Our modern metric units, like the gram or the centimetre, originate from their handy description of everyday quantities. |
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Surf lifesavers removed the 60 centimetre shark by hosing it with fresh water. |
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If pressure decreases by one millibar, the sea level rises by one centimetre. |
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Men in polyester trousers, sharply creased, cut to bag out womanishly at the thighs and hemmed too short, exposing a centimetre of sock. |
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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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Looking in the bottom of my glass, sure enough, I could see about a centimetre of sediment! |
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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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Timber can usually soften and take about 100 kilograms, 1,000 newtons per square centimetre. |
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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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He had rough stubble on his face and had a shaved head with dark hair about half a centimetre long. |
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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 architecture of the lower lava sequence is now discussed on the centimetre to metre scale. |
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The line of tiles was running off at a tangent by a centimetre every metre. |
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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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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 young, which are about a centimetre in length, feed on their reserves for the first few days of life. |
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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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Huge cauliflower soft corals, basket stars and brightly coloured sponges seem to cover almost every centimetre of reef. |
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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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For a high incidence of mail, for example to a company, the space-saving letterbox is also available in a 20 or 30 centimetre height version. |
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Use toothpicks to hold the potato approximately one centimetre above the bottom of the tea cup and add water. |
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Arms crossed, jaw set, I settled in, daring him to get one centimetre tackier. |
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All of these survive in the top centimetre of mud where oxygen and light will allow them to photosynthesize. |
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Further evidence of multiphase folding is given by crenulation or microfolding with hinge zones a centimetre or so apart which crinkle an earlier cleavage or schistosity. |
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I think the value ultimately should come down to 0.1 microwatts per centimetre squared. |
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In town, where every centimetre counts, its size gives you a serious edge when getting around. |
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This involves swabbing a square centimetre area of an establishment's food preparation surfaces with a cotton swab to determine the number of viable bacteria present. |
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The units line up in logical rows and columns: micrometre, millimetre, centimetre, decimetre, metre, kilometre, and so on. |
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Peel, deseed and cut the cucumber into 2 slices lengthways, half a centimetre thick. |
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Season with salt and pepper, and use a piping bag to pipe the mixture into the verrines, leaving half a centimetre free at the top. |
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There is a land mine called the black widow or the PMW, a 10 centimetre plastic mine with 240 grams of TNT that can rip off a leg at the hip. |
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The data collected in 16-hours of 3D scanning in 4 centimetre wide bands required more than a year's worth of analysis. |
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The contour interval is 1 centimetre, with red denoting high sea level and blue denoting low sea level. |
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Use a sharp knife to remove the roots and outer corm layers to a depth of one-third of a centimetre. |
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A hand clamped in a robot's gripper, for instance, can probably safely bear a pressure of 160 newtons per square centimetre. |
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The second one indicates the number of threads per centimetre or per inch respectively of the warp and of the weft. |
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For this, a safety factor should be introduced in the above value, of one microwatt per square centimetre. |
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But even if we went down to 1 microwatt per centimetre squared, it would be taking a huge step forward. |
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Within that so-called window, around the intensity value of 10 microwatts per square centimetre, the effect becomes even stronger. |
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They're less than 10 microwatts per centimetre squared for radio frequencies. |
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Exposure guidelines in various countries range from 0.001 to 10,000 microwatts per centimetre squared, and this alone should alert everyone. |
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In the centimetre gram second system the dielectric constant is identical to the permittivity. |
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You have an interfacial surface tension factor of about 33 dynes per centimetre for sand to bitumen, or clay to bitumen. |
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The Flower Cooler comes with a fan that attaches to the case itself rather than the heat sink, and hovers a centimetre or so above the fins to ensure maximum airflow. |
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In a single cubic centimetre of neutron star material there are around 100m tons of matter. |
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When we shrink sizes into the millionths of a centimetre, matter violates Newton's familiar laws of classical mechanics. |
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So, it was decided to make a feature of the joins by cutting the perspex into 50 centimetre squares to look like tiles. |
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Members of this House will not be surprised that my wife and I have walked, cycled, and skied every centimetre of every trail in this region. |
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The latest generation of petawatt lasers, for example, can produce focused infrared pulses with an intensity of 10 21 watts per square centimetre. |
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Natural ventilation works best when the roof slope rises 10 centimetres on a 30 centimetre run. |
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For each centimetre that the sea level rose, there would be one million more displaced. |
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We have as good a record as anyone in this area and I would not want to see us detract from that by one centimetre. |
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The area affected must be visible from a standing position and cover an area of at least one square centimetre. |
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Each square centimetre is used, and therefore the use of all space must be justified. |
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You can also investigate practically every square centimetre of our beautiful country on horseback. |
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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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The knotting board has a raster of half a centimetre. |
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In the pristine Amazon Basin the scientists detected aerosol particle number concentrations of a mere several hundred per cubic centimetre. |
