Example sentences of "metre [coord] so [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 At the top , perhaps three hundred metres or so above the camp , the view is phenomenal .
2 Um , said Tor , but then went on to explain that only a week or two before he had been within a hundred metres or so of a school of orca .
3 A few tree-living species can travel fifteen metres or so through the air , about a hundred times their body length , by becoming gliders .
4 A level 3 ( middle neolithic ) room was preserved a metre or so below the surface of the Central Court at Knossos .
5 There seems to be general agreement that the inner edge of the bench may be a metre or so above the level of the highest tides .
6 It extends in places up to a metre or so above the level of the reef flat due to the fact that Porolithon can survive in the splash and spray zone and does not need long periods of immersion .
7 The chute is a perfect dish hovering a metre or so above the snow and hauling me downwind at a speed that would be unthinkable on Nordic skis .
8 Some more modern houses often have bay windows which stick out about a metre or so from the wall .
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