Sentence examples for or metres from inspiring English sources

Races are run on tracks similar to those for other kinds of auto racing but only about 1,000 yards or metres in length.

Owing to high energy consumption and abrasiveness to pipe and materials, pneumatic pipelines are usually adopted for distances not more than a few hundred feet or metres.

In dense fog, with visibility down to 100 yards or metres, a light of 10,000,000,000 candelas could scarcely be seen at half a nautical mile.

Even with the fifteen-metre rule in place, though, mastering both the undulation and the powerful push-off gives a swimmer a deadly advantage, especially in American collegiate competition, which is conducted in what are called short-course pools — twenty-five yards or metres long, half the length of the long-course pools used in the Olympics.

Mathematically, if F equals force (in newtons) and S equals distance (in feet or metres), work is then equal to the applied force F multiplied by the distance this force moves S, or WORK = F × S. When a force causes a body to rotate about a fixed axis, or pivot, the work done is obtained by multiplying the torque (T) by the angle of rotation.

Landmarks are pointed out, of course, but the most powerful part of this signage is that it doesn't express distances in miles or metres – it measures in minutes.

Such drummers as Sunny Murray and Andrew Cyrille accompanied these improvisations with pure accent and without direct reference to tempo or metre.

Tala might generally be equated with rhythm or metre, although the tala procedure has no precise counterpart in Western music.

Also, without the discipline imposed by the need to fit words to music or metre, the language can run away with itself.

It was done in the standing, or offhand, position at targets from 90 or 180 metres (98.4 or 196.8 yards) outdoors, and at 23 metres (25.1 yards) indoors.

In competition, dives are performed from a firm platform 5 or 10 metres (16.4 or 32.8 feet) above the water or from an elastic springboard 1 or 3 metres high.