Example sentences of "at about [adj] feet " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although you are here , on the summit , at 9,400 feet , well above the permanent snow line in the Pyrenees , which starts at about 8,500 feet , there is seldom any snow in the summer , because the sides of the mountain are too steep , especially on the north side , to keep it in place . |
| 2 | The pilot of a Fuji aircraft at about 500 feet agl on finals , who believed he was number four to land , saw a Cherokee type aircraft approaching him on a collision course from his 10 o'clock ; to him the aircraft appeared to be level or slightly high and under power , and his passenger saw the Cherokee 's landing light flash . |
| 3 | John Pain ( flying P3731 ) : ‘ This was a brawl with some 15 CR 42s in which the entire flight got mixed up some miles out to sea at about 18,000 feet between St. Paul 's Bay and Sliema . |
| 4 | Robert Layton will be flying at about 2,000 feet to stay below commercial flight routes , low enough to run into bad weather , or his worst nightmare , fog as he crosses the Channel . |
| 5 | ‘ Thacker , who was the sort of swimmer who needed a Mae West to stay afloat in his bath , battled his burning Hurricane back over the Maltese coast at about 6,000 feet , he then pulled his hood back , rolled her and baled out . |
| 6 | Müncheberg fired at one at about 6,000 feet over St. Paul 's Bay at 0753 , his wingman — Fw . |
| 7 | Now we were flying level at about 200 feet , with no possibility of a further climb . |
| 8 | My first attempt on these hills ended at about 1500 feet when two of us were simply blasted off , which I suppose served us right for even setting out on a morning dark and grey as a used Brillo pad . |
| 9 | Taylor led off eight Hurricanes in V7671 , climbing to 28,000 feet , when many Ju87s were seen below at about 10,000 feet just as the A.A. barrage opened up against them . |
| 10 | For example , my understanding of the appearance of the landscape where I live on the Malvern Hills is increased by the knowledge that , ‘ The water table appears as a regular springline at about 600 feet above sea level , corresponding to the limit of cultivation and of historic settlement ’ . |
| 11 | At about 800 feet AGL , re-check your position to the side of the field , recheck for obstructions , choose the ‘ turn in ’ position and prepare for landing . |
| 12 | It was time to return home so I jerked the machine into a spiral dive , just in case the remaining CR 42s or the two 109s were still in the vicinity , flattened out at about 800 feet and jinked my way back to Takali . |
| 13 | A single operation might be three miles long and half a mile wide and would crawl across the landscape at about 700 feet a year , digging up the shale or sand and beginning the processing which will turn it to oil . |
| 14 | The families and friends waiting at the airport saw the plane break from a cloud at about 700 feet and make its final descent . |
| 15 | At about 1,000 feet you should put away the maps , select a good field and check it for slopes and surface etc . |
| 16 | This happened South of the island at about 1,000 feet . |
| 17 | It was all going entirely to plan and quite uneventful until we arrived at about 150 feet above the upwind end of the runway . |
| 18 | The pilot stated that as the aircraft rose above the treeline , at about 150 feet above the ground it involuntarily banked to the right , and despite maintaining the climb speed he could not prevent the roll to the right — which continued past ninety degrees of bank . |