Sentence examples for centimetre- from inspiring English sources

A tension of about 7kg was needed to elicit a pop, during which the bones in the knuckle separated by about half a centimetre.

The chocolate felt as if it moved a centimetre or two backwards.

Actually, separating at the rate of a centimetre or so each year.

After all, he told the German tabloid Bild, the western powers had pledged that "Nato would not move a centimetre to the east".

While some notes published in his lifetime mention things that did not need to be acted upon – like using a Rembrandt as an ironing board – the notes that became available posthumously include the following: "take one cubic centimetre of tobacco smoke and paint the exterior and the interior surfaces a waterproof colour"; "trace a straight line on Rodin's The Kiss as seen from a sight".

1. Create a template On a sheet of A3 paper, draw a 26cm horizontal line near the bottom of the page with a ruler (all measurements allow for a half centimetre seam) and pencil.

Proper, rugged York-style baked ham is what you want here, gently warmed through (that is essential) and hand-cut into substantial, going-on-centimetre-thick pieces.

America's White Sands missile range in New Mexico is installing a "Non-GPS Based Positioning System", using ground-based antennae to provide centimetre-level positioning over 2,500 square miles.

Bill Filis of Intermat says that selectively applying a one-centimetre layer of heat-insulating foam can make an armoured personnel-carrier resemble a motorcycle when viewed through thermal-vision goggles.

Settle down in this citadel of high technology and enjoy the glorious 22-inch (56-centimetre) colour portal to the electronic world.

"If light is delivered from both sides of the tissue, ten-centimetre-thick tissue can potentially be imaged," he says.Bone tissue represents another obstacle to the technology, but not for the reason you might think.