Sentence examples for millimetre in height from inspiring English sources
In the gymnolaemate genus Monobryozoon, which lives between marine sand particles, a colony consists of little more than a single feeding zooid less than one millimetre in height.
The atmosphere exerts a pressure proportional to the weight of a column of air above the surface of the Earth extending to the limit of the atmosphere: atmospheric pressure at sea level is on average sufficient to support a column of mercury 760 millimetres in height (abbreviated as 760 mm Hg the latter being the chemical symbol for mercury).
The simple form echoes that of the sporophyte of mosses, and it has been shown that Rhynia had an alternation of generations, with a corresponding gametophyte in the form of crowded tufts of diminutive stems only a few millimetres in height.
An average decrease of one millimetre in the height of each disk would mean an overall shortening of 2.3 centimetres, or about an inch.
Mt. Everest, for example, is actually only one-seventh of 1 percent of the Earth's radius in height, or only one-third of an inch (about eight millimetres) at a scale of 1 1,000,000.
Plants range in size from diminutive duckweeds only a few millimetres in length to the giant sequoias of California that reach 90 metres (300 feet) or more in height.
"Especially in height and length.
Height was measured to the nearest millimetre (Leicester height measure, Chasmors Ltd ,Leicester, UK).
