Sentence examples for metres to avoid from inspiring English sources
After déjeuner he left again at one o'clock, and while passing over the Ardennes was obliged to rise 800 metres to avoid a thunderstorm.
Network Rail points out that the water pipe was only installed at a depth of two metres when it should have been more than four metres to avoid the vibrations caused by high-speed trains.
They asked to climb from 32,000 feet (9,753 metres) to 38,000 feet (11,582 metres) to avoid threatening clouds but were denied permission because of heavy air traffic above them.
I found a patch of my quiet little street where a bit of tarmac could be seen through the white, got on my bike, went about 10 metres, swerved to avoid a barely visible speed hump, skidded on some ice and fell off.
Females were easily approached on the ice and pups were relocated several metres away to avoid potential injury.
On the two joint patrols they conduct with Americans, the Afghan troops would rather take a dangerous shortcut than follow the Americans clambering over eight-foot (2.4-metre) walls to avoid possible IEDs.
The airliner, operated by an Indonesian subsidiary of the Malaysian budget airline AirAsia, reportedly requested permission to increase altitude from 32,000ft (9,750 metres) to 38,000ft to avoid bad weather.
The thrusters are designed to switch off automatically a few metres above the surface to avoid throwing up a large plume of Martian dust.
Lying at an elevation of 2,648 feet (807 metres), Tlemcen is located sufficiently inland to avoid the humidity of the Mediterranean Sea coast but is near enough to receive cooling sea breezes in summer.
That accuracy would be practically unnoticeable if you were navigating a city with Google Maps, but it's vital in driverless car technology, where the difference between metres and millimetres is hugely important to avoid collisions.
By the 1840s, warehouses by the Pond were up to 36,000 square feet (3,300 square metres) in size, being built of brick to avoid the risk of fire from the new railroad line.
