Sentence examples for centimetres off from inspiring English sources

Put the cauliflower on a chopping board and cut a couple of centimetres off each side.

It is built out of composite materials and can fly up to 30 centimetres off the ground.

Our home was extremely fragile and the bricks corroded by salt – we lived by Samba beach – and if the tank had been just a few centimetres off target, it would have been goodbye forever to my family.

Moments earlier, Sabah had gone off in that direction to find us some food; when he returned, about an hour later, he said he had been driving near the palace when the bombs hit, and the concussion had made his car leap several centimetres off the road.

Due to the silks elasticity, this causes the prey to become suspended a few centimetres off the ground.

This is when she bit approximately 2.5 centimetres of his tongue off.

There were also schematic diagrams indicating what surgical alterations Deschamps-Braly needed to make: a centimetre off her chin, two millimetres off her nose.

Said skeleton bob sleigh involves lying down with your chin one centimetre off the ice and zooming down a run at up to 100 kilometres per hour.

However, it would be a centimetre off the mark to say that Flanner's "Letters from Paris" of the 1920s and 30s grant you the illusion that you were there.

"If you were to trim the top half-centimetre off that picture of Sangakkara's bat in over 109, it would look like he has been struck by lightning," notices Robin Hazlehurst.

Grabarz is just one centimetre off the world leading jump this year, and although his winning clearance of 2.28m was seven centimetres below his season's best, he will go to London as a genuine medal contender.