Sentence examples for a metrication from inspiring English sources

South Africa (then not a member of the Commonwealth) set up a Metrication Advisory Board in 1967, New Zealand set up its Metric Advisory Board in 1969, Australia passed the Metric Conversion Act in 1970 and Canada appointed a Metrication Commission in 1971.

India was one of the last countries to start a metrication programme before the advent of SI.

In the United Kingdom the breakdown of voluntary metrication in the mid-1970s coincided with the United Kingdom's obligations as part of the EEC to adopt the metric system, resulting in legislation to force metrication in certain areas and the Eurosceptic movement adopting an anti-metrication stance and the United Kingdom seeking a number of derogations from the relevant EEC directives.

The United Kingdom has officially adopted a partial metrication policy, with no intention of replacing imperial units entirely.

In reality, the UK agreed to gradually adopt a metric system in 1965 and created the Metrication Board to coordinate the process in 1969.

Metrication in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa was essentially complete within a decade while metrication in India and Canada is not complete.

The Board of Trade, on behalf of the Government, agreed to support a ten-year metrication programme.

A Select Committee report of 1862 recommended compulsory metrication, but with an "Intermediate permissive phase", Parliament responded in 1864 by legalising metric units only for 'contracts and dealings'.

The conflicts over metrication tell a messy truth: no single system of measurements is ideal for all uses.

Another reform in 1856 increased the civil pound from 467.711 g to 500.000 g (the German civil pound defined by the Zollverein), as a first step towards metrication.

In 1965 Britain commenced an official program of metrication that, as of 2012, had not been completed.