Sentences with phrase «centimetre off»

That mark is just one centimetre off the leap Rutherford recorded to win the IAAF world title in Beijing in August.

Two - time Olympic gold medallist Valerie Adams was just a single centimetre off her own shot put meeting record from 2014 as she threw 19.68 m in the fifth round for victory.

On day one, she was three hundredths of a second off her PB in the 100m hurdles with 13.47, six centimetres off in the high jump with 1.90 m and then struggled in the shot, her weakest event, with 12.17 m.

Seven standard crates of bottled drinks or three golf bags, for example, can be loaded in over the boot sill (just 62 centimetres off the ground), which is protected by a stainless steel strip.

For example, one dietician noted of her client that... her actual measurements have changed, like centimetres off her hips and waist have been really good» (Jane, Dietician).

Not exact matches

Using a serrated knife, chop the top half centimetre (5th inch) off each clove.

Roma came within centimetres of striking a huge blow in the race for the Champions League after bashing the woodwork twice in Sunday night's Rome derby, with Edin Dzeko cursing his luck as his injury - time header thumped off the bar just as the Curva Sud was preparing itself for another night of wild celebrations following Tuesday night's Barca battering.

Data received before the cut - off suggests the drill had reached 25 centimetres below the spacecraft, but with Philae standing in a precarious position, with one leg in the air, the drill may not make it to the surface to take a sample.

The team concludes that the break happened when the animal dropped 85 centimetres, perhaps by falling off a rock or a log in the temperate forests that covered parts of Australia at the time (PLoS One, doi.org/4qg).

The Delhi Sands flower - loving fly is 2.5 centimetres long, lives in sand and feeds off flowers, hovering above them like a hummingbird.

Of the hundreds of thousands of pieces of space junk in Earth's orbit, more than 20,000 are larger than 10 centimetres across — big enough to smash a piece off a satellite and create even more orbiting junk.

Nicolaas Michiels and Leslie Newman of the Max Planck Institute for Behavioural Physiology in Seewiesen stumbled upon the 6 - centimetre worm in the sea off Heron Island at the southern end of Australia's Great Barrier Reef.

Your clothes may feel a little looser, a few centimetres have come off and those dreaded scales have shifted ever so slightly.

With a jewellery wire cutter, cut off pieces of about 1,5 centimetres.

The 17 - inch wheels are wrapped in meatier 33 - inch off - road tires, and the standard air suspension sits around two centimetres taller than normal.

Scientists who made coring tests off Barrow in Alaska — which recorded the earliest ever spring melt in 78 years of record - keeping − report that where they would have expected thicknesses of up to 150 centimetres, they were recording depths of only 80 to 100 cm.