Sentence examples for centimetres 1 from inspiring English sources

All soapfishes are small, the largest attaining lengths of about 30 centimetres (1 foot).

A few species grow on roofs or in streams; G. maritima forms cushions up to four centimetres (1 1/2 inches) tall on rocks along seashores.

All of the species are small, the largest being the Pacific viperfish (C. macouni), which attains a length of 30 centimetres (1 foot).

It may reach a length of 4 centimetres (1 1/2 inches), is usually dark gray, and has a solid spiral (turbinate) shell that readily withstands the buffeting of waves.

The bell-shaped blue flower clusters of bluebell, or wild hyacinth (H. nonscriptus or Endymion nonscriptus), and Spanish bluebell (H. hispanicus) are borne on plants about 30 centimetres (1 foot) tall.

Prefabricated panels of double glazing about 2.5 centimetres (1 inch) thick were first made in the 1940s, although the insulating principle of air trapped between two layers of glass had been recognized much earlier.

Wave numbers are usually measured in units of reciprocal metres (1/m, or m-1) and reciprocal centimetres (1/cm, or cm-1).

The brown, roundish or oblong nut, usually one to four centimetres (1/2 inch to 1 1/2 inches) long, is partly or wholly enclosed in a husk.

Chatter marks are commonly 1 5 centimetres (1/2 2 inches) but may be submicroscopic or as much as 50 cm in length.

Most threadfins are 30 60 centimetres (1 2 feet) long; one species, Eleutheronema tetradactylum of India, grow to about 1.8 metres (6 feet) long.

L. terrestris grows to about 25 centimetres (10 inches).