metre

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He made a game-high103 metres and beat three defenders, setting up Henry Pollock's opening score in the process.

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Agnieszka McIntyre, who runs a restaurant with her husband metres away from the bridge, said the reopening was a relief and footfall at her business had improved.

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It took her all week to even work up the courage to visit this site, which is just metres from where many of the victims died.

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Michael Clark was representing the Great Britain and Northern Ireland in Lagoa, Portugal, when disaster struck and his shoe came off during the first 100 metres.

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Residents in the remote Turkmen village of Bokurdak have long depended on the Karakum Desert for their livelihoods, cultivating every square metre they can in a constant battle with nature.

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