Sentence examples for couple of centimeters from inspiring English sources

"Europeans search for them and jump up in the air with glee if they find one a couple of centimeters long.

And there was a soft tissue mass at the base of the neck that measured 10 centimeters in diameter and was raised a couple of centimeters.

Back in the lab, the researchers ground down the first couple of centimeters of the strange-shaped rocks 50 microns at a time, taking a picture of each newly revealed surface.

He and roboticists Markus Waibel and Dario Floreano, both from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale of Lausanne, started with real-life robots that are just a couple of centimeters high.

Yet these sperm can only swim a couple of centimeters before tuckering out, and botanists have long wondered how female plants can produce their version of seeds--sporophytes--with the closest guy 10 to 20 centimeters away.

It appears that contact with the cathode is not required for the reduction of MTT and proteins, and the reducing power spreads a couple of centimeters away from the cathode.

The post needs to be, at minimum, the length of kitty plus a couple of inches (centimeters) to accommodate her stretch.

Add water to the bowl so the pasta is a couple of inches or several centimeters deep.

Using the inside of the foot, in the middle of the shoe, catch the sack with the foot by gently lowering the foot a couple of inches (a few centimeters) in a cradling motion.

If you absolutely must bathe your hamster as a last resort, get a bowl and fill it with a couple centimeters of lukewarm water.

Leaving a couple inches (several centimeters) of wire at each end, wrap the insulated portion around the steel.