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‘Some metres can be in diameter.’

[⟨det (plur metre.n)⟩ in.p (k diameter.n)]

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Local Thames Historian Alastair Isdale noted this tree was 8.54 metres in diameter, and 26.83 metres in girth.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

It is 6 metres high and 3 metres in diameter.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

(photo: Michal Szlaga) The overall UFO structure is 7 metres in diameter and manufactured of aluminum for lightness. 3000 bright and individually controllable Color Kinetics LED nodes have been arrayed across the structure and are controlled via a solid state computer.
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Each unit is some 8 metres in diameter and stands some 9 to 11 metres in height, offering between two and three decks of interior living and working space.
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Its chimneys are 150 metres high and each chimney has two flues that are 7 metres in diameter.
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It is the largest circular burial site in Sweden, measuring 75 metres in diameter.
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The theatre consists of a massive hemispheric screen, twenty – three metres in diameter.
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It is approximately 160–370 metres in diameter.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Giant silvery spheres nearly 80 metres in diameter slowly emerge from the ground at Glastonbury Tor and several other widely – spaced locations around the world.
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Some medieval upper – class women wore skirts over three metres in diameter at the bottom.
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This two – tier structure is 6 metres high and 3 metres in diameter and is believed to copy the architecture of the tomb of Christ after the crucifixion.
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Individual specimens may grow up to 30 metres or more in height with trunks up to 1.2 metres in diameter, and they have smooth dark bark.
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The Tagish Lake meteoroid is estimated to have been 4 metres in diameter and 56 tonnes in weight before it entered the Earth’s atmosphere.
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The frustum tapers from a base 20.7 metres in diameter to a crown six metres in diameter.
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It is flanked by four turrets 4.8 metres in diameter each at cardinal points on the central cylinder.
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Each sphere is 18 metres in diameter.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

The overall UFO structure is 7 metres in diameter and manufactured of aluminum for lightness. 3000 bright and……
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One of the finest objects displayed is Suzuki Chokichi’s bronze incense burner (koro) dated 1875, standing at over 2.25 metres high and 1.25 metres in diameter it is also one of the largest examples made.
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The mound is about 20 metres in diameter and very worn down.
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Queried on 2013-05-24.