A 259 metre section of the bridge roadway fell into the water with a portion coming to rest across the tanker just a few feet from the ship's superstructure.

On 20 May 2008 Walker was seriously injured while a pig hunting in Taranaki when he fell down a 10 metre high bank.

We should all fell sad for it being just 1 metre short

Papua New Guinea's only swimmer in Athens came within a couple of tenths of a second from qualifying for semifinals in two of his three events, but fell just short, with his best performance an 18th in the 100 metre butterfly.

Unlike other Tomb Raider games, it is sometimes necessary for Lara to acquire a strength upgrade to manage to clear certain jumps, and the fact that she had a ' grip metre ', which ran down as she climbed ; when it ran out, Lara lost her grip and fell.

In mid-July in 2004 and 2005, snow fell up to half a metre following freak snowfalls over a large area of New South Wales.

Before the existence of wetlands regulation in the Guadalquivir basin, Seville suffered regular heavy flooding ; perhaps worst of all were the floods that occurred in November 1961 when the river Tamarguillo overflowed as a result of a prodigious downpour of rain in which three hundred litres of water per square metre fell in a short period.

The front part of the mouth is thick with baleen plates ; around 300 plates ( each around one metre ( 3. 2 ft ) long ) hang from the upper jaw, running 0. 5 m ( 1. 6 ft ) back into the mouth.

Starting in the 1880s, and more significantly by the mid-20th century, CGS was gradually superseded internationally for scientific purposes by the MKS ( metre – kilogram – second ) system, which in turn developed into the modern SI standard.

This is attributed to Hopkins who taught himself Welsh and used sprung verse, bringing some features of Welsh poetic metre into his work.

Drop kicks are also mandatory to restart play from the 20 metre line after an unsuccessful penalty goal attempt goes dead or into touch-in-goal and to score a drop goal ( sometimes known as a field goal ) in open play, which is worth one point.

: APS third rail: The ground-level power supply system known as APS or Alimentation par le sol uses a third rail placed between the running rails, divided electrically into eight-metre segments with three metre neutral sections between.

Although the metre is now defined as the path length travelled by light in a given time, the practical laboratory length measurements in metres are determined by counting the number of wavelengths of laser light of one of the standard types that fit into the length, and converting the selected unit of wavelength to metres.

The SETI League pioneered the conversion of 3 to 5 metre diameter backyard satellite TV dishes into research-grade radio telescopes of modest sensitivity.

" When a poem rhymes ," Heaney wrote, " when a form generates itself, when a metre provokes consciousness into new postures, it is already on the side of life.

The railway into Yunnan is a metre gauge line, the only such line to operate inside China ; it may, however, be converted to standard gauge.

Built across a wide stretch of the river, the barrier divides the river into four and two about 30 metre ( 100 ft ) navigable spans.

The dance begins with a bird picking up some grass and tossing it into the air, catching it in its bill, then progresses to jumping a metre into the air with outstretched wings, then stretching, bowing, walking, calling, and bobbing its head.

The memorial consists of a 1. 5 metre marble globe, to represent that people from 21 countries were killed, and has 202 doves carved into it.

Oceanic lithosphere moves into trenches at a global rate of about a tenth of a square metre per second.

A flux of 1, 000 lumens, concentrated into an area of one square metre, lights up that square metre with an illuminance of 1, 000 lux.

Furthermore within a 500 metre wide strip on the edge of the national park, measures are being put into effect that will protect the adjacent areas.

Swinburne's bold excursions into classical metre had broken new ground ; it was hopeless to attempt to compete, and the poets of the day were looking for fresh forms and variations.

The second oldest line the Línia Llobregat-Anoia was opened in 1892 as an interurban tram using metre gauge tracks, which was taken over by the Companyia General dels Ferrocarrils Catalans ( CGFC ) in 1912 and transformed it into a train line ; CGFC being later taken over by FSB and FCC, followed by the broad gauge Lleida – La Pobla de Segur line in 1951 and operated by RENFE until it was transferred to FGC in 2005-2010.

In 1866 Conington published his most famous work, the translation of the Aeneid of Virgil into the octosyllabic metre of Sir Walter Scott.

