Sentences with phrase «centimetres by»

Modelling from the Met Office in a 2012 report for the Environment Agency suggests that climate change could raise sea levels in the area between 20 and 90 centimetres by the end of the century, and warns that eventual sea level rise could be much higher if greenhouse gas emissions are not cut.

However, the Louis that Brummel wanted, a majestic «veil» painting from 1958, was, at 240 centimetres by 430, simply too big to position adequately with the others.

Strangely, though, there are two tunnels, about 20 centimetres by 20 centimetres, that extend from the north and south walls of the Queen's Chamber and stop at stone doors before they reach the outside of the pyramid (see diagram).

Joe gave Penny a rectangular piece of card 12 centimetres by 8 centimetres with the instruction that she had to draw two intersecting straight lines across the card from adjacent corners.

Not exact matches

Product dimensions would be in inches, not centimetres or entered in the wrong order: width by height by length, instead of, say, length by width by height.

A block further you'll even find someone who fell for the Mini Coupé — wherein BMW gave the finger to all those Mini purists clamouring for an authentically tiny Mini (the BMW is about 70 centimetres longer and 30 centimetres wider than the Morris models), by shrinking the interior but keeping the same exterior dimensions.

Because the wound kept getting re-infected the surgeons nearly had to amputate his foot completely but saved it by removing 8 centimetres of his tendon and grafted a patch of skin from his arm to cover the scars.

Ukraine came within centimetres of levelling, but an incredible goal - line clearance by Jerome Boateng prevented Yevhen Konoplyanka's header hitting the net.

Also out in the field and New Zealand's shot put star Valerie Adams extended her unbeaten streak to 55 competitions, her first throw of 19.96 m her best to claim victory ahead of Germany's Christina Schwanitz, while Olympic triple jump champion Christian Taylor leapt his best in the final round of the long jump to move from fifth to first and beat Commonwealth silver medallist Zarck Visser of South Africa by just one centimetre — 8.09 m to 8.08 m. Britain's Greg Rutherford — gold medallist ahead of Visser in Glasgow — leapt a best of 8.04 m for fourth as just eight centimetres separated the top five.

I said before the match that we would try to organise everything but still we missed by centimetres.

Having bounced back from two no - heights in Ostrava and Braunschweig to win the British title last weekend, Steve Lewis again failed to register a height having entered the competition at 5.45 m. Lesueur's personal best of 6.92 m in the third round of the long jump competition secured her the win ahead of world and Olympic champion Brittney Reese with 6.87 m as Britain's Shara Proctor leapt 6.70 m for fourth, while Compaoré won the triple jump, beating Olympic champion Christan Taylor by one centimetre with 17.12 m.

He revealed earlier this month a gangrene infection had «eaten» eight centimetres of his Achilles tendon and said he had been told by doctors he should be «satisfied» just to be able to walk again.

Then to boot, when I was next checked I had gone backwards in dilation by multiple centimetres.

The well - preserved fossil is 106 centimetres long and 77 centimetres wide, and is thought to have been made by a titanosaur — a long - necked herbivore that may have been 20 metres tall.

With bee populations tumbling, an autonomous drone just 4 centimetres wide could help pollinate crops by flying from flower to flower

I was interacting with SociBot - Mini, a 60 - centimetre - high robot built by Will Jackson and his colleagues at Engineered Arts in Penryn, UK.

Spatial discrimination fell by 0.25 millimetres for every square - centimetre increase in finger area (The Journal of Neuroscience, DOI: 10.1523 / jneurosci.3684 - 09.2009).

Hip and waist circumference also went down by an average of 1.7 and 1.5 centimetres respectively (European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, DOI: 10.1038 / ejcn.2010.19).

In nine drives between 15 January and 8 February, mission members coaxed the rover into driving backwards by 34 centimetres — «pretty good for a lander», Arvidson said.

Travelling just a centimetre horizontally is enough to allow it to be carried away by the breeze, instead of dropping back down close by.

Raising one clock by just 33 centimetres made it run slightly faster — by 4 parts in 100 million billion — than a fixed reference clock.

