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  • Hundreds of People's Armed Police in camouflage uniform stood at attention at five-meter intervals around the perimeter of Xinhua Square.

    China Makes Effort to Cool Unrest in Inner Mongolia Brian Spegele 2011

  • Lee says he witnessed pigs being flung into five-meter deep pits, causing injuries before they eventually died of suffocation.

    South Korea Claiming Upper Hand in Farm Battle Against Foot-and-Mouth Disease 2011

  • In the 131-patient study, slow walkers — those who took longer than six seconds to cross the five-meter line — were about three times as likely to die or suffer such complications as a stroke or kidney failure and were twice as likely to have a prolonged hospital stay or be discharged to a nursing home after open-heart surgery as those who covered the distance in less than six seconds.

    The Newest Heart Test Is Low-Tech Ron Winslow 2010

  • Daisuke Wakabayashi/The Wall Street Journal A five-meter high tunnel running underneath the runways was entirely flooded; as Miyagi prefecture workers start trying to drain it, they didn't know whether they would uncover bodies.

    Scenes From Sendai 2011

  • I ask nervously, my voice echoing off the five-meter ceiling of a home that used to belong to a count or a prince.

    A Mountain of Crumbs Elena Gorokhova 2010

  • I ask nervously, my voice echoing off the five-meter ceiling of a home that used to belong to a count or a prince.

    A Mountain of Crumbs Elena Gorokhova 2010

  • I received the baton with about a five-meter lead over Gideon Terer of Fairleigh Dickinson University and held him off until the end of the final turn.

    Dave Ungrady: Bolt Feels the Jamaican Beat at Penn Relays 2010

  • A five-meter tongue of pale fire, the nest charring, tumbling.

    Wonder Woman and the Lasso of Truth Boudreau Freret 2010

  • A twenty-five-year-old Kenyan named Radhur Jamur pushes into the lead and quickly opens up a five-meter lead.

    Thirst No. 3 Christopher Pike 2010

  • I received the baton with about a five-meter lead over Gideon Terer of Fairleigh Dickinson University and held him off until the end of the final turn.

    Dave Ungrady: Bolt Feels the Jamaican Beat at Penn Relays Dave Ungrady 2010

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