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Horizontal drilling technologies mean that we can bore a 30 metre long tunnel while only digging up the first 3 metres.

Oh, they are building a dam and you need to move your house twenty metres up the hill?

Said this to a friend (who was standing some metres off) and he said everything sounded fine for him.

This reads like someone complaining about the metric system because you can't easily divide metres into twelfths.

However, the nearest road does appear to be 500 metres away (much closer than three miles).

If someone is within 3 metres of your front door and can't find it, you have a more serious problem.

Couldn't possibly be milliseconds, for two VMs that should only be a couple dozen metres away from each other, right?

Just to quickly address a couple of your points: - the app is localised so we deal in minutes, miles and metres hence the display of units.

Not sure how many metres, but it isn't far down at all.

They were metres from a busy bus stop, it was 5pm in a major UK city so it was well populated area and well lit.

Went 3 metres to the right and suddenly I've heard the bass player.

Various projections[1] estimates a sea level rise of up to two metres until the end of this century, so that would put La Paz at 13,994 ft.

"The best fix so far was ±1 metres at a very open location using 12 satellites; but accuracy is typically ±5 metres in poorer locations with fewer satellites." That seems very good accuracy.

And its overnight success gives us a peek around the corner into the future of both work and online behavior." Forget the company for a moment, as good as it is, and look at the movement away from all those square metres of office space.

> the relative time difference between your feet and head is very small If there's nothing significant going on between your head and your feet, there's nothing significant between your head and an "external observer" two metres above your head.

"It was the first space shuttle to perform an unmanned flight, including landing in fully automatic mode." "[...] despite a lateral wind speed of 61.2 kilometres per hour (38.0 mph), it landed only 3 metres (9.8 ft) laterally and 10 metres (33 ft) longitudinally from the target mark." That sounds pretty impressive.