How To Use Centimetre In A Sentence
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This was replaced in 1956 by a bigger four-stroke engine offering 297 cubic centimetres of raw power.
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Sand volcanoes range in diameter from a few centimetres to several metres.
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The sensor can time this journey down to the nanosecond, ESA says, meaning that the instrument is accurate to within two centimetres.
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You don't get there any quicker by being 20 centimetres rather than 20 metres from the vehicle in front.
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Our modern metric units, like the gram or the centimetre, originate from their handy description of everyday quantities.
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At 193 centimetres, with a huge leap and a booming kick, it was believed that the young star would slot neatly into a key forward post with the Blues.
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Patches can range from a few millimetres to a few centimetres in size.
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Their work is so thorough that in the areas in which they live almost all the soil to a depth of many centimetres has passed through the alimentary tract of an earthworm at some time.
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The overmantel contains its original rectangular mirror plate and has a moulded bead and leaf frame measuring 83 centimetres high by 150 wide.
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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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For technical reasons spatial frequency is expressed in cycles per degree rather than cycles per centimetre.
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Previously, unacquainted passengers could find themselves sharing a ‘double’ berth of only eighty-eight centimetres in width.
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Draw a circle six centimetres in diameter.
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Our modern metric units, like the gram or the centimetre, originate from their handy description of everyday quantities.
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Little threadworms and hookworms are about one centimetre long, while roundworms are about 20 cm long and our friend the tapeworm can reach up to 10 metres in length.
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Squid come in all sizes, from a centimetre to over a metre in length, and the life cycles of different species vary greatly.
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She wanted to look into his eyes but that would mean raising her head and if she did that, because he was so near and she was wearing heels, her lips would be mere centimetres from his.
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Take a handful of clay and roll it out about a centimetre thick.
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Draw a circle six centimetres in diameter.
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This indurated metamorphic rock and its tectonic fabrics are cut across by several centimetre-scale cracks infilled by undeformed quartzitic matrix.
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How many imperial inches are there in one metric centimetre? — Naught point three nine three seven inches.
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The map has a scale of one centimetre to the kilometre.
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The young, which are about a centimetre in length, feed on their reserves for the first few days of life.
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It was difficult getting the piano through the doorway because we only had a clearance of a few centimetres.
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The oddest thing was losing the feet and inches and changing to metres and centimetres.
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An imperial gallon, used in Britain, is equal to 4546 cubic centimetres.
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The line of tiles was running off at a tangent by a centimetre every metre.
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The nine-centimetre Orion refractors are best-suited for viewing the moon, but there's something to be said for being able to do it from the comfort of your plunge pool.
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Previous cryotherapy studies had all used a single cryoprobe and suggested that breast tumours larger than 1.5 centimetres could not be adequately treated, said Dr Littrup.
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It is just a couple of centimetres square, a few millimetres thick and unbelievably easy to use.
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With these branching patterns, roots can be characterized by fractal analysis over a range of scales from about a quarter of a millimetre to several centimetres.
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While flails can cut strong stems, a circular saw is recommended for stems over two centimetres.
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Organic surface horizons are often thicker than 50 centimetres, and peat-cutting is practised in easily accessible areas around lochs and roads.
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I measure 75 centimetres round the waist.
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The biggest sapphires found there range up to three centimetres in length and about half a centimeter in diameter.
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At 23 centimetres high and weighing 3,500 grams the candlesticks are highly ornamental, their tripod bases standing on scallop shell supports, centred by vacant medallions within acanthus leaf foliage on a matted ground.
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Patches can range from a few millimetres to a few centimetres in size.
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Squid come in all sizes, from a centimetre to over a metre in length, and the life cycles of different species vary greatly.
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To decrease the depth of a V neckline, deduct 1 from this figure for each 0.5 centimetre required.
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This ruler has one scale in centimetres and another in inches.
