Sentence examples for metres over a from inspiring English sources
The West Ridge itself then rises 9,200 feet (2,800 metres) over a distance of 3.5 miles (5.5 km), much of it over difficult rock.
The waterfall at the city's Noccalula Falls Park drops more than 90 feet (27 metres) over a ridge of Lookout Mountain into a ravine.
The park's name, meaning "great waterfall," refers to Stora Falls, the falls in the upper Lule River that plunge 130 feet (40 metres) over a rocky crest.
In the heart of the business district, the river plunges some 50 feet (15 metres) over a mass of rocks; the city's name is from an Algonquian word for "at the falls".
Because the Congo River around Inga is so vast and falls nearly 100 metres over a short distance, water can be diverted to create a massive new lake without disturbing its main flow.
Some studies suggest that the acceleration of melting ice in Greenland and Antarctica could soon destabilise their great ice sheets — causing sea levels to rise by several metres over a few decades.
Lake Minnetonka, 12 miles (19 km) long and with 110 miles (177 km) of irregular shoreline, is in the western suburban area; its outlet, Minnehaha Creek, flows eastward and then drops 53 feet (16 metres) over an escarpment at Minnehaha Falls.
Anything higher than an average of 25 micrograms per cubic metre in one day, or 10 micrograms per cubic metre over a year, is considered dangerous by the WHO.
The slope in sea level across the Gulf Stream has been measured by satellite radar altimeter to be one metre over a horizontal distance of 100 km (62 miles), which is sufficient to cause a surface geostrophic current of one metre per second at 43° N. The large-scale circulation of the Gulf Stream system is, however, only one aspect of a far more complex and richer structure of circulation.
This will rise to over a metre, pushing up magenta dark-eyed flowers among the shrub roses.
Adult shell sizes of bivalves vary from fractions of a millimetre to over a metre in length, but the majority of species do not exceed 10 cm (4 in).
