“The room was a spherical shape, surrounded by very thick glass at least a decimetre thick.”

“The litre was defined as the volume equivalent to the volume of a cube, each side of which had a length of 1 decimetre, or 10 centimetres.”

“The units line up in logical rows and columns: micrometre, millimetre, centimetre, decimetre, metre, kilometre, and so on.”

“The length of the bookshelf is one decimeter.”

“A feature of the competition saw Peterborough City Council's environmental control department measuring criers ' voices with a decimeter.”

“The large solar flares of October and November 2003 were accompanied by extremely intense radio emissions at decimeter wavelengths.”

“The bones occur in a dark olive-gray calcareous mudstone layer several decimeters below the thin limestone bed.”

“From the table you can see that there are links from square decimeters to square meters to square decameters to square hectometers.”

“The forehead, eyelids, nose, cheeks, and preauricular regions are uniformly covered with hair, which can reach a length of several decimeters.”

“Clasts vary in size from a few decimetres to well over a metre in the thicker beds.”

“The satellite DOA is then computed using these satellite positions and the known user position with accuracy of a few decimetres or better.”

“Under favourable climatic conditions, however, most prominently in tropical cloud forests, branches may be covered by a veritable soil layer, sometimes decimetres in depth.”