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Go to your local butcher and ask for two tenderloin steaks to be butterflied to about a one centimetre thickness.
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With a gargantuan effort, they obey me, sliding a couple of centimetres in turn.
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Draw a circle 30 centimetres in circumference.
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Cairo has only thirteen square centimetres of green space for each inhabitant.
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The sari is a length of cloth measuring from about four to eight metres by about 120 centimetres.
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Using a slotted spoon, fill the lined bowl with the fruit to about a centimetre below the top.
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Individual coal balls range from a few centimetres to over a metre in length.
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Adverse possession isn't only about slithers of land centimetres wide, occasionally it can be about bigger parcels of land.
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Even the tinies of them looked every centimetre a ‘cricketer’ with all the trappings befitting a test player.
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Dyne (dyn) a unit of force under the centimetre-gram-second or "CGS" system for physical measurements.
Dyne-centimeter
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The sari is a length of cloth measuring from about four to eight metres by about 120 centimetres.
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A lorry driver and his colleague had a narrow escape when a brick hurled by youths struck just centimetres from the windscreen.
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The depth of the shelves is 30 centimetres.
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The scale of alteration can vary in extent from less than a centimetre to many tens of kilometres.
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Standing next to rainforest so dense you couldn't see for more than a few centimetres into it, and hearing the bird so frustratingly close but not being able to see it, is a special sort of torture for twitchers.
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The average height of French soldiers increased by a centimetre in a generation.
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Again and again he did so, a little bit at a time, improving his own record by a centimetre here and a centimetre there.
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The young, which are about a centimetre in length, feed on their reserves for the first few days of life.
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The flower first began to poke out of the soil in March, and in the past few days it had been growing at about six centimetres a day, according to Swissinfo news website.
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One centimetre is equal to 10 millimetres.
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The average height of French soldiers increased by a centimetre in a generation.
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The line of tiles was running off at a tangent by a centimetre every metre.
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By means of a pipette graduated to 0.01 c.c. it is possible to deliver very small quantities; but if the calculated amount runs into thousandth parts of a cubic centimetre, these are replaced by corresponding quantities of normal or even decinormal soda.
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The first man out of the starting gate today will swing and glide over a carpet of man-made snow 80 centimetres deep.
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Peat is an organic soil which contains more than 60 percent of organic matter and exceeds 50 centimetres in thickness.
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They were working to a tolerance of 0.0001 of a centimetre.
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The only way to develop the skill of accurately estimating the distance from the bowl to the jack is to practise doing it and keep on until you gain consistency to within a few centimetres.
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Shoot length was measured in centimetres, from the base to the top, using a fabric tape measure.
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I measure 75 centimetres round the waist.
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If, for example, the osmotic pressure measured is the hundred-millionth of a barye, we shall know that a cubic centimetre of hydrogen under normal conditions (pressure equal to a million baryes) contains 100 million million times n molecules (1014 n).
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The one we found was at a depth of 1.12 metres and measures 3.8 centimetres in length.
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Organic surface horizons are often thicker than 50 centimetres, and peat-cutting is practised in easily accessible areas around lochs and roads.
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This creature, shaped like a slim leaf about 6 centimetres long, lives half-buried in the sand of the sea floor.
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I sent Lieutenants Amir and Yusuf to prospect certain stone-heaps which lay seawards of the graves; and they found a little heptangular demi-lune, concave to the north; the curtains varying from a minimum length of ten to a maximum of eighty me'tres, and the thickness averaging two metres, seventy-five centimetres.
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But the problem is delivery because thousands of injections of stem cells would be needed to cover a cubic centimetre of muscles.
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Your answer must be within a centimetre either way.
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He says such a pen is just two metres long by 60 centimetres wide, with a concrete floor and no bedding.
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All of the common _Ascomycetes_ belong to the second division, and have the spore sacs contained in special structures called spore fruits, that may reach a diameter of several centimetres in a few cases, though ordinarily much smaller.
Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses
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Patches can range from a few millimetres to a few centimetres in size.
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The fruit is about two to five centimetres long and acidic in nature with a sour taste.
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I was surprised to find that my snorkel had melted almost down to the mouthpiece, leaving a stump that would have allowed me to dive in two centimetres of water.
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Draw a circle six centimetres in diameter.
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He had come within centimetres of extending his blessed run, an effort rebounding off the post.
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Branches and trimmings that are over 15 centimetres in diameter are cut into small lengths so that they will dry or decay more quickly and not offer sites for the pinhole beetle.
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Stripping off the costume the wardrobe mistresses had to take in about half a centimetre of the costume since Friday!
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The stems, or 'culms', can range in height from a few centimetres to 40 metres, with stem diameters ranging from 1 mm to 30 cm.
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Examination of forage craters indicated that caribou had to contend with only a few centimetres of soft powder snow with a loose granular base.
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Shoot length was measured in centimetres, from the base to the top, using a fabric tape measure.
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These have only one centimetre of padding and leave the thumb free to fold in safely.
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Unfortunately the aperture was just a couple of centimetres too narrow.
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It was difficult getting the piano through the doorway because we only had a clearance of a few centimetres.
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The water table is hurtling down not by centimetres or inches but, hold your breath, metres!
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Backstage crews were forced to rebuild the pod three times because they hadn't got it down to the closest centimetre.
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Dustin said he had found asbestos chunks up to 10 centimetres square.
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The Chancellor's cap shall be a black velvet trencher cap with gold tassel and button and trimmed with three centimetres gold braid.
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The bright flowers were dug out of a mine in a mountain range of the Dominican Republic and are almost one centimetre in length.
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How many imperial inches are there in one metric centimetre? — Naught point three nine three seven inches.
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One litre is equivalent to 1,000 cubic centimetres.
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Hazel cut off a strip of the sheet about twenty centimetres wide and a metre long.
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Rates of sedimentation may range from a few centimetres to about a metre per thousand years.
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I trimmed two centimetres off the hem of the skirt.
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By the end of Monday, we expect to see three to five centimetres of snow, with higher accumulations towards the Pennines, the North York Moors and the Wolds.
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The shale is extremely fragile, and Gess's main tool has been a pen knife, with which he systematically prises layers apart, centimetre by centimetre, or even millimetre by millimetre.
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Individual coal balls range from a few centimetres to over a metre in length.
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During the day they retreat into shallow burrows a few centimetres below the ground.
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How many hydra per cubic centimetre teem in that pond?
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The mature shell size also varies from small species a few centimetres across to giants of a metre or more in diameter.
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The trigeminal alone had a spinal root which wandered down for a few centimetres past the decussation of the pyramids.
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According the regulations the corrugated iron sheets lap 10 centimetres over each other.
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An erg is the unit of energy and mechanical work The erg is a small unit, equal to a force of one dyne exerted for a distance of one centimetre.
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They can hit a target to within one centimetre from 16 miles.
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The fact that it is also the sveltest laptop yet made-it out-thins both the MacBook Air and HP's Envy, measuring just 1.7 centimetres at its portliest point-is almost a secondary selling point next to its sophisticated and alluring design.
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According the regulations the corrugated iron sheets lap 10 centimetres over each other.
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The first of these coats the walls and bounding convolutions of the calcarine fissure, and is distinguished by the well-known line of Gennari or Vicq dAzyr; the second area forms an investing zone a centimetre or more broad around the first, and is characterized by a remarkable wealth of fibers, as well as by curious pyriform cells of large size richly stocked with chromophilic elementscells which seem to have escaped the observation of Ramón y Cajal, Bolton, and others who have worked at this region.
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She wanted to have her skirt let down several centimetres.
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The plants ranged in height from five centimetres to over a metre.
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The plant is succulent with leaves in tight rosettes more or less four centimetres or more across in diameter.