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The Lötschberg tunnel had to be specially adapted and the flatcars lowered to enable vehicles up to four meters high and 44 tonnes to use the system, which is calculated down to the last centimetre. |
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For typical densities of crustal rocks of two to three grams per cubic centimetre, one kilobar of lithostatic pressure is generated by a column of overlying rocks approximately 3.5 kilometres high. |
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The water equivalent of snowfall for most climatologically stations is estimated by simply assuming the freshly fallen snow has a density of 0.10 gram per cubic centimetre. |
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The weight of the child was measured to the nearest hectogram using Health Scale model TZ 120 and the length to the nearest centimetre in recumbent position. |
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By introducing a safety factor of 10, the above value becomes 0.1 microwatts per square centimetre, which is the limit proposed by the BioInitiative Report. |
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A few years ago, there was a conference in Salzburg, Austria. They came up with the Convention on the Protection of the Alps, which is the one I was referring to and sets the figure of 0.1 microwatts per centimetre squared. |
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The kinematic factor includes such terms as the electronic charge and mass, the number of atoms per cubic centimetre of the medium, and the velocity of the incident charged particle. |
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When passing a smoker, up to 300,000 pollution particles per cubic centimetre were recorded. |
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It can store more than a gigabyte of information equivalent to around 12 hours of music in one cubic centimetre. |
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Available in two versions, as wall light or hanging light: The wall light consists of a round screen in pleated polycarbonated available in various colour variations and an 11 centimetre long arm in chromed metal. |
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Here the average amount of sunscreen was between 0.5 and 1 mg per square centimetre and at that level, significantly lower than what is recommended for optimal skin protection. |
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Mr. Ayobi: Yes, you should cover the pit with narrow-weaved wire mesh or netting attached to a five centimetre by five centimetre wooden board for a gate. |
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All right, nobody used decimetres in practice but a centimetre is a very useful unit. |
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It is used for a variety of astronomical projects at decimetre and centimetre wavelengths, although its primary use is in measuring the 1.42 GHz atomic hydrogen line. |
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Each corner edge rests on its own supporting block, applying to it a pressure of 3 to 4 kilograms per square centimetre, and each block is joined to the others by walls. |
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I have noted that what is important here is the handling of asbestos, air-placed asbestos or asbestos cement, the processes they undergo and the amount of fibres released per cubic centimetre. |
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If you are looking for a radical change and choose a shade that is very different from your natural colour, you should be aware that hair grows about one centimetre per month on average. |
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The problem is that they didn't allow for the extra centimetre of overlap, so it didn't fit correctly. |
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This intensity value of 10 microwatts per square centimetre corresponds to a distance of about 20 to 30 centimetres from a mobile phone handset or 20 to 30 metres from a base station antenna. |
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The green skin constructed of pre-patinated copper with its 30 centimetre deep window openings gives the building an austere, and at the same time, reposing sculptural appearance. |
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Utter bliss? from top to toe, every centimetre of your skin learns to relax under this long-lasting massage, gently carried out with the utmost dexterity and suppleness. |
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BackBlocks are available for about pounds 30 but a cheaper homemade substitute is to lie over a five centimetre stack of books. |
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Among the key discoveries is the 10 centimetre long Berthe's mouse lemur, the world's smallest primate. |
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In a comprehensive study, they found the inside of a typical car has 283 different bacteria present in every square centimetre. |
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Every square centimetre of the planet's land surface, with the exception of Antartica, is part of one nation-state or another. |
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The external fat cover must not exceed one centimetre at any point. |
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According to the research team, each individual nerve fibre was responsible for touch signals from roughly a square centimetre of skin. |
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With their 8 metre inside diameter, these exceed the two 65 centimetre ones twelvefold. |
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Starting very early in the morning, more than 100 volunteers, course workers, Silver Star Mountain groomers, and coaches were rushed to the race track to battle 15 centimetre of fresh snow. |
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However, during surgery, the brain can shift up to a centimetre due to a slight movement of the head, retraction of the brain, or the draining of fluid around a cyst. |
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In the electrostatic units of the centimetre gram second system, the unit of electromotive force is the statvolt, or one erg per electrostatic unit of charge. |
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One of those examined, who had been arrested the previous day, showed a haematoma on his right upper lip with a small horizontal cut on his inside lip, half a centimetre long. |
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A short pre-acromion incision a little over one centimetre is used to introduce the square point and the proximal reamer and lastly, the nail with its nail holder. |
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I can barely afford a cubic centimetre of the duplex, but that's not what depresses me the most. |
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Each bubble results in an increase in output voltage of some 2 to 5 microvolts, and the device has a power density of some 2 microwatts per cubic centimetre. |
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The aim of the latest programme is to combine odour sensors with signal processing components on to a single silicon chip, a square centimetre in size. |
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Pattinson over-strode by a mere centimetre, with his heel landing on the popping crease, but the third umpire made the correct call to let Amla stay. |
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One litre of liquid water has a mass of almost exactly one kilogram, due to the gram being defined in 1795 as one cubic centimetre of water at the temperature of melting ice. |
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The 15 to 20 centimetre baby spectacled Caimans were seized at Larnaca airport in October, after their arrival from the Netherlands along with a batch of 159 birds. |
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Thanks to the Suzuki's flat front, Hammond came close to a centimetre. |
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What does a cubic centimetre of water weigh at room temperature? |
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To the strains of plinky plonky harp music, her fingertips hovered a centimetre or two above my face, occasionally coming into land for a light prod. |
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A study of elderly people by John Hopkins University in Baltimore, USA, found those with impaired hearing lost an extra cubic centimetre of little grey cells every year. |
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