Sentence examples for metres on a from inspiring English sources

The are was defined as the measure of area equal to a square 10 metres on a side.

Each is a square, 200 feet (61 metres) on a side, and is surrounded by a wall.

The city lies at 2,600 metres on a plateau high in the Andes, surrounded by mountains.

On their fourth day, the pair managed to proceed only 100 metres on a mountain face 1,800 metres high.

All quiet on the northern front, little La Tzoumaz is tucked away at 1,500 metres on a shelf above the Rhône Valley.

The factory spans 112,000 square metres on a tract of land that would be hard to piece together under current laws.

Campbell made her third attempt at a hundred metres on June 25th, a Thursday.

Diane carried a square plastic frame that measured a metre on a side.

Basing the metre on a measurement unit then current in Paris, an early idea, was dismissed as impractical.

The energy used for cycling varies with speed, but at 6 metres per second, a person uses only 40 joules per metre on a bike, he said.

He established the principles of English metre on a demonstrably accurate structural basis; he recognized metre as a gestalt phenomenon (i.e., with emphasis on the configurational whole); he saw metrics as descriptive science rather than proscriptive regulation.