Sentence examples for metres there was from inspiring English sources

At intervals of about 650 to 1,000 feet (200 to 300 metres) there was a crenellated platform rising slightly above the top of the wall and protruding from the side that faced attackers.

After a couple of hundred metres there was a handshake for the cameras and a return to the somnolent pace of the peloton, whose members were able to resume another tradition, that of riding up to the front, one after another, to pay their respects to the yellow jersey.

But in those instances where snails were recovered over short distances (up to 10 metres), there was again strong evidence of homing instinct.

"We had a titanic struggle against them last year which came down to the last kick and when Billy Twelvetrees kicked his penalty from 50 metres there was an element of deja vu.

For 500 metres there were just ditches full of bodies, legs, heads.

Heurigen punctuate the Wine Trail every few hundred metres: there are hundreds of them all over the city as well.

"If they [the gaps] are tens of metres across rather than hundreds of metres, there are different ways of bridging those.

Above 8,000 feet (2,440 metres) there is alpine vegetation, giving way at lower elevations to fir and pine and then to beech, chestnut, and oak.

In the Perugian mountains, 10 miles Spoleto and at an altitude of more than 1,000 metres, there are hikes and on/offroad cycling for all abilities.

Related: Hainan gibbon 'clinging on' with 25 left in China "If they [the gaps] are tens of metres across rather than hundreds of metres, there are different ways of bridging those.

Cypress, palm, pine, bamboo, tung, and citrus fruit trees grow below 2,000 feet (600 metres), while between 2,000 and 5,000 feet (600 and 1,500 metres) there are evergreen forests and oaks.