Sentence examples for metre work from inspiring English sources

Applying the ancient Greek metre to contemporary vernaculars, especially to words meant to be spoken aloud rather than read privately, posed a particular challenge, forcing translators to add and invent words in order to make the metre work.

Mathematically, if F equals force (in newtons) and S equals distance (in feet or metres), work is then equal to the applied force F multiplied by the distance this force moves S, or WORK = F × S. When a force causes a body to rotate about a fixed axis, or pivot, the work done is obtained by multiplying the torque (T) by the angle of rotation.

Running on a network of rails across the 3.5- by 7.8-metre work, the robot will use the latest infrared and ultraviolet scanning technology to take millions of high-definition images of areas as small as 25 microns (25 thousandths of a millimetre).

Imperial pointed to research by theoretical physicist Professor Sir John Pendry, who this year won the Kavli prize in nanoscience for contributions to nano-optics, exploring how light behaves on a scale of one billionth of a metre, and work on manmade materials with unusual properties known as metamaterials.

It has an area dedicated to contemporary pieces, currently hosting 6,000 square metres of work from the Francois Pinault Foundation "passage of time" collection.

His experiments with prototypes have shown that posts spaced 100 metres apart work best.

The service needed to be accurate within 50 metres but work with basic, cheap handsets, which the government would give to the poorest.

Simply going to the middle will have given them 10 metres to work with rather than the 5m they failed in.

Instead, using the Bayeux tapestry a 70-metre-long work that celebrates the Norman conquest of England Mr Sacco tells the story of July 1st 1916 in a single 24-foot-long black-and-white drawing.

Earth was siphoned from underneath the foundations, decreasing the lean by 17 inches (44 cm) to 13.5 feet (4.1 metres); the work was completed in May 2001, and the structure was reopened to visitors.

Last night, during the two hundred metres, Bolt worked for the win — flying around the turn, straining down the stretch.