Mexico's capital is built on a dried - out lake, and every year the city sinks by tens of centimetres as water is extracted from aquifers beneath it.

The magnitude 9.0 earthquake wrenched the main island of Honshu 2.5 metres closer to the US and nudged the tilt of Earth's axis by 16 centimetres.

When a field party led by John Reid of Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, visited the Racetrack in 1991, a melting snowfall had left 5 centimetres of water covering the lake bed.

Made by Shuhei Miyashita and colleagues at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a 1.7 - centimetre - long origami robot made of plastic and containing a magnet can be «programmed» by an external magnetic field.

The glacier ice found by the team, which came from a layer that began just 50 centimetres below the surface, was dated by analysing the relative abundances of isotopes of argon in a thin layer of overlying volcanic ash.

As well as raising IQ by 1.29, it increases the overall volume of the brain — but only by 0.58 per cent of average brain size, adding around 9 cubic centimetres of tissue.

The object, a metallic ball of about 13 by 18 centimetres, was initially thought to be part of a rocket or a satellite that had survived re-entry into the atmosphere.

In preliminary results from a study funded by Genentech on 36 healthy children, growth hormone is shown to add 4 centimetres to the final height of boys and 8.1 centimetres to the height of girls.

He quoted a 1980 estimate by «experts» of 8 metres, the «best guess» of the IPCC, made in 1990, of 65 centimetres and a current «authoritative estimate» of 20 cm.

The GPS measurements show that the crater is inflating by about 2.5 centimetres each year.

Archival tags, which measure about 5 by 2.5 centimetres, were placed in the abdominal cavities of the fish, along with a dose of antibiotic.

The researchers are initially aiming to achieve an area of ten by ten square centimetres.

• In our article on disrupting the blood - brain barrier, the area stimulated by ultrasound measured 1 by 5 centimetres (22 October, p 14).

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).

• In our article on disrupting the blood - brain barrier, the area stimulated by ultrasound measured 1 by 5 centimetres (22...

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But 30 dams on the Guadalquivir, with a total capacity of more than 4 cubic kilometres of water, plus local irrigation schemes, have caused water tables in the wetland to fall by up to 50 centimetres a year.

The point of intersection had to be such that by cutting along two of the lines from the intersection point to the edge of the card, a piece of card with an area equal to any multiple (from 1 to 6) of 8 square centimetres could be produced.

Two are sticking above the tiles, one by 2.8 centimetres (1.1 inches) and the other by as much as 2.2 cm (0.9 inches) near the front of the orbiter.

Astronomers often search for gas by observing neutral hydrogen, which broadcasts radio waves at a wavelength of 21 centimetres.

First, he created 20 - centimetre - long flexible ribbons made of a piezoelectric polymer that generates electrical currents when perturbed, either by wind or when rain drops fall on it.

Such radiowaves would be produced by rocks of about a centimetre in size, suggesting this is a band of pebbles which will, sometime in the next few million years, coalesce into a planet.

The approximately 140 - centimetre - long snake snatched the bat by the head and immediately brought it down to the floor.

Barents» group measured the cold by the thickness of the ice inside the house walls — it reached a maximum of 5 centimetres.

The chamber is 30 centimetres thick and made of metal covered by a layer of concrete laced with boron to absorb the neutrons.

The project, conducted by the Australian Geological Survey Organisation and the Indonesian Geological Research and Development Centre (GRDC), has charted about 380 000 square kilometres of rugged terrain in Irian Jaya and central Kalimantan at a scale of 1:250 000 (1 centimetre to 2.5 kilometres).

Discovered in northern China and acquired recently by palaeontologists from a Chinese fossil dealer, it is about 50 centimetres long and lived 160 million years ago, a few million years before Archaeopteryx graced the skies.

Infrared is absorbed by less than a millimetre of tissue but microwaves penetrate about five centimetres, indicating the temperature of most of the body's interior.

By BARRY FOX Later this year, a modified CD player, connected to a TV set, will deliver up to 74 minutes of moving video pictures from a 12 - centimetre disc that looks just like a conventional audio CD.