Sentence examples for millimetres at a from inspiring English sources

Underneath the landscape of GCSE and A-level the tectonic plates of KS3 are starting to move, sometimes imperceptibly, millimetres at a time, and sometimes with the potential for an earth-shattering jolt.

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.

This has created a large public discussion about design changes that often just shifts things along, quite literally, by a few millimetres at a time.

That tortoise has been making his way across my lawn for years now, one millimetre at a time.

As in real life, the gentle but relentless pressure of the root's growth should be enough to make it advance through the soil, fractions of a millimetre at a time.

He had, briefly, an interesting take on how national geology affected national psychology, how Scottish hearts were lifting steadily but surely, one millimetre at a time, before finishing his cans at around Warrington Bank Quay, calling us all bastards and falling asleep.

What is this about painting your lips one gosh darn millimetre at a time?

Try one millimetre at a time.

This is achieved by moving the saddle in the opposite direction to the headstock, one millimetre at a time.

A red helium-neon laser emits from a one-millimetre aperture at a wavelength of 0.633 micrometre, generating a beam that diverges at an angle of about 0.057 degree, or one milliradian.

The belt tapered to a thickness of 170 millimetres at its bottom edge amidships and presumably tapered proportionally along its length.