Sentence examples for a millimeter or two from inspiring English sources

A millimeter or two, doctors said.

Mr. Watts's '97 cabernet conveys an impression that it is almost mature, perhaps just a millimeter or two from its peak.

William Ellsworth, chief scientist with the Geological Survey, said the San Andreas fault responded to the quake by moving slightly, probably a millimeter or two.

The Writers' Theater production of "A Streetcar Named Desire" directed by David Cromer takes you within a millimeter or two of this carnal knowledge.

One reason for this is that the land along the East Coast is slowly sinking (by a millimeter or two each year), a legacy of the ice sheet that covered much of North America until about 12,000 years ago.

For a portable light source, she foresees a luminous sheet, just a millimeter or two thick, coiled in the tube of a pen and ready to be unfurled for use as a flashlight.

Alas, while a touch screen might have required an extra millimeter or two, it would have made the phone much easier to use.

All means did not deviate more than a tenth of a millimeter or degree from zero indicating a high level of methodological accuracy.

Meanwhile, Officine Panerai, of Florence, is honoring its association with a former fellow citizen, Galileo Galilei, in its Luminor 1950 Equation of Time Tourbillon Titanio, a giant of a watch with a face measuring 50 millimeters, or two inches wide.

The new 10-franc coin had a circumference of 21 millimeters, or eight-tenths of an inch, while the half-franc coin had a circumference of 19.5 millimeters, or seven and a half-tenths of an inch.

They are smaller than most of their counterparts, usually reaching lengths of only seven millimeters or one sixteenth of an inch.