Sentence examples for centimeters from inspiring English sources

In all, at least 600 people have been declared dead and another 650 missing.So powerful was the quake off the coast of Japan and 24km under water that Italy's National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology said the Earth's axis shifted 25 centimeters as a result, and the US Geological Survey said the main island of Japan had shifted 2.4 meters.

If you go down just a few centimeters below the surface of Mars, you will find an environment where there isn't much free oxygen around at all, and those rocks are going to have a very different character.

Close to a billion people are infected by whipworms, which are relatively tiny about four centimeters long and disgustingly fecund.

In the eastern region, broadleaf forests receive almost 80 inches (200 centimeters) of annual rainfall and feature indigenous oaks and maples with orchids and ferns in the understory.

The blast destroyed the building housing the reactor, but not the reactor itself, which is enveloped by stainless steel 6 inches (15 centimeters) thick.

About 30 million Americans were at risk as storms that left a record 40 centimeters of snow in New Mexico over the weekend headed eastward, CNN reported.

Discovered in the caves of western Croatia the Zospeum tholussum is also a slow mover, creeping just a few centimeters each week.

He was described as being between 35 and 40 years old and about 5-foot-9 (175 centimeters).

It has been fifteen years since the last running of the Elfstedentocht, an event with rules requiring that the path, a circle of frozen canals, rivers, and lakes beginning and ending in Leeuwarden, be topped with at least fifteen centimeters of ice.

She said this because I was 9.5 centimeters dilated.

He grew his hair "two or three centimeters longer than the other kids," and left the business world to become a drummer.