“Our modern metric units, like the gram or the centimetre, originate from their handy description of everyday quantities.”

“The line of tiles was running off at a tangent by a centimetre every metre.”

“Huge cauliflower soft corals, basket stars and brightly coloured sponges seem to cover almost every centimetre of reef.”

“These channels can be as small as one centimeter wide or as large as several meters.”

“The catch is that radar uses radio waves in the microwave frequency range, or approximately one centimeter in wavelength.”

“One indexing line on the disk equals one centimeter deviation at 100 meters.”

“She was met with the tip of a black sword quivering centimeters away from her nose.”

“One meter is equivalent to 1.09 yards and one inch is equivalent to 2.54 centimeters.”

“Her fingernails were of medium length, about four centimeters long, and she had painted them dark purple.”

“Its leaves are small, thin, slightly hairy, alternate, cordate and two to four centimetres long.”

“The decks expand by four centimetres, the arch can flex by eighteen depending on temperature.”

“Above their heads, concealed by ceiling panels, was a space of perhaps 50 centimetres containing pipework, ducts and cables.”