Sentence examples for metres off from inspiring English sources

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.

He was about 50 metres off the ground.

"A couple of years ago I watched them from here, just 100 metres off shore.

"We were climbing 50 metres off to one side," he said.

They were on an overcrowded smuggler boat that sank just metres off the shore of Ayvacık after hitting rocks.

Now it rests obliquely 200 metres off shore, a sad and dormant hulk repurposed as a giant birds' nest.

Coming down from the sublime, one encounters the void not more than thirty metres off the track.

The former Jordan, Benetton, Ferrari and Mercedes driver was skiing with family and friends when he hit a rock while skiing around eight metres off-piste, catapulting him into the air before hitting his head on another rock.