Sentence examples for millimeters a from inspiring English sources
The mean precipitation is 997.3 millimeters a year (39 inches); annual values can range from 800 to 1,500 millimeters (32 in to 59 in).
In addition, the ship's wooden hull is shifting a few millimeters a year and is slowly warping.
Californias creep down the line by millimeters a day, five days a week, at a pace that will churn out 3,000 a year.
Since 1993, when he began mapping the oceans using satellite technology, sea levels have risen an average of 3.3 millimeters a year.
If sea level rises at a rate of seven millimeters a year or about two feet per century, "it is likely that some barrier islands in this region will cross a threshold," and begin to break up, the report said.
Also, changes will probably occur slowly -- sea levels rising by millimeters a year, say -- so there will be no one event to prompt people to choose a fuel-saving hybrid car over a gas-guzzling S.U.V.
During the period from December 12 to December 18 , 2006 the baseline length increased by a few millimeters, an extension of about 100 nstrain.
That's less than the 1.5-millimeters-a-year rate calculated in 2011 and cited in the latest report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Keep cutting about a millimeter to a centimeter at a time, very slowly, until your plants reach the desired length.
The ASIC realizes a chip-size plasma wave receiver with the size of a few millimeters × a few millimeters.
One thousandth of a millimeter is a micron, one thousandth of a micron is a nanometer...
