1 She was perhaps three metres away from him.
2 When he had gone fifty metres he looked back.
3 Winston looked back when he had gone thirty metres.
4 Yet the cage with the rats was not two metres away from him.
5 It was a sheer drop of ten or twenty metres, with boulders at the bottom.
6 A figure in blue overalls was coming down the pavement, not ten metres away.
7 This place was many metres underground, as deep down as it was possible to go.
8 Parsons boasted that Victory Mansions alone would display four hundred metres of bunting.
9 A thrush had alighted on a bough not five metres away, almost at the level of their faces.
10 They were perhaps four metres apart when the girl stumbled and fell almost flat on her face.
11 He was hurrying along with frozen hands and watering eyes when he saw her not ten metres away from him.
12 They were a few metres apart when the left side of the man's face was suddenly contorted by a sort of spasm.
13 It depicted simply an enormous face, more than a metre wide: the face of a man of about forty-five, with a heavy black moustache and ruggedly handsome features.
14 He was particularly enthusiastic about a papier-mache model of Big Brother's head, two metres wide, which was being made for the occasion by his daughter's troop of Spies.
15 Although it was three or four metres away from him, he could see that the cage was divided lengthways into two compartments, and that there was some kind of creature in each.
16 It had no caption, and represented simply the monstrous figure of a Eurasian soldier, three or four metres high, striding forward with expressionless Mongolian face and enormous boots, a submachine gun pointed from his hip.
17 And a few cubicles away a mild, ineffectual, dreamy creature named Ampleforth, with very hairy ears and a surprising talent for juggling with rhymes and metres, was engaged in producing garbled versions--definitive texts, they were called--of poems which had become ideologically offensive, but which for one reason or another were to be retained in the anthologies.
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