Most are vase-shaped creatures only several millimeters long.
Nannarrup hoffmani is 10.3 millimeters long, or about four-tenths of an inch.
Had they been from a PKC machine gun, another common Iraqi weapon, they would have been 54 millimeters long.
Had the 7.62-millimeter casings been from an AK-47 rifle, a common insurgent and Iraqi police weapon, they would have been 39 millimeters long.
The current prototype lens is a sealed transparent tube just 3 millimeters (about one-eighth of an inch) in diameter and 2.2 millimeters long.
For instance, the imitation of a larval mayfly of this group that I have in my fly box is 5 millimeters long, just a quarter of an inch.
Thousands of cut and clipped ends, mere millimeters long, manage to find their way into eyes, onto skin and down shirts.
Related to sea urchins, a live sand dollar has a velvetlike coat that is actually thousands of tiny spines, only one to five millimeters long.
Instead, the official said, the casings were 51 millimeters long, the length used by NATO weapons, including the M-240 machine gun, a standard automatic weapon used by the America military and American security contractors, the official said.
Here we encountered astonishingly beautiful orchids such as the species of Dracula, Masdevallia, or the minute and complex Lepanthes calodictyon with only one leaf the size of a dollar coin and flowers about 2 millimeters long.
No scale bar, skull about 200 millimeters long.
