Utiliser "metre" dans une phrase

1. The cell was slightly deeper than the mattress, perhaps by as much as a metre, and the space was double the width of the mattress

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2. a living depth that defines the metre of this universe,

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3. ’ I said, fixing my eyes on the source of the sensation – a small pile of rocks set back a metre or so to the left of the Well

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4. He stops walking forwards a metre away from the short, squat Scottish gangster and slowly moves his hands behind his back, as if he is about to stand at ease

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5. After another five minutes, however, the smiles have faded and one or two people are looking at their watches with the words ‘important meeting’ almost materialising out of the ether and glowing in letters about a metre high above their heads

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6. was stuck in the ground and stood about a metre and a

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7. Seaboy managed to stare and steer his ball over the obstacles and it rolled within a metre of the hole

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8. Not a single square metre is free

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9. Despite the relative comfort of his bed, the plushness of the décor – a relining chair, a walnut work desk with a holo- interactive terminal, and exercise equipment for every muscle in his reconstituted body – there was no denying the obvious fact that he could not venture beyond this ten by fifteen metre room, no matter how determined and resourceful he knew himself to be

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10. ” he called to them when the gap was down to about half a metre

11. Walking to the far edge of the rock, he reckoned that the next boulder was only around a metre and a half away, a jumpable distance in the lower gravity, even with his heavy rucksack

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12. A couple of minutes later everyone was tied at two metre intervals along the two joined lengths of rope and Chris started to pick his way up the slope, being careful to avoid loose stones where he could

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13. There was a general gasp from the others as he sailed through the air and then landed safely, and surprisingly lightly, on the other side, almost a metre clear of the crevasse

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14. She could not help but hold her breath for the few seconds until she landed safely, almost a metre clear of the jagged edge

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15. The extra whole metre of distance and now having to jump to a slightly higher ledge instead of a conveniently lower one did nothing to boost his confidence

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16. He put his finger on a city- block entrance and it suddenly expanded within the metre frame, then pushed inside to see the bare-bones structure: support struts and buckycarbon nanotube side frame

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17. Chris reckoned Fletcher’s estimate had to be within a metre or so of the actual height

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18. The overhang itself was barely half a metre deep, sloping outward at approximately forty-five degrees, but was well beyond his somewhat limited climbing experience

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19. If it wasn’t for the artificial gravity Scott would be nauseous rather than just this strange insecure feeling that no more half a metre separated him from the cold suffocation and desiccation of space

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20. The duct was barely a metre high, designed for people to crawl along to reach some of the systems that would only ever normally be visited for repair purposes

21. “This is it, there’s another hatch about a metre above it

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22. The Elysian’s hull seemed to be mostly undamaged on top but the same could not be said of anything that protruded, or at least had protruded, more than a half a metre or so

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23. It was a gap not much more than a metre square, clearly looking quite artificial, cutting down into the rock at about 45 degrees and apparently dropping down some four to five metres into the ground

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24. Almost a metre long, with two hefty hand-grips, both seemingly larger than they needed to be

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25. The airborne vehicle materialised just as it landed a metre in front of him

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26. He knew that the reality was the 300 metre spine was stationary and the rest of this section of the space-station was rotating around it, its speed regulated by huge electric motors

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27. Don’t ask me how it could have happened – our data store is not only quantum eight dimensionally encrypted, it is kept in a metre thick dutainium vault

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28. It was a dull silvery elongated egg, hovering a metre above the ground

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29. Now he was leaping almost a metre off the ground like some demented grasshopper

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30. As the creature got to within a metre of her it started speaking in a deranged

31. Roidon silently admonished himself for still feeling a visceral anxiety at Torbin's presence, he had to remind himself that within that two metre high chromium armoured exoskeleton was still a human, albeit one that could rip any man to pieces in the time it took to say: ‘Have mercy on me’

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32. 1 metre tall mechanical man is the tendency to be conspicuous, Torbin realised, even in this sparsely populated region

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33. But there was a difference; not some identifiable difference in physical appearance, more the way in which it seemed to loom over him, despite his own two metre height

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34. He stopped less than a metre in front of her and said, ‘Hey babe,’ uncomfortably

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35. withdrew it and placed it on the ground a metre in front of him

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36. Coordinates denoting the ten metre area within which the laser must be targeted

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37. She looked at him, barely a metre away, and he stared at her, his heart racing and his breath catching in his throat

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38. A double row of five metre tall electric fences stood before a towering brick wall, watchtowers dotted at fifty metre intervals, guards sitting armed and alert, observing everything before them

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39. Jimmy stopped about a metre from Janetta

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40. She strode up to him and stood a metre away, hands on her hips in a confident posture, her eyes sporting a confrontational smirk

41. it just wasn't pleasant passing through a metre of concrete

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42. It swooped down in sudden realisation and gently parked itself a metre from him

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43. Alex had been showing the underwater crew the stunning hundred metre vertical coral wall when another diver appeared at his side with a small board, tapping him on the shoulder

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44. The creek, crystal clear, unlike the river a few hundred metres away, came out of a little hole in the bushes, across a sloping rock of which no more than a metre could be seen

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45. Finally, the water curved to the right, and after one waterfall perhaps a third of a metre high, there was a ledge about seven metres wide, and then a drop of four or five metres

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46. But all too soon, Frank found that his world was now restricted to a 3 by 2 metre cell that smelt like a urinal - that this was to be his home for the next ten years!

