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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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • They stood before a sheer forty-meter drop into the heavily acidic ocean.

    No Limits Peter David 2003

  • A forty-meter drop to the next ledge, but if I took a running jump, I could clear it.

    Enemy Mine Longyear, Barry 1979

  • 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

  • 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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