrink perhaps 70 centimetres to just 1 metre tall, and shed about half their adult brain volume.

Job's tears, a grass that normally grows about 60 centimetres tall in the tropics, has become a giant of around 4 metres, says Michael Balick, the director of economic botany at the New York Botanical Garden.

For comparison, SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket is 55 metres tall and can lift about 22,800 kilograms into orbit.

Both hominids were about 1.2 metres tall and lightly built, with ape - sized brains and bodies resembling A. africanus, which is thought to have been a direct ancestor of humans.

The Electron rocket is relatively small, at 17 metres tall, so each launch only costs about $ 5 million.

A coral reef, with a variety of sea life, lies about 20 metres from the beach and the tall limestone rock jutting out from the turquoise waters a short distance from the beach offers a perfect backdrop for stunning photos.

The Eiffel Tower is the tallest building in Paris (standing at 324 metres, roughly about the same height as an 81 - storey building) and the most - visited paid monument in the world; with millions of visitors year round.

Or how about silently skulking through the tall grass of the Serengeti, only metres from some of Africa's most majestic predators, with the earthy scents of the African plains filling your nostrils and uncontrollable surges of adrenaline rocketing though your body.

About two dozen artists, gallery owners and officials have written an open letter urging the city of Paris not to install the 12 - metre - tall Bouquet of Tulips outside the Museum of Modern Art and adjacent Palais de Tokyo, a contemporary art centre.

Over two metres tall, these enigmatic monarchs take their vitality from the natural dynamism of the rock formations that belies everything you know about the inertia associated with several tons of rough - hewn stone.