Sentence examples for metres in size from inspiring English sources

"It was probably a fairly hefty chunk of rock, maybe football-sized, up to a few metres in size," he said.

The use of meteoroid has expanded to describe any small chunk of matter in interplanetary space, especially one less than a few tens of metres in size.

Players can automatically create spheres, blocks and cylinders up to an 128 metres in size ("I'm aiming for larger," says Sawkins, "but the sheer volume of data becomes crazy!").

On Earth, the radio dishes of the Deep Space Network, which are used to communicate with the Voyager probes, were expanded from 64 to 70 metres in size, and their focusing was improved.

The researchers recorded a density of 94 poos per square metre, spread across patches 900 square metres in size and preserved by a sheet of volcanic ash, lead researcher Dr Lucas Fiorelli told the BBC.

Between 1150 and 1200 the Ancestral Pueblo peoples shifted their dwelling sites from the mesa tops into the alcoves in the canyon walls, where they began to build the cliff houses, with rooms averaging 6 by 8 feet (1.8 by 2.4 metres) in size, using sandstone and the construction methods developed earlier.

Quantum dots are crystals of semiconductor material just a few nanometres (billionths of a metre) in size.

However, by making silver into particles just five nanometres (billionths of a metre) in size, Xerox has produced a silver ink which melts at less than 140°C.

If you had to have a medical procedure or be prescribed a drug that used nanotechnology – the science of things around one billionth of a metre in size – would you trust that their safety had been verified?

Prince Charles has given them, and everybody else, something new to worry about.Why is the prince agitating about a broad area of study where the common thread is things that are a billionth of a metre in size?

So, Dr Raman says his group is pursuing MEMS (micro-electro-mechanical systems) technology to see if they can use chip-making equipment to etch piezoelectric fans less than a micron (millionth of a metre) in size.