Sentences with phrase «at about a metre»

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

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

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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.

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.

Daniel Yao, a research director with JLL, estimated that, factoring out the price controls, new homes at Qiantan — including the residential complexes developed by Cofco and US builder Tishman Speyer — will sport a price tag of about 120,000 yuan per square metre if market forces are given a free rein.

China Jinmao was allowed to sell units at the Jinmao Palace for about 93,800 yuan per square metre, almost the same as an earlier batch a year ago.

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.

«We got out, we crossed about ten to 12 metres and suddenly we were being fired at directly.

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 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.

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.

MCEs are intermediate depth reefs starting at about 40 metres depth and continuing to around 150 metres.

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).

After analysing the moon's wrinkled surface with data from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, Klimczak thinks that the moon shrank by at least 2 kilometres — previous estimates pegged the contraction at only about 200 metres.

The base of the mountain is 10 kilometres away, and the rover can drive at about 100 metres a day at full speed.

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.

Near shore, where the bottom is too rocky for Gudgeon, Foley and his team of divers made a circuit of the bays at about 40 metres depth.

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.

Blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) Length: 30 metres Weight: 180 tonnes Blue whale calves are born after a 12 - month pregnancy and weigh about 2.7 tonnes at birth.

When we talk of extracting wind energy, it's mainly from wind at an altitude of about 100 metres.

«We can get 3 to 5 milligrams of silk at one session, which means a strand about 320 metres long,» Fossey says.

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.

All this allowed the team to conclude that the object, an asteroid 17 to 20 metres across and with a mass of 10,000 tonnes, exploded at an altitude of about 30 kilometres.

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.

The torpedo will travel under the ice at a depth of 15 metres for a distance of about 10 kilometres.

I was fascinated to learn about the highland people who live in the forests at altitudes between 200 and 800 metres, where there is great medicinal flora diversity.

After arriving at the crater rim in early August, Opportunity investigated a rock about 1 metre across informally named Tisdale 2.

At 30 metres long and weighing up to 190 tonnes, blue whales may be about as big as it is possible for this type of animal to get.

In the laboratory, the robot can follow a cordon on a trellis and even move out of the way when it encounters a trellis post at up to 12 centimetres per second, or about 7 metres per minute.

The aircraft, known as an X-plane, is planned to be 29 metres long and fly at about 55,000 feet at a speed of approximately 1,500 kilometres per hour — 1.4 times the speed of sound.

Measurements show that CO2 appears to be building up in the lake at about 5 million cubic metres a year, he says, while no evidence has been found of a volcanic eruption.

With a radius of 200 metres and travelling at a blistering speed of 30 kilometres per second, at its closest it was about 33,000,000 km from Earth.

The proboscis monkey lives near rivers and is prone to splashing about in water — and can even dive for up to 20 metres at a time

Instead, beginning later this year or early next year, transmitters will be moored at a depth of about 1000 metres in the Pacific, Indian and Atlantic oceans.

Here a 40 - kilometre line of cliffs has been retreating for some 6000 years at about the current rate of 2 metres a year.

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.

On a rocky area of about one square metre, and in loose rocks nearby that were once part of that surface, Aaron Sappenfield at the University of California, Riverside, and his colleagues discovered the fossilised remains of 13 jellyfish (Geological Magazine, doi.org/b93h).

On any day, about one dust devil pops up per square kilometre of surface, at an average size of 13 metres across (arxiv.org/abs/1708.00484).

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

For starters, we are talking about working at depths of kilometres, rather than hundreds of metres, usual for water.

The Guardian article A. Simmons referred to quotes him as saying: «We are talking about a sea - level rise of at least a couple of metres this century.»

About — Maca is a root that grows in the high Andes of Peru, at altitudes of approximately 4,100 — 4,500 metres.

I focus my eyes on a spot about three metres away from me, and do not look at myself once throughout the exercise.

For its size, at just over 4.7 metres, the Allspace felt nimble to steer and easy to move about.

It has been reduced to 11.4 metres (37.4 feet), compared to the current generation at about 12.5 metres (41 feet).

Motorway mode has a range of around 120 metres, and the driver is able to see about 50 metres further at the centre of this cone of light than is the case with conventional low - beam headlamps.

The virtual colour display of size 21 x 7 centimetres appears to float on the bonnet at a distance of about two metres from the driver.

Pretty much everything about the S - Class is cutting - edge high - tech, from those all - LED headlights that lose only one lux of power on high - beam at 650 metres distance; to the radar systems and stereo camera that can read traffic at 500 metres in front and 80 metres behind.