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They were set every few meters along a seventy-meter section of tube they thought to be the control room, and along another forty-meter section they guessed corresponded to engineering.
Creative Couplings John S. Drew 2005
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They were set every few meters along a seventy-meter section of tube they thought to be the control room, and along another forty-meter section they guessed corresponded to engineering.
Creative Couplings John S. Drew 2005
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They were set every few meters along a seventy-meter section of tube they thought to be the control room, and along another forty-meter section they guessed corresponded to engineering.
Creative Couplings John S. Drew 2005
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As the 2003 season approached, Ian and Shahina made plans to open up a huge, forty-meter by forty-meter trench just south of Building 5 and the BACH area.
The Goddess and the Bull MICHAEL BALTER 2005
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They were set every few meters along a seventy-meter section of tube they thought to be the control room, and along another forty-meter section they guessed corresponded to engineering.
Creative Couplings John S. Drew 2005
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They were set every few meters along a seventy-meter section of tube they thought to be the control room, and along another forty-meter section they guessed corresponded to engineering.
Creative Couplings John S. Drew 2005
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They stood before a sheer forty-meter drop into the heavily acidic ocean.
No Limits Peter David 2003
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A forty-meter drop to the next ledge, but if I took a running jump, I could clear it.
Enemy Mine Longyear, Barry 1979
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They waited, even Boss maintained an unaccustomed silence, while the newcomer took in the details of the forty-meter, cigar-shaped spaceship.
Natives of Space Clement, Hal 1965
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The boat was a forty-meter column of steely comfortlessness, standing among its fellows at the end of Nomad Valley.
Starways Anderson, Poul 1956
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