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I heard a big noise, and the next thing I know I was swept away by the snow, i must have been swept almost 200 meters (yards). – Pemba Sherpa	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
At night we heard the sound of firing just 100 meters (330 feet) away from my house. The next morning when the forces had left and we came out of the house we saw 13 people had been shot dead, even though I was a child, I still remember the bodies everywhere and how their clothes were covered in blood. All those scenes are still alive in my memory. – Abdul Nasir Sawabi	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
We were literally a few hundred meters away; they said the ship was sinking and they were abandoning the Thunder, we invited the crew -- 40 of them -- on board, had a medical officer check them over, provided them with food and water. – Sea Shepherd	Found on CNN 9 years ago
We are a few meters from the finishing line. – President Obama	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
If you look at the number of people who can afford a boat the size that we build we haven't even scratched the surface, there are approximately 6,000 to 7,000 yachts over 25 meters in the world and when you look at the total group of millionaires (and) billionaires in the world especially here in this region the potential is vast. – Patrick Coote	Found on CNN 9 years ago
As one sees the cross on the summit, the final meters are the most difficult but also the decisive ones. That's what has to be done here in the coming hours and days. – German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier	Found on CNN 9 years ago
After 10 more minutes, the scaffolding, which was about 20 meters (65 feet) high, suddenly collapsed. I quickly grabbed an iron bar but fell free, people were screaming, calling for help from the rubble. – Dinh Ninh Dan	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
After they entered the museum. I saw their faces: They were about 10 meters away from me, i managed to hide behind a pillar, there were unlucky people who they killed right there. – Josep Lluis Cusido	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
We have the right to know what is below the Adriatic and after we find out how many cubic meters of gas we have, we can decide to plug it and not touch the wells any more. – Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We are a just a few meters from peace between Bamako and the north and it is precisely because we are so close to peace that its terrorist adversaries want to strike. – Morocco France foreign minister	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Current capacity ... is over 1.3 million cubic meters (mcm) in Jubail, and we have some capacity in Yanbu as well, through the joint venture that we have with SABIC we will build new capacity. The first phase is about 220,000 cubic meters and we are looking into the second phase of about 350,000 cubic meters. – Frank Erkelens	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The defendant rolled right over his brother and dragged his body about 50 feet (15 meters) down the street. – William Weinreb	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
There was a heavy downpour today and soon after the rains stopped?, a car drove along the road and two explosives were thrown at the motor park, which killed five people, the car threw another explosive in the midst of grocers outside the main bus station some hundreds of meters away, killing 12 people and wounding many. – Sagir Badaru	Found on CNN 9 years ago
The car threw another explosive in the midst of grocers outside the main bus station some hundreds of meters away, killing 12 people and wounding many. – Sagir Badaru	Found on CNN 9 years ago
We turned (the existing grid) into a communication platform by adding just small modems of the nodes of the network, we now have data available everywhere. We can send control data from the utility to remote places, we can send information back from the meters, from measurement devices about power quality, about the current status of the grid. – Thomas Wolski	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Beijing 2015 world championships is my priority, when I start training in Flagstaff (Arizona) in April, then it will be to get ready for the outdoor season. The 5,000 meters is my focus. – Bernard Lagat	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
He was physically there at the gathering, but he would have had to be within three meters of someone to transmit an infection. – Jason Davis	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
This is really the last big piece of Merensky reef available above a thousand meters. – Michael Jones	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Better pipelines, flow meters, cutoff switches, more inspectors — something has got to be done. until we start holding companies fully accountable with penalties, I don't think we're going to change this whole situation we have in North Dakota. – Daryl Peterson	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Technology exists to prevent these spills and nothing is being done, better pipelines, flow meters, cutoff switches, more inspectors — something has got to be done. – Wayde Schafer	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
I've been at sea for 30 years and I’ve never seen a shark that looks like that, it was like a large eel, probably 1.5 meters [5 feet] long, and the body was quite different to any other shark I'd ever seen. – David Guillot	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
There's nothing left for me over 5,000 and 10,000 meters, so the marathon is very important for my career -- it's a new challenge, the marathon is a different race -- you have to run a steady pace from the beginning. – Kenenisa Bekele	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Latvijas Gaze has transported 100,000 cubic meters of gas from Lithuania to Estonia last week. – Vinsents Makaris	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
From the entire frieze that survives today, 50 meters are in the Acropolis Museum, 80 meters in the British Museum, one block in the Louvre. – British Museum	Found on CNN 9 years ago

I heard a big noise, and the next thing I know I was swept away by the snow, i must have been swept almost 200 meters (yards).

