Sentence examples for metre off from inspiring English sources

This year's victor in Rio, Jeff Henderson, won with a jump more than a half a metre off Beamon's record.

"In the hurdles if you are half a metre off the pace then you can really bugger it up," Greene said.

The nets also limit the environmental impacts of trawling – they are raised one metre off the bottom of the sea floor, which protects the delicate sea bed and the ecosystem it supports.

Here, she finished a disappointing ninth in the shot put, with an effort of only 13.68m, nearly a metre off her best this season, and while she finished third in the high jump, her 1.78m was far from impressive.

The answer is a building whose highest point, its glass balustrade, is about a metre off the ground, but which offers underneath a work of infinite jest and most excellent fancy.

Now I'm more than happy to lose half a metre off my short approach and know that my technique is working".

Down by the dock a couple of people in survival suits are playing around with a strangely sculpted little berg floating a few metres off shore.

To get into this lost world we had abseiled 45 metres off a grassy clifftop, our lives hanging on a metal post that Henry assured me was secure.

Back at Mawson I begin to paint the station in my 'Ebox', a three-metre sea container that has been staked into the ice a few hundred metres off shore.

So far, tests have been made using the laser only a few hundred metres off; but with a higher-powered laser, distances of at least a kilometre should be possible.The technology to detect biological and chemical weapons seems to be progressing to the point when it will soon be able to provide sufficient warning to military forces deployed in the field.

This is the time of the year when whales are migrating north to calve and I remember one year, when the whales were migrating back south in the spring, a whale and her calf rested in the bay only a few hundred metres off shore.