Sentence examples for by centimetres from inspiring English sources

Zaheer's throw missed by centimetres as a desperate Ponting dived for the crease.

The Norwegian held off Cavendish in their sprint to the line, clinging on by centimetres to claim victory.

"The measured height has changed by centimetres, but those centimetres mean we now need to round up rather than down.

On another occasion, Miller avoided colliding with a hangar by centimetres.

Trying to lift off again, only one engine responded and the unequal power supply caused the plane to swerve, missing the hangar by centimetres.

"I inched forward centimetre by centimetre.

Instead Key flailed all round the paddock and was forced to retreat centimetre by centimetre".

Yet she forced herself to override her instincts and relaxed her shoulders to utilise her arms to greater effect and centimetre by centimetre she edged in front.

The Ukrainian could have smashed it out of sight but, with a bonus payment for each new mark, naturally preferred to do it centimetre by centimetre.

And she is, centimetre by centimetre, catching up with the Hungarians," they said as Fischer used every ounce of her strength, determination and experience in an attempt to overhaul the world champions.

He and a graduate student named Heidi Cullen developed a highly sensitive test to detect dolomite, and then Cullen assayed, centimetre by centimetre, a sediment core that had been extracted near where the Gulf of Oman meets the Arabian Sea.