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Discover LudwigThe word "metres" is correct in British English
It is used to refer to a unit of length in the metric system. Example: "The swimming pool is 25 metres long."
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While no gun was found on him, a handgun in a sock was discovered on grassland about four metres (14ft) from his body.
Weighing almost six tonnes and measuring 4 metres (13ft) square, the giant slab of milk chocolate has broken the record for the world's largest chocolate bar.
The projecting glassy liner, which drives a wedge between the Southbank and the National Theatre, is echoed 40 metres up in the air, by what the architects describe as a floating pavilion – a 60-metre-long glass box that will loom over the Hayward gallery.
In Cappadocia, the thrill of hurtling along a trail on two wheels is amplified by its otherworldly landscape of rock pillars, known as "fairy chimneys", many reaching more than 40 metres high, as well as its cave houses and ancient Byzantine churches.
In January, final approvals were granted to dump three million cubic metres of dredged ocean bottom into the waters of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park to make way for a new coal terminal.
The ice around the edge of Antarctica is melting faster than previously thought, potentially unlocking metres of sea-level rise in the long-term, researchers have warned.
Little Palm Grove, a sister resort 50 metres away, is a more private affair compared with Palm Grove's family-friendly environment but both have beautifully furnished cottages, reflecting the gorgeousness outside.
The Zodiacs took them to an old wooden fishing boat, perhaps 30 metres long.
"In the second attempt, an immature female, which nested 5 metres [16ft] from the boundary of the moor, laid two eggs in Northumberland but the eggs were not viable despite the female incubating for the full term and the male provisioning her well.
Covering more than 92,000 sq metres (1m sq ft), it is packed with supercomputers operated by codebreakers and data miners who work behind concrete and limestone walls that are up to 2.5 metres (8ft) thick.
Related: Hainan gibbon 'clinging on' with 25 left in China "If they [the gaps] are tens of metres across rather than hundreds of metres, there are different ways of bridging those.
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