noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
100 feet/30 metres etc high
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waves up to 40 metres high
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a ten-foot high statue
3 inches/1 metre etc in diameter
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Draw a circle six centimetres in diameter.
5 metres/3 feet etc in breadth
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The boat measured 15 feet in length and 4 feet in breadth.
a 3000 metres/10 km etc race
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He finished first in the 100 metres race.
a height of 2,500 feet/10,000 metres etc
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The aircraft was flying at a height of 10,000 metres.
a height of six feet/ten metres etc
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Sunflowers can grow to a height of 15 feet.
a metre/foot etc in depth (= deep )
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a channel of two feet in depth
an extra ten minutes/three metres etc
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I asked for an extra two weeks to finish the work.
cubic centimetre/metre/inch etc
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75,000 million cubic metres of gas
five metres/two miles etc wide
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The river is more than fifty yards wide.
grow to/reach a length of 2 metres/8 feet etc
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A blue whale can reach a length of 100 feet.
have a length of 1 metre/2 feet etc
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These leaves have a length of about 7 cm.
six feet/ten metres etc in height
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None of these sculptures was less than three metres in height.
ten feet/five metres etc across
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The river is 2 kilometres across.
the 100/200 etc metres champion (= one in a running race )
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She's the world 3,000 metres champion.
three feet/two metres etc in width
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It’s about six metres in width.
two metres/three miles etc long
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The bridge is 140 feet long.
walk a mile/200 metres/a short distance etc
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We must have walked ten miles today.
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I walked all the way to San Rafael.
win by 10 points/ten metres etc
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We won by 23 points.
within a 10-mile/200-metre etc radius
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There are more than a dozen golf courses within a 15-mile radius of St Andrews.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
cubic
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You then need to multiply this by your company's charge for each cubic metre of water.
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Charges differ throughout the country but 40p per cubic metre is a rough guide.
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Levels of sulphur dioxide in the air reached 2,400 microgrammes per cubic metre over the weekend.
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If all goes to plan, the sail will collapse into a box less than a cubic metre in volume.
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The new limit is one billionth of a gram per cubic metre .
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The consultants reckon that pumping water from depths of 20 metres would cost less than 50 cents per cubic metre with solar power.
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We each drink about one cubic metre of water a year and use between 50 and 100 for domestic purposes.
square
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Researchers have found the soil to be infested with around 500 grubs per square metre instead of the usual five or so.
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Two years later their numbers were still no higher than 2,000 per square metre .
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The calendar below shows the 13 dazzling international exhibitions being held in the 12,000 square metre exhibition hall.
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Each aluminium can you collect will buy one square metre of tropical forest which will be preserved for future generations.
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They are present on every branch in a rainforest and every square metre of uncultivated soil.
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The project's treatments cost as little as 54p per square metre .
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Order the terrazzo by the square metre .
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Do we mean something like one sand grain every square metre of sea-floor per minute, per day, per year?
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
3 metres/5 miles etc short of sth
five feet/two metres etc square
square metre/mile etc
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A square mile of orchards shows no sign of anyone picking anything.
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Half a dozen females share a nest, a simple hollow within the square mile or so of a male's territory.
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Having lived in Deptford all his life, Albie knew every jabber, snorter, speed-freak and pot-head in sixteen square miles.
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It would cover four square miles and be the second biggest in the country.
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Researchers have found the soil to be infested with around 500 grubs per square metre instead of the usual five or so.
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The basins are scattered over 20,000 square miles and fed by underground rivers which extend through Nevada, Utah and California.
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The Buxton Springs are surrounded by 550 square miles of spectacular natural landscape.
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This system was probably capable of supporting about 400 people per square mile.
the 100-metres/400-metres hurdles
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Last night we camped a metre short of the border, a beautiful spot between the upper and lower Sorjus lakes.
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Prices start at about £100 per metre for standard models; fan-assisted convection designs are also available.
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Rivermen were surprised at the force of the bore on a 9.3 metre tide, nearly a metre below maximum at Sharpness.
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The doctors have said that she will not grow to more than a metre in height.
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The largest column, which was at Phaistos, had a diameter approaching 1 metre .
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The mature shell size also varies from small species a few centimetres across to giants of a metre or more in diameter.
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The pit was about a metre and a half deep.