"centimetres long" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
For example: "This pencil is 15 centimetres long."
"Their willies are 10 centimetres long".
Most are a few centimetres long and many are colourful.
Open out the bread and tear into pieces (about 2 centimetres long).
Nerve cells, though, are huge, and consist mainly of filaments that can be many centimetres long.
It is a reddish or brownish fish and grows to about 60 centimetres long.
Commonly called the mud snapper, this device is approximately 28 centimetres long and weighs 1.4 kilograms.
The largest tracheids are several centimetres long, but most are much smaller.
The tail has a white tip and is about forty or fifty centimetres long.
It was 95 inches (241 centimetres) long, with a 65-in.
Currently, this technology can produce small strips of muscle, a couple of centimetres long and a few millimetres thick.
They are known from fossils, only a few centimetres long, dug up in China, Estonia and Orkney in Scotland.
