Sentence examples for metres length from inspiring English sources

Lastly, the two metres length of the used bamboo sticks could not be scaled up thirtyfold onsite.

It will be composed of at least 300 vertical structures of several hundred metres length, named detection units (DU), anchored on the seabed and kept vertical with a buoy.

The first naturalists who investigated Megalosaurus mistook it for a gigantic lizard of twenty metres length.

From the year 2000, these units were mandatory for fishing vessels greater than 24 metres overall length, from 2004 they were mandatory for vessels greater than 18 metres length and from 2005 for vessels greater than 15 metres overall length.

They also resemble worms: they chew earth, excreting it along their 140 metre length into conveyors that carry it to the surface.

Don't worry, you won't be expected to dash the 100-metre length of it in a sub-10 second time.

Archaeologists have gradually uncovered a 15-metre length of hull and structural timbers, in "exceptional" condition, according to Giulia Boetto, a specialist in ship design at Aix-Marseille Unisersinvolvedin involved in the dig.

Raised on fat concrete cones, it is a cathedral of jagged angles, looming curves, fractured planes and daring protrusions, its 154 metre length seeming to hover in the air.

But the houses (a source of income for the bridge) were quickly rebuilt, lining the 926-foot (282-metre) length of the bridge and reducing the carriageway to only 12 feet (4 metres).

There are also plans for installations off Orkney in Scotland and Cornwall in England.As waves travel along the 140-metre length of the snakelike Pelamis, its hinged joints bend both up and down, and from side to side.

On the 300 metre length of Ashburn Place in Kensington, West London, which has 131 residential addresses, 70 per cent of the homes are not classed as a main home, according to Kensington & Chelsea Council.