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But the steering wheel had not and ended up just ten centimetres from the seat.
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Panorama averages 475 centimetres of snowfall annually, one of the lowest totals in the East Kootenay.
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My face had dropped five centimetres because of the bone damage and my teeth were hanging out.
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A centimetre is a unit of length.
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They told me they removed a ductal cancer of two to three centimetres in diameter.
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Lieutenants Amir and Yusuf to prospect certain stone-heaps which lay seawards of the graves; and they found a little heptangular demi-lune, concave to the north; the curtains varying from a minimum length of ten to a maximum of eighty me’tres, and the thickness averaging two metres, seventy-five centimetres.
The Land of Midian
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The latter is calibrated in centimetres, but most people will probably only use the rod as a rough guide.
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Hazel cut off a strip of the sheet about twenty centimetres wide and a metre long.
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Beds of magnesite range in average thickness from five centimetres to five metres.
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Its leaves are small, thin, slightly hairy, alternate, cordate and two to four centimetres long.
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Sand volcanoes range in diameter from a few centimetres to several metres.
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The bullet missed his heart by a couple of centimetres.
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These have only one centimetre of padding and leave the thumb free to fold in safely.
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Each new paragraph should be indented about two centimetres from the margin.
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Patches can range from a few millimetres to a few centimetres in size.
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The plant is succulent with leaves in tight rosettes more or less four centimetres or more across in diameter.
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THIS tiny squid just one centimetre long was the winning catch in a national fishing competition.
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During the day they retreat into shallow burrows a few centimetres below the ground.
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The annual snowfall for this region is 30 centimetres.
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The decks expand by four centimetres, the arch can flex by eighteen depending on temperature.
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Make two more lengthways cuts a couple of centimetres either side of the first.
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Only one main branch is permitted, along which shoots above branch level are spaced at a minimum of 15 centimetre intervals.
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Individual coal balls range from a few centimetres to over a metre in length.
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It was now four centimetres wide and had become an itchy, open sore which bled regularly.
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The adult guinea-pig can grow to as much as 30 centimetres in length and 1200 grams in weight.
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Most bivalve fossils are a few centimetres long; the ideal size for collecting.
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Eleven centimetre long shoot segments were obtained from internodes of previous year shoots, placed vertically and fitted to plastic tubing.
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These have only one centimetre of padding and leave the thumb free to fold in safely.
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The hollow in the stone was about 20 centimetres in diameter and about 30 centimetres deep.
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The piece of styrofoam washing up to shore contrasts starkly with the shellfish pushing through the sand a centimetre beneath the surface.
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Scientific knowledge will not advance by one centimetre as a result of them.
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The ash is local in occurrence; its maximum thickness is about 1m, but it thins laterally to a few tens of centimetres over about 40 m.
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The scale of alteration can vary in extent from less than a centimetre to many tens of kilometres.
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Peter Vanezis, a pathologist, told the hearing that the fatal injury was brain haemorrhaging caused by a 15-centimetre skull fracture.
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Snow 17-24 centimetres deep has slowed rescue efforts and made it difficult for local herdsmen to feed their animals.
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Its nose is only a few centimetres long but will get much longer.
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The roof beams were 50 centimetres square in cross-section.
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It was about ten centimetres square, about five centimetres thick and wrapped in brown paper sealed with self-adhesive tape.
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The architecture of the lower lava sequence is now discussed on the centimetre to metre scale.
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The flowers are 12 centimetres (0.40.8 in) across, yellow, with five pointed lobes on the corolla; they are borne in a cyme of 312 together.
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The water table is hurtling down not by centimetres or inches but, hold your breath, metres!
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A small atom would now measure less than half a centimetre and the DNA molecule would be a few centimetres across.
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The trigeminal alone had a spinal root which wandered down for a few centimetres past the decussation of the pyramids to finish at the level of the second cervical nerve.
