Sentence examples for on metres from inspiring English sources

During late spring and early summer they have the potential to put on metres of new growth and many people are tempted to chop it right back, keeping their plant under control, and thus robbing themselves of any scented blooms.

Whereas solar particles could effectively be blocked by the spacecraft's water tanks or special suits that the astronauts could put on, metres of dense shielding would be needed to provide any barrier against the GCRs.

That appeared to spell the end of the match as a contest but the Scots hit back immediately, only to bungle a gilt-edged opportunity when Stuart Hogg, with no-one in front of him, was harshly ruled to have knocked the ball on metres from the Welsh line as he tried to pick up a difficult pass when a more accurate delivery would have left him with a walk-in.

The hosts, looking more cohesive and sharp immediately after the restart, mounted pressure in the Edinburgh 22, culminating in an overlap down the short side that left Fife stranded only for second-row Marco Fuser to knock on metres from the line.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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