Sentences with phrase «only about a metre»

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

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.

Not exact matches

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!

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.

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.»

The warm water is only about 125 metres down, so we could see rapid warming as it resurfaces.

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

But that only works up to about 50 metres, so we knew they had to be using another of their senses for longer range navigation,» says Greif.

Cosmic strings are line - like objects with a mass per unit length of about 1017 tonnes per metre and a thickness of only 10 22 of the radius of a hydrogen atom.

The hills there rise very steeply, so workers will have to tunnel only about 2 kilometres horizontally to provide the laboratory with about 1300 metres of high - quality granite cover above.

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.

A unique feature of SHRIMP is its7 - tonne magnet with a turning radius of one metre; other machines use magnets weighing only a few kilograms, with a turning radius of about 30 centimetres.

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

Hey all I started a keto diet about 3 - 4 weeks ago and in that time I only have had a reading of 0.7 mmol on the ketone metre.

With its hokey humour, routine acting, and lack of genuine scares, the only thing this supposed «offbeat comic thriller» has going for it is about 10 metres of robotics and foam latex.

Just 140 mm narrower and about 120 lower than full - size these are not small trucks: a 6» 2» bed Crew cab is only 120 mm shorter than a Double cab 6» 6» bed Sierra, turns only a half - metre tighter and tows more in 2WD V6 trim.

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.

Only about 40 % of the water reaches the crops, while evaporation in the hot sun takes more than two metres of water a year from the reservoirs - a total of around 300m cubic metres from Elephant Butte alone.

It is ideally located in a picturesque fishing village, just about 200m from a quaint fishing port and only about some hundreds of metres from the commercial centre and nightlife of Cala RatjadaThree beautiful beaches are within easy reach of hotel - Cala Gat, Cala Agulla, Son Moll - each with fine sand, clear water and all facilitiesBellavista is one of the more established hotels in Cala Ratjada and is regularly renovated to maintain its high standards of comfort and provide its guests with a comfortable environmentAll rooms have air conditioning (cool / heat), TV - Sat, mini-fridge, Wii Internet, cosmetic mirror and hair - dryer - included in the price; dispose of bathroom and balcony, telephone, safeAfter the last reforms the hotel dispose of lifts in both buildings, ground floor reform made, the entrance and rooms in the pit suitable for disabled persons, swimming pool has an hydraulic elevator, Wii Lan able in all hotel areaIn addition to having a pool, outdoor terraces, gym with baths, jacuzzi, turkish bad and sauna, a bar (with satellite TV, air conditioning and cybercafe), Bellavista offers its guests mini-golf, billiards, darts and table tennis.

The archway stands at about three metres high made with what I can only describe as moulded concrete, far from pretty, but then pretty isn't what this place is about, it's about one man's devotion to God and the lengths that he has gone to.

Cyclops, Western Australia, for example is one of the biggest and thickest reef breaks in the world, with waves measuring up to 10 metres high, but the reef below is only about 2 meters (6.6 feet) below the surface of the water.

The titular walk is not a particularly long one as this little shopping precinct stretches only about 30 metres back from Bophut Beach Road.

Centrally located next to the general store, with Coobowie Hotel, children's playground and tennis court only about 100 metres walk away.

Conveniently located in the lively tourist centre of Los Pinos, the apartment complex is only 50 metres from the beach and about 1.5 km from the town centre.

And even though it misses out on an ocean view, its only about one hundred metres to the sea — We love it, and it's one of our top picks in Tulamben.

Haad Rin Nok Beach in Koh Phangan is only about 800 metres long but on Full Moon Party nights more than 12 powerful Read More»

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.

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.

While we only road tested the first 300 metres of this beach, it apparently runs for roughly 30 kilometres and is just about totally undeveloped.

There is also an access path direct to the Nelly Bay beach making the walk only about 50 metres from the house.

Ark Bar Beach Resort is centrally located on Chaweng Beach, Samui liveliest town on the island east coast.The three - star seafront property not only enjoys a 150 metre golden sandy beach but it is also located close to all major shopping, restaurants, nightlife and entertainments and only about a 10 - minute drive from Samui International Airport.The hotel offers a good range of room types, from comfortable Superior and Deluxe to Premier Deluxe and Premier Deluxe Seaview rooms.Every room is equipped with modern amenities including air conditioner, in - room safe, satellite TV, en - suite bathroom with hot shower and mini bar, and most have balconies with views over the beach, gardens or swimming pools.

In this case, we were only about 50 metres from the church, but you can see the difference in the sizes of the closest figures to those nearest the church.