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Fourteen-centimetre shells sit on the sea floor nearby, in what is left of the worm-eaten wooden boxes that once held them.
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A centimetre is a unit of length.
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How many imperial inches are there in one metric centimetre? — Naught point three nine three seven inches.
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It has a steady flight, often within a few centimetres of the water surface and is reminiscent of a small hovercraft.
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Hereupon it was revealed that the blister, roughly three quarters of a centimetre in diameter, had, tragically, burst.
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If pressure decreases by one millibar, the sea level rises by one centimetre.
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This time you need the top two centimetres from a thick carrot.
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He says such a pen is just two metres long by 60 centimetres wide, with a concrete floor and no bedding.
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If they were packed tightly there could be 5 thousand million of them in a cubic centimetre of inflammation.
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Don't you find it disconcerting when you have someone literally five centimetres from your face, peering into your eyes with a torch?
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He leaned closer until their faces were a centimetre apart. ‘Still answering back, Mr Potter!’
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Previous cryotherapy studies had all used a single cryoprobe and suggested that tumours larger than 1.5 centimetres could not be adequately treated, said Dr Littrup.
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The sexual plant, which is here called the "prothallium," is of very simple structure, resembling the lower liverworts usually, and never reaches more than about a centimetre in diameter, and is often much smaller than this.
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A small atom would now measure less than half a centimetre and the DNA molecule would be a few centimetres across.
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The roof tiles will need an overlap of several centimetres.
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Cairo has only thirteen square centimetres of green space for each inhabitant.
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Put the soil into a sack measuring 50 centimetres across.
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The cup grows a centimetre or so high and wide and is attached to the cave wall by a short stalk.
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Simply make a bag from a piece of muslin cloth, twenty-five centimetres square, and attach a draw string to close it.
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The sari is a length of cloth measuring from about four to eight metres by about 120 centimetres.
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According the regulations the corrugated iron sheets lap 10 centimetres over each other.
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Although wireless charging technology has been around for a few years, researchers have struggled to extend its effective range beyond a few centimetres.
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They examined the 10-centimetre trench it scooped out with one of its six wheels, measuring the composition of the clumpy soil and photographing it with a microscopic imager.
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Dyne (dyn) a unit of force under the centimetre-gram-second or "CGS" system for physical measurements.
Dyne-centimeter
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The five centimetres of the lacquered triplex door were the only degrees separating the two from each other now.
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His legs are locked around the monkey bars, his arms folded, his head centimetres from the tanbark.
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The latter will be bound and faced with approximately 3 centimetre contrast bands on armholes and hemlines and will stand alongside 1980's influenced extravagant open split dolman / batwing sleeve dresses.
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The homemade agnolotti - La Tavola's take are round ravioli-type filled pasta, about four centimetres across - were lovely.
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The oddest thing was losing the feet and inches and changing to metres and centimetres.
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The biggest sapphires found there range up to three centimetres in length and about half a centimeter in diameter.
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But residents say that bins with lids open by less than a centimetre have been left unemptied.
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A compromise was reached when 30 centimetres was lopped off the surface, leaving enough gradient to constitute a slope while appeasing opposition clubs that had been troubled by the rise.
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He says such a pen is just two metres long by 60 centimetres wide, with a concrete floor and no bedding.
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At that rate each nanometre would equate to one centimetre.
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Using several hours of measurements, accuracies of 5 mm can be achieved, and precisions of a few centimetres can be realized in seconds even for moving receivers (kinematic GPS) close to a fixed station.
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The oddest thing was losing the feet and inches and changing to metres and centimetres.
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The man in question he said was about 170 centimetres tall, of fairly solid build, with short blondish beach-coloured hair.
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The plants ranged in height from five centimetres to over a metre.
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The two main radar booms are 20-metre long hollow cylinders, of 2.5 centimetres diameter, folded up in a box like a concertina (accordion).
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But have only one centimetre of bare flesh in contact - and the building would absorb you.
