Sentence examples for under two metres from inspiring English sources

The factory ended up under two metres of water and is still closed.

Trapped under two metres of rubble, the 15-year-old sat crouched and unable to move for 120 hours.

Both required greater precision to advance.In response the metre, from the Greek metron, meaning "measure", was ushered in, helped along by French revolutionaries, eager to replace the Bourbon toise (just under two metres) with an all-new, universal unit.

The flower, which hails from the Sumatran rainforest, takes 10 years to grow and can reach a height of three metres, although the Adelaide specimen is just under two metres.

The dust-covered teenager, who had been trapped in a small gap behind a bike under two metres of rubble, was eventually lifted blinking into the sunlight and placed on a stretcher, with a blue brace around his neck and a drip in his arm.

"The organising committee will perhaps argue that they will replant around 300 trees, but all of them apart from those 181 bigger trees belong to small species under two metres in height," a spokeswoman for Green Korea United told the Guardian.

I think it's just under eight hundred metres.

But in the end, we called everyone together at under five metres because we could see the water was rising rapidly.

In 1948, Typhoon Kathleen submerged most of the northwestern portion of the city under three metres of water when the Tone River breached its banks.

The site was soon forgotten, only to be rediscovered under three metres of sand and silt by divers in 1971 during the expansion of the port of Zeebrugge.

According to one expert, if ISIS takes the dam, which is located on the Tigris River, it would have the means to put Mosul under thirty metres of water, and Baghdad under five.