– Pemba Sherpa

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

At night we heard the sound of firing just 100 meters (330 feet) away from my house. The next morning when the forces had left and we came out of the house we saw 13 people had been shot dead, even though I was a child, I still remember the bodies everywhere and how their clothes were covered in blood. All those scenes are still alive in my memory.

– Abdul Nasir Sawabi

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

We were literally a few hundred meters away; they said the ship was sinking and they were abandoning the Thunder, we invited the crew -- 40 of them -- on board, had a medical officer check them over, provided them with food and water.

– Sea Shepherd

Found on CNN
9 years ago

We are a few meters from the finishing line.

– President Obama

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

If you look at the number of people who can afford a boat the size that we build we haven't even scratched the surface, there are approximately 6,000 to 7,000 yachts over 25 meters in the world and when you look at the total group of millionaires (and) billionaires in the world especially here in this region the potential is vast.

– Patrick Coote

Found on CNN
9 years ago

As one sees the cross on the summit, the final meters are the most difficult but also the decisive ones. That's what has to be done here in the coming hours and days.

– German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier

Found on CNN
9 years ago

After 10 more minutes, the scaffolding, which was about 20 meters (65 feet) high, suddenly collapsed. I quickly grabbed an iron bar but fell free, people were screaming, calling for help from the rubble.

– Dinh Ninh Dan

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

After they entered the museum. I saw their faces: They were about 10 meters away from me, i managed to hide behind a pillar, there were unlucky people who they killed right there.

– Josep Lluis Cusido

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

We have the right to know what is below the Adriatic and after we find out how many cubic meters of gas we have, we can decide to plug it and not touch the wells any more.

– Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We are a just a few meters from peace between Bamako and the north and it is precisely because we are so close to peace that its terrorist adversaries want to strike.

– Morocco France foreign minister

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Current capacity ... is over 1.3 million cubic meters (mcm) in Jubail, and we have some capacity in Yanbu as well, through the joint venture that we have with SABIC we will build new capacity. The first phase is about 220,000 cubic meters and we are looking into the second phase of about 350,000 cubic meters.

– Frank Erkelens

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The defendant rolled right over his brother and dragged his body about 50 feet (15 meters) down the street.

– William Weinreb

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

There was a heavy downpour today and soon after the rains stopped?, a car drove along the road and two explosives were thrown at the motor park, which killed five people, the car threw another explosive in the midst of grocers outside the main bus station some hundreds of meters away, killing 12 people and wounding many.

– Sagir Badaru

Found on CNN
9 years ago

The car threw another explosive in the midst of grocers outside the main bus station some hundreds of meters away, killing 12 people and wounding many.

– Sagir Badaru

Found on CNN
9 years ago

We turned (the existing grid) into a communication platform by adding just small modems of the nodes of the network, we now have data available everywhere. We can send control data from the utility to remote places, we can send information back from the meters, from measurement devices about power quality, about the current status of the grid.

– Thomas Wolski

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Beijing 2015 world championships is my priority, when I start training in Flagstaff (Arizona) in April, then it will be to get ready for the outdoor season. The 5,000 meters is my focus.

– Bernard Lagat

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

He was physically there at the gathering, but he would have had to be within three meters of someone to transmit an infection.

– Jason Davis

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

This is really the last big piece of Merensky reef available above a thousand meters.

– Michael Jones

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Better pipelines, flow meters, cutoff switches, more inspectors — something has got to be done. until we start holding companies fully accountable with penalties, I don't think we're going to change this whole situation we have in North Dakota.

– Daryl Peterson

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Technology exists to prevent these spills and nothing is being done, better pipelines, flow meters, cutoff switches, more inspectors — something has got to be done.

– Wayde Schafer

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

I've been at sea for 30 years and I’ve never seen a shark that looks like that, it was like a large eel, probably 1.5 meters [5 feet] long, and the body was quite different to any other shark I'd ever seen.

– David Guillot

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

There's nothing left for me over 5,000 and 10,000 meters, so the marathon is very important for my career -- it's a new challenge, the marathon is a different race -- you have to run a steady pace from the beginning.

– Kenenisa Bekele

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Latvijas Gaze has transported 100,000 cubic meters of gas from Lithuania to Estonia last week.

– Vinsents Makaris

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

From the entire frieze that survives today, 50 meters are in the Acropolis Museum, 80 meters in the British Museum, one block in the Louvre.

– British Museum

Found on CNN
9 years ago

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