The shelf is about a metre long—well, 98cm, to be precise.

架子长约一米。嗯，精确地说，是98厘米。

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"Joey" was a length of garden hose about half a metre long.

“乔伊”是一根长约半米的花园软管。

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In 1919, for example, a humpback whale with a pair of leglike appendages over a metre long, complete with a full set of limb bones, was caught off Vancouver Island in Canada.

例如，1919年，在加拿大温哥华岛附近捕获了一条座头鲸，它有一对长达1米多的腿状附肢，还有完整的整套肢骨。

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He hopes to find a new home for the female crocodile, who is four or five years old and currently a metre long, at a local safari park.

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Well over a hundred giant tortoises live on Cousin, some of which have reached truly enormous sizes, measuring more than a metre long and weighing in excess of 350kg.

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The animal, which may have grown from half-a-metre long to more than three feet, was described as "quite shy".

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