Sentence examples for metric units from inspiring English sources

A Select Committee report of 1862 recommended compulsory metrication, but with an "Intermediate permissive phase", Parliament responded in 1864 by legalising metric units only for 'contracts and dealings'.

(Provide dimensions in both English and metric units).

Data are in US dollars and quantities in metric units.

The defective area was calculated in metric units.

(Estimate, if needed, and provide in both English and metric units).

The display can be set for feet and inches, decimal feet or metric units.

As it builds from simple to complex, you hear metric units within metric units, and then, dizzyingly, yet faster units within those smaller ones.

Values in knots or feet units are converted into metric units.

Weight standards in other countries vary, but most are measured in metric units.

This rule applies even in the United States, where the government has been quietly using metric units since 1893.

Only then did NASA uncover the latent error programmers had used English rather than metric units in their software coding.