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47. On the count of three, they all shoved, moving the heavy wooden dingy backwards perhaps a metre

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48. Watts had climbed about a metre when he caught a movement from the corner of his eye again

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49. While it was all of a metre long, it seemed to weigh like a spider web, gossamer in his hand

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50. Behind him were the old goat horns, sprawling a metre across the wall

51. The Germans were good payers, and would pay a bonus of a hundred dollars for any wild goat shot that had horns over one metre across

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52. He wondered what it would look like at half a metre

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53. 6 metre campervan, then Ingrid and LP were ready to hit the trail

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54. He used a bit of ultra-high temperature rated silicone caulking to hold it temporarily to the hull beside him, half a metre away from his position

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55. As they waited in the traffic queue on a steep fish hook turn, LP hesitated to look down to the one thousand metre sheer drop to the mountain floor

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56. In one photo, snow was a metre deep at the front doors

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57. LP reached the mountain top, standing on a small flat area no larger than half a square metre

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58. Several minutes later Brownie returned, with a two metre high marijuana plant covered in flower heads

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59. Aidme followed, floating one metre behind

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60. Each time he used to take a bath, treading the 500 metre

61. 25 rai (3500 square metre) of land had so many different kinds of trees, from bananas, cashews, pomelo to coconuts and was teeming with butterflies which are so varied here

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62. A forty five metre high concrete giant Buddha towers over the southern end of Phuket

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63. Sitting under a tree on the kerb of a walkway I was unaware of a small, about two thirds of a metre, but highly venomous snake moving along the gutter towards my feet

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64. Nin, sitting opposite me, suddenly shouted as the snake was less than a metre away from me

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65. left up the mound and into the metre deep depression that formed

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66. Norm left the office and started making inquiries at all brothels within a 500 metre radius of where they suspected the crime had occurred

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67. The whole city is surrounded by a fifteen metre high wall and is about six metres wide

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68. Hot with embarrassment I pasted a distracted expression to my face and, feeling somewhat foolish as I was passing open spaces, arrived as if by chance about a metre from my prey, spread the towel, stripped to my pouch and sprawled

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69. The daytime express to Paris was a ten hour delight of charming villages, grand rivers, rolling fields, distant mountains, and forests with not an arid, desiccated square metre to be seen

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70. When Anthony overturned the van just before Lausanne, leaving us teetering over a fifty metre drop to Lake Geneva below, no one screamed

71. It straddles a very deep, rocky gorge, spanned by a delicate looking bridge perched on the hundred metre high vertical cliffs

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72. I wanted to remain forever in the calm ancient guest house with walls a metre thick in the heart of the city

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73. The land was relatively cheap and when the builder dug the foundations, he reached granite only a metre below the sand

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74. I’ve seen large monitor lizards that could chew your hand off if you annoyed them, and when we cleaned out the bunk rooms Zeno had to drag a five metre python from the rafters and take him into the forest

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75. Suddenly his hand smashed into the water and came out grasping a metre long eel just behind the gills

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76. On the second weekend they made the perilous, three hundred and fifty metre ascent up the escarpment to the tablelands where they spent two days and a night tramping between swamps, covered in mud to deter biting insects

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77. Wrought iron gates gave entry through a two metre high stone wall that enclosed the entire garden

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78. He padded forward on bare feet and stood a metre in front of his guests, mutely questioning

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79. A loop of thick vine hanging a metre from the ground was the route to a platform high above the forest floor

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80. He was looking forward to winning both the two hundred and one hundred metre sprints

81. men spotted couldn‘t have been more than a metre in height, based on what they told me

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82. When it stuck its head up, it stood just about a metre shorter than the tallest

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83. ‗The place is surrounded by two metre high concrete walls, the gate‘s locked and Sebastian Sanspere‘s been swimming naked all week at lunchtimes with the boss‘s approval

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84. Once the sliver had expanded to about a metre distance, sounds began to

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85. And if so, why? Escape over the back fence was ruled out as it was so high and there was a five metre drop to the neighbours below

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86. He arrived in a pair of enormous red shorts, joggers, and a purple T-shirt emblazoned with the message, Beware! Buggers at Work! At one metre ninety he was an impressive sight

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87. The entire roof had lifted about half a metre into the air before plonking back drunkenly askew on the walls

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88. The fifteen metre gap was filled by wooden formwork and reinforcing mesh, waiting for concrete to be poured

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89. The pressure release valve looked like a dumpy traffic bollard mounted on a half metre square mounting platform on the top of the dome

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90. This ladder ran up to the surface, via a small ledge and into a compartment approximately 1 metre high

91. Rob explained to them that the metre high wooden broken propeller and the pictures on the wall were of a *paramotor that he had crashed whilst on the four day course, that he had done with his friend, 'Swoop' Oliver

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92. Expertly, he raised the Buccaneer over a ridge of trees at the end of a bay, and immediately swept across the water with less than a metre to spare

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93. The treeline terminates at the 1,800 metre level

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94. A metre, perhaps two metres across, the massive boulder struck the bow with such force, the stern flipped up out of the water

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95. The slightly curved floor, about a metre below his feet was a very dark (and in this light) undetermined colour

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96. A metre wide, dark-blue beam streamed out of her outer shell, and hit the growing space fold dead centre

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97. She released forty percent of the Sun’s stored energies into a white, metre wide beam projected from her outer shell

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98. Natalie is about the same height as Eric at one metre eighty centimetres tall with close cropped black hair

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99. The Betty is a four metre long fibreglass boat with a small cabin that can sit four people comfortably

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