"centimeters wide" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when describing the width of an object. For example, "The table was 30 centimeters wide."
Exports were a fantasy: the ancient looms produced only 100-centimeter linen in a world market that bought only cloth 150 centimeters wide.
Recruits with facial or neck tattoos will now qualify for service if the decorations are no larger than two centimeters wide, or about 0.8 inches.
"Everybody — right, left — everybody, is welcome to bring piece of fabric 45 centimeters wide, of any length in any language, upon which they write this letter," he said.
China announced on Wednesday that recruits with neck or face tattoos can serve in the People's Liberation Army if the decorations are no larger than two centimeters wide, or about 0.8 inches.
A reporter for Caijing, a respected Chinese news magazine, wrote online Wednesday that he had seen cracks on the dam 10 centimeters wide and that workers had already drained the water to such a degree that parts of the reservoir bottom were visible.
The researchers filled a can 50 centimeters wide and 10 centimeters deep with plastic beads measuring 2.5 millimeters in diameter.
The tiny statuette--just under 6 centimeters tall and 3.4 centimeters wide--was carved out of a single piece of mammoth ivory.
To put that in context, "it's roughly more than two centimeters wider than the new iPhone 6," Schlenker told Barcroft TV.
This work recommends the use of targets of at least 1 centimeter wide and tall in the design of software for young children.
Physicists Stuart Field of Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Franco Nori of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and colleagues revisited those early experiments by placing very thin disks, less than a centimeter wide, into beakers of glycerol solution.
It is 124 centimeter long and 110 centimeter wide.
