Sentences with phrase «by about a metre»

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.

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

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.

Not exact matches

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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.

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 2017.

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.

By the way, a super tanker is about 450 metres long, the equivalent of four and a half football fields.

The Greenland ice sheet occupies about 82 % of the surface of Greenland, and if melted would cause sea levels to rise by 7.2 metres.

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

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 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.»

Just how much energy nuclear fission releases is described by Einstein's famous equation E = MC2, where E is energy, M is mass and C the speed of light, about 300 million metres per second.

9 The Shark That Walks on Land: And other strange but true tales of mysterious sea creatures by Michael Bright, The Robson Press, # 12.99 / $ 16.99 This is a book about the ocean's marvels, mythical and real — among them the metre - long epaulette shark that does indeed walk on its paddle - shaped fins.

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.

The room measured about 3 by 4 metres, including latrine space behind a waist - high partition wall.

The generators will be driven by four turbines now being built into Romney weir, about 800 metres from the castle.

The next day, a 1 - metre - wide rocket designed by Space Transport Corporation of Forks, Washington, exploded after reaching a height of about 300 metres in the state's Olympia National Park.

Opportunity started by investigating a rock about 1 metre across, named Tisdale 2, and found large quantities of zinc, more than in any other rock examined by Opportunity or its now defunct sister rover, Spirit.

The significant improvement in the sharpness of the jet images was made possible by the Earth - to - Space Interferometer RadioAstron, which consists of a 10 - metre orbiting radio telescope and a collection of about two dozen of the world's largest ground - based radio telescopes.

It's about two metres by two metres and a foot deep, or so.

It has long been spoken about and, if reports are to be believed, Volkswagen will begin deliveries of its first sub-4 metre sedan in India — the Ameo — by July 2016.

The first of these small models, which will be around 4.2 metres in length, could arrive in 2021, although debate is ongoing about which of Land Rover's three model strands — leisure (as typified by the Discovery Sport), luxury (Range Rover) or utility (the next Defender)-- it will join.

Its width now measures 1.94 metres and has thus grown by about four centimetres.

While the warm water, high visibility (about 20 metres), short distances, and turtle sightings attract beginner divers to the islands, veteran divers are seduced by shipwrecks, drift dives amidst crazy currents, and not - so - infrequent shark sightings.

The room will be about half the size of an average Premier Inn room which measures 21.4 square metres and will be available in a new hotel brand dubbed the «hub by Premier Inn».

Koh Rok is actually made up of twin islands by the name Koh Rok Nai and Koh Rok Nok, with a distance of about a couple of hundred metres between them.

The hotel is built in two sections, divided by the open restaurant, set back about 50 metres from the seafront in grassy, sandy grounds speckled with casuarinas and coconut palms, ideal for kids to run around and let off some steam.

The hotel is built in two sections, divided by the open restaurant, set back about 50 metres from the seafront in grassy, sandy grounds speckled with casuarinas and coconut palms,... Read our full review of Escape Beach Hotel.

The centre of Oludeniz is about 1500 metres down the hill and the sea in the Lagoon at Oludeniz is just over 2kms away by the hotel's shuttle.

After about 500 metres you'll see signs for the Bio-rock reef regeneration project, carry on away from the resorts into the countryside that is fronted by crystal - clear water and a colourful coral reef.

The sand banks are held in place by a rock reef about 50 metres off - shore.

So, by the time we came to start the trek I wasn't worried about how well my body would cope with hiking at altitude (the summit of the Laguna 69 hike was 4600 metres above sea level); the only concern I had was that the experience would not live up to my (incredibly high) expectations.

The accommodation is run by Deon and Steff Kruger, with the name of the establishment being inspired by the spectacular private beach which is only about a 40 - metre walk from the property.

Surrounded by green woods, the Elina Hotel enjoys a quiet location in Pamporovo, about 300 metres from the bus stop.

The waterfall is about thirty - five metres high, surrounded by lush greenery, and if you are really lucky, you might even spot wild monkeys hanging out on the trees and drinking from the falls!

If you can manage to dive down all the way to the bottom, which is about 8 to 15 metres depending on the tides, you may just find yourself surrounded by several giant manta rays.

They said «Use this space» which was about six by six metres, not much space to use.

All the work exhibited in the three gallery spaces will have been made over the past year, and the pièce de résistance will be Smith's 11 - metre long painting called This Artist Is Deeply Dangerous, based on an article written by the Guardian's sports correspondent Steve Bierley about an exhibition he saw of the art of Louise Bourgeois.

It is a huge event meant to be neutral, but it is so imbued by politics and power it is, for me, something obvious to be played about with and subverted» — L. MCKENZIE Spanning over two metres in width, Olga Korbut is a seminal work from Lucy McKenzie's celebrated multi-media practice.

It would imply or suggest that sea level around year zero would be a metre or more below present — something that seems to be ruled out by the classical Roman fish tanks result, and so large that, if true, we would probably know about it.

It is currently receding by about 10 metres per year.

Over the past 20 years, permafrost at a depth of 20 metres has warmed by about 2 °C, driven by rising air temperatures1, notes Hans - Wolfgang Hubberten, a geochemist at the Alfred Wegener Institute in Potsdam, Germany.

Since the hole was spotted in mid-July by a helicopter pilot, conjecture has abounded about how the 30 - metre - wide crater was formed — a gas or missile explosion, a meteorite impact and alien involvement have all been suggested.

They are also swollen by melting glaciers, ice caps and ice sheets: Greenland's ice is on track to melt completely, which will eventually raise the sea level by about seven metres (23ft).

He explains how measurements since the early 1990s show that Greenland and Antarctica are losing ice at an accelerating rate, which, if unchecked, will result in about 1 metre of sea level rise by the end of the century, and 6 - 9 metres in the next few hundred years.

1) The most rapid phases [of sea level rise] were between 8000 and 5000 BC, and that the rise of general water level was effectively over by about 2000 BC, when it may have stood a metre or two higher than today.

A recent voluntary project, called the Surface Stations project, led by the meteorologist and blogger, Anthony Watts, has found that about 70 % of the weather stations in the U.S. Historical Climatology Network are currently sited in locations with artificial heating sources less than 10 metres from the thermometer, e.g., buildings, concrete surfaces, air conditioning units.

Note the thick ice in the CAA — what USGS experts call the «Archipelago» sea ice ecoregion (denoted by white in the map), indicating ice about 1 metre thick (2 - 3 feet)-- expected to remain at the height of summer in 2030.