6 sentences with 'metre'
Example sentences and phrases with the word metre and other words derived from it.
• « Antoine then opened a huge box containing a piece of furniture more than a metre high. It looked like a chest of drawers, but if you looked through a pair of binoculars on the lid, you were astonished to see moving figures inside. »
• « Undaunted, the maple, already 90 centimetres long but only 30 centimetres high, turned east towards the edge of the thicket, which was a metre and a half away. »
• « When snow falls it is soft and light - one cubic metre weighs 75 kilos - but under pressure it becomes hard and vitreous, reaching a weight of 900 kilos per cubic metre. »
• « The macabre statistics do not end there. In that area of Sweden, caesium-137 levels have reached 137,000 Becquerel (bq) per square metre. This means that in the days immediately following the Chernobyl disaster, 30 times more radioactive material has fallen there than was developed in forty years of nuclear testing. »
• « The Seabus submarine will be a twelve and a half metre long cylinder that will give tourists a direct view of the seabed. »
• « What was found is the footprint of a foot of twenty-three centimetres; this suggests that the unknown progenitor of the French must have been one metre and a half tall. »