Sentence examples for on metre from inspiring English sources

The Danish philologist Otto Jespersen's early essay "Notes on Metre" (1900) made a number of significant discoveries.

He abandoned his stiffly formal verse for the stripped-down, meditative lyricism of The Branch Will Not Break (1963) and Shall We Gather at the River (1968), which were more dependent on the emotional tenor of image than on metre, poetic diction, or rhyme.

A large-scale RAP figuring facility, Helios 1200, has been developed in the Precision Engineering Centre at Cranfield University to optimize and apply the RAP technology on metre-sized optical surfaces.

4. The Bernina Express The Swiss are unbeatable at the trains-up-mountains business, and this daily service that tootles over the Alps from Chur, the country's oldest town, to Tirano in Italy may look like a toy, but runs on metre-gauge track that has been designated a Unesco World Heritage site for its engineering.

There's a small child peering out the bottom floor flat, and I think about the slaves being ball-gagged and pissed on metres above.

Butomus umbellatus - a flowering rush with distinctive umbels of pink flowers on metre-long stems.

The ball was recycled, but a knock-on 10 metres out prevented an opportunity emerging.

Few villages on this 2,500 metre (8,000 feet) -high plateau in central Afghanistan have turned to poppy production.

Angeleno adds them to his pile before setting it on fire just metres from his wife's bed.

Kerouac wrote it in just three weeks, furiously tapping away on his typewriter on 3.6-metre (12ft) reels of paper.

Find the acceleration due to gravity on the planet the object is on in metres per second per second.