Sentence examples similar to an metres from inspiring English sources

A nanometre is a billionth of a metre (a micrometre is a mere millionth of a metre).

He said the missile made a crater a metre deep.

We cut back the bramble, growing at least a metre a month.

The slow-motion ascent can take up to 12 hours; just over a metre a minute.

It will continue to burn at a metre a year for the foreseeable future.

Then back off a metre (a yard).

The temples may be built upon a platform raised by about a metre called a "jagati".

Diane carried a square plastic frame that measured a metre on a side.

It's big – about a metre and a half on a side – and fantastically detailed.

You need to dig a hole about half a metre wide and two and a half metres down.

Oh, yes, a metre and a half.