Each lith is only about 2.5 micrometres (millionths of a metre) across but when the algae bloom en masse the effects can be seen from space.

Can you point to any experimental evidence that shows CO2 line broadening when it is only CO2 on N2 or O2 molecular collisions with kinetic energy speeds limited mostly to about 100 metres per second?

But the average solar input to the surface is only about 170 watts / metre squared.

From depths of 300 metres below the landlocked basin, drillers brought to the surface a core that contained 30 metres of thick, crystalline salt: evidence that 120,000 years ago, and again about 10,000 years ago, rainfall had been only about one fifth of modern levels.

But anyway, we know none of the back radiation penetrates more than about 10 microns (because it is actually pseudo scattered and only slows radiative cooling) so to what temperature can the Sun's radiation warm that 20 metres of the ocean?

Source: Levitus 2009 There are, however, disputes about the accuracy of Argo buoys and expendable measuring devices dropped into the sea, and the reporting of temperatures down to only 700 metres.

Thirty - metre behemoths that rise up from nowhere to throw ships about like corks, only to slip back beneath the depths moments later.

For me, as an inveterate night diver, I knew your statement about the nocturnal overturning being only one metre deep was terribly wrong because I've regularly dived through the descending columns of cool water during the nocturnal overturning... down ten metres or so...

So despite your claim that the diurnal mixed layer is only a metre thick, any oceanographer is going to laugh in your face about that one.

... I want to talk about how the leaders of the Fitzroy Valley in the Kimberley are working together to create a pathway of hope and community vitality and resilience... if our journey of social reconstruction could be measured as a one kilometre track, we have only travelled the first metre.

It went something like this: hotel check - in, locate room, locate wifi service, attempt connection to wifi, wonder why the connection is taking so long, try again, locate phone, call front desk, get told «the internet is broken for a while», decide to hot - spot the mobile phone because some emails really needed to be sent, go «la la la» about the roaming costs, locate iron, wonder why iron temperature dial just spins around and around, swear as iron spews water instead of steam, find reading glasses, curse middle - aged need for reading glasses, realise iron temperature dial is indecipherably in Chinese, decide ironing front of shirt is good enough when wearing jacket, order room service lunch, start shower, realise can't read impossible small toiletry bottle labels, damply retrieve glasses from near iron and successfully avoid shampooing hair with body lotion, change (into slightly damp shirt), retrieve glasses from shower, start teleconference, eat lunch, remember to mute phone, meet colleague in lobby at 1 pm, continue teleconference, get in taxi, endure 75 stop - start minutes to a inconveniently located client, watch unread emails climb over 150, continue to ignore roaming costs, regret tuna panini lunch choice as taxi warmth, stop - start juddering, jet - lag, guilt about unread emails and traffic fumes combine in a very unpleasant way, stumble out of over-warm taxi and almost catch hypothermia while trying to locate a very small client office in a very large anonymous business park, almost hug client with relief when they appear to escort us the last 50 metres, surprisingly have very positive client meeting (i.e. didn't throw up in the meeting), almost catch hypothermia again waiting for taxi which despite having two functioning GPS devices can't locate us on a main road, understand why as within 30 seconds we are almost rendered unconscious by the in - car exhaust fumes, discover that the taxi ride back to the CBD is even slower and more juddering at peak hour (and no, that was not a carbon monoxide induced hallucination), rescheduled the second client from 5 pm to 5.30, to 6 pm and finally 6.30 pm, killed time by drafting this guest blog (possibly carbon monoxide induced), watch unread emails climb higher, exit taxi and inhale relatively fresher air from kamikaze motor scooters, enter office and grumpily work with client until 9 pm, decline client's gracious offer of expensive dinner, noting it is already midnight my time, observe client fail to correctly set office alarm and endure high decibel «warning, warning» sounds that are clearly designed to send security rushing... soon... any second now... develop new form of nausea and headache from piercing, screeching, sounds - like - a-wailing-baby-please-please-make-it-stop-alarm, note the client is relishing the extra (free) time with us and is still talking about work, admire the client's ability to focus under extreme aural pressure, decide the client may be a little too work focussed, realise that I probably am too given I have just finished work at 9 pm... but then remember the 200 unread emails in my inbox and decide I can resolve that incongruency later (in a quieter space), become sure that there are only two possibilities — there are no security staff or they are deaf — while my colleague frantically tries to call someone who knows what to do, conclude after three calls that no - one does, and then finally someone finally does and... it stops.