Sentence examples for metres rather than from inspiring English sources
Jams and bread are homemade, and food integrity can be measured in egg metres rather than food miles.
A new Ordnance Survey calculation has recorded the height of Ben Nevis at 1,345 metres, rather than the previous 1,344 metres.
This article has been amended to correct air pollution measurements of PM10 and PM2.5 particles mistakenly given in terms of square metres rather than cubic metres.
In the past year Walmart has opened less new floor space in foreign markets than originally planned: 14m square feet (1.3m square metres) rather than 20m-22m.His 20m-22m.Hisnew a new set of headaches.
If the fluid is air, it is adequately satisfied provided that the largest excursion in z is on the order of metres rather than kilometres and provided that the fluid velocity is everywhere less than about 100 metres per second.
Ministers announced last year that they intended to relax rules for a three-year period during which the depth of allowed single-storey extensions would be 8 metres (26ft 3in) rather than 4 metres for detached houses, and 6 metres rather than 3 metres for all other houses.
It would be more accurate, providing positional fixes to within one metre rather than three or so.
The precise measurement has moved only by a few centimetres, but that means it has been rounded up to the nearest metre, rather than down.
In some modern literatures, such as German, in which the classical elegiac metre has been adapted to the language, the term elegy refers to this metre, rather than to the poem's content.
This month China's Ministry of Environmental Protection announced that 74 cities were to begin monitoring and reporting the levels of multiple pollutants, including PM 2.5, sulphur dioxide, carbon monoxide and ozone.Correction: The original version of this post wrongly suggested that the chart showed the number of particles per cubic metre, rather than their total mass.
Consequently, accurate measurements of the speed of light yield an accurate realization of the metre rather than an accurate value of c. Outer space is a convenient setting for measuring the speed of light because of its large scale and nearly perfect vacuum.