The traditional barbed wire used since the late 19th century and into the present day was made from two mild steel wires twisted together, usually of about 12 or 14 gauge, with about 15-30 twists per metre.

This required significant labour as the cement-filled sandbags had to be hand filled, transported to the lake edge by wheelbarrow and positioned by hand into water almost one metre deep.

* Buland Darwaza: Set into the south wall of congregational mosque, the Jama Masjid at Fatehpur Sikri, this stupendous piece of architecture is 54 metre high, from the outside, gradually making a transition to a human scale in the inside.

However, the International Prototype Metre remained the standard until 1960, when the eleventh CGPM defined the metre in the new International System of Units ( SI ) as equal to 1, 650, 763. 73 wavelengths of the orange-red emission line in the electromagnetic spectrum of the krypton-86 atom in a vacuum.

Timing issues on the 500 were a problem within the sport until electronic clocks arrived in the 1960s ; during the 1936 Olympic 500 – metre race, it was suggested that Ivar Ballangrud's 500-metre time was almost a second too good.

Arago continued the work until 1809, his purpose being to measure a meridian arc in order to determine the exact length of a metre.

According to Minnaert, the magnitude of the gradient needs to be at least 2 ° C per metre, and the mirage does not get strong until the magnitude reaches 4 ° or 5 ° C per metre.

* < cite id =" fn_1 "> Note 1 :</ cite > The old, winding course of the Great Ouse was from the bottom of the map, along the green-dotted footpath, just south of the roundabout, along the Holmes River, westwards through the northern fringe of Littleport and northwards between the two brown 0 metre contour lines, until it passed out of the top of the map.

They also commonly use new and clear-felled conifer plantations until the new tree crop is about 5 – 6 years old and a metre or two tall.

* Length of railway network: 3011 km in standard gauge ( until 2005 also 74 km metre gauge )

The metre gauge Brünigbahn was SBB's only non-standard gauge line, until it was out-sourced and merged with the Luzern-Stans-Engelberg-Bahn to form the Zentralbahn, in which SBB holds shares.

With a 920 metre runway and Flight Information Service until the sunset, this regional airport has all the fundamental facilities for private flights.

His world record in the 800 metre race in Florence on 10 June: his 1: 41. 73 in the 800 metres remained unbeaten until August 1997.

It consists of an 80 metre high reinforced concrete tower, and until a fire accident on July 15, 2011, had a guyed tubular mast mounted on top.

Later the Lusatian granodiorite was uplifted over the 600 metre thick sandstone slab along the Lusatian Fault and pushed it downwards until it fractured.

The 57-storey building, containing about 1, 000 luxury apartments, was topped out on 20 December 2003, making it Europe's tallest skyscraper at until the inauguration in 2007 of Moscow's 268 metre Naberezhnaya Tower block C.

Takayoshi finished sixth in the final of the 100 metre event at the 1932 Summer Olympics, the first Japanese man to reach an Olympic final, and the last until Ito Koji achieved the feat in at the 1992 games.

The Cappagh mine, the most productive of several, was financed by Lord Audley ; its 20 metre chimney survived until February 2002, when it was destroyed by a lightning strike.

The Siliguri-Bagdogra-Naxalbari-Thakurganj ( Bihar )- Aluabari Road ( Islampur, Uttar Dinajpur ) railway line was metre gauge until it was converted to broad gauge in 2011.

The locomotives served until 1984, when the line was converted to metre gauge.

This mast, which was originally used for transmitting the program of AFN was until 1969 126 metre high and carried from 1958 to 1969 aerials for FM transmissions.

It used until 1954 a 60 metre tall mast.

On Bielstein mountain, one begun immediately building up an 85 metre tall auxiliary transmission mast for transmitting the TV and FM-programmes which were until the collapse radiated from the Bielstei transmission mast.

The transmission tower built in 1939 is a 43. 31 metre high free-standing cylindrical tower built of steel concrete, which carried until the beginning of the nineties similar to Gerbrandy Tower a guyed steel tube mast on its top.

Originally provided in the 1960s with the development of the port, they were later removed and not restored until 2003 as a 1500 metre long siding.