Example sentences of "about [adj] metre [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she was about fifty metres away from the building she heard some people behind her , but she did not stop . |
| 2 | Some of the rooms are situated in the Minoa Sun annexe which is only about 100 metres away from the main building . |
| 3 | I was just pressing the camera shutter when someone yelled ‘ Polar bear ! ’ and there , about twenty metres away on the head of the beach , was a bear standing watching us . |
| 4 | And what we 've done now , and with colleagues from Germany , is to take cores off north west Africa , say about twenty metres down into the sediment , we sample them in the lab here and took the small amounts of sediment and examined them for these long chain compounds and we were extremely excited to see that as we went down this core , back through the last few hundred thousand years , we could see our signal on sea surface temperature oscillating about roughly in the same way that er has been found with other methods of getting at the past history of the climate . |
| 5 | About twenty metres down from the top , Priestley realized that the tin they had left in the cairn in fact contained their exposed photographic plates , and that what they were carrying down with them was the tin containing the record of their ascent . |