Sentences with phrase «centimetres for»

Not exact matches

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.

Nearly six metres long but just 127 centimetres tall the four - door hybrid convertible looked an enormous glistening brick, or a sci - fi ride for a 22nd - century Cruella de Vil.

For the past week, workers on cranes have been laying the roughly 28 - centimetre - square tiles, each of which corresponds to one very big pixel, on the tower.

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.

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.

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.

Sandra Perkovic got the discus meeting record she had been eyeing, the world and Olympic champion's world - leading 70.52 m also an outright Diamond League record as well as a Croatian record to add one centimetre to the mark she managed in March which was the first 70.00m - plus throw for 15 years.

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.

With an excess of thick, wiry hair and a beard line that seems to stop mere centimetres below his eyesockets, Marouane Fellaini has never been the easiest chap to look at for long periods of time.

The Grow and Go is also a few centimetres shorter which allowed us to use the seat for our 2 month old baby in the rear - facing position.

Once the parasite has entered the human body through the skin, the centimetre - long worm takes up residence in the blood vessels surrounding the bladder and intestine for years.

Lars Peter Nielsen and his colleagues at Aarhus University in Denmark have found that tens of thousands of electric bacteria can join together to form daisy chains that carry electrons over several centimetres — a huge distance for a bacterium only 3 or 4 micrometres long.

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).

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.

No more than 5 centimetres long, it tends to make its home in cool and dry places under branches or other bits of wood, in temperatures that often dip below freezing for hours or days.

Kenshu Shimada of DePaul University in Chicago was searching for specimens of fish teeth when he discovered one nearly 12 centimetres across.

For instance, in one trial it appeared that the patients from one country were all dwarfs, until it was realised that the height data had been recorded in inches rather than centimetres.

Interference, or «radio noise», even occurs at the wavelength of the famous 21 - centimetre atomic hydrogen line, which many SETI researchers believe another intelligence would logically chose for communication — if such intelligence existed (see «SETI: the search continues», New Scientist, 10 October).

A tsunami warning for the Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu was cancelled after only very small tsunami wave activity, just a couple of centimetres, had been measured at two reading stations near the epicentre, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said.

To hear Auditioner, listeners put their chins on a small platform between two speakers about 50 centimetres apart, doing away with the need for headphones.

«There are only 1000 tiny cells in 1 cubic centimetre of sediment, so finding just one is literally like hunting for a needle in a haystack.»

Doug Coenen, general manager of Columbia Ridge, says the arid location of his dump, which receives 23 centimetres of rain a year, is ideal for a dry dump.

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

There is not enough radioactivity in the core to account for this, so scientists now speculate that the planet may either be shrinking at the rate of a few centimetres a year, or that the vast quantities of helium in the atmosphere are separating out from the hydrogen and slowly sinking.

At 38 centimetres long it is large for a pigeon, and its feathers are a predictable colour.

The exterior walls are made of 50 - centimetre - thick reinforced concrete, while utility spaces on the bottom floor are compartmentalised in a radial formation for even stress distribution — rather like the spokes in a bicycle wheel.

Every centimetre matters for cute little dwarf mongooses: if they get their bottoms high in the air, other mongooses might take them seriously

Next, they measured how far the vibrations from one termite travelled, and found that after 40 centimetres the ground no longer moved enough for other termites to pick up the signal.

Colugos are the largest of the gliding mammals, and with an arm span of 70 centimetres, this makes for impressive «wings».

The smallest details will be considered: if one of the lander's feet settles on a stone just 30 centimetres high, for example, it could tip over.

A 1 - centimetre - thick part made by the CVI process would have to be heated to temperatures approaching 1000 degreeC for two months.

For objects bigger than 1 centimetre, the estimates are frightening: there are anything from hundreds of thousands to millions of them, mostly in unknown orbits and each capable of smashing a satellite to smithereens.

The snow warning issued on 3 March 2011 by the State Meteorological Agency in Spain (AEMET) warned of drifts of up to 18 centimetres in mountainous areas of Madrid and three centimetres in urban areas of the province for the following day.

The primary mirror in the system proposed for Spain is 63.5 centimetres across, a quarter the diameter of Hubble's mirror.

They soaked 1 - centimetre sections of the tentacles in the test liquid for a minute and placed them on the forearm of a blindfolded observer.

To test this, he trained three male nectar - feeding bats (Glossophaga soricina) to search for a feeder 2.5 centimetres wide — roughly the same size as a single nectary — in a chamber filled with artificial foliage.

«We're talking about the potential for centimetres per year just from [ice loss in] Antarctica.»

Kooteninchela deppi was approximately four centimetres long with an elongated trunk for a body and millipede - like legs, which it used to scuttle along the sea floor with the occasional short swim.

The processes that convert these tiny grains, each a few millionths of a metre (a micron) across, into aggregates a few centimetres in size, and the mechanism for making kilometre - sized «planetesimals» into planetary cores, are both well understood.

By 2150, sea levels would be as much as 17 centimetres lower for a rise of 1.5 °C, compared with 2 °C.

Sweat alone has been used to power a radio for two days, thanks to a flexible patch measuring just a couple of centimetres.

For now, Smalley's team can only make simple outlines about a centimetre across — the particle can't move fast enough to trick our eyes into seeing a persistent image larger than that.

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics and the Humboldt University, both in Berlin, have used underwater electrical discharges to generate luminous plasma clouds resembling ball lightning that last for nearly half a second and are up to 20 centimetres across.

Team member Sushma Acharya used a 2 - centimetre square piece of the material to power a 2 - volt fan for a few minutes.

For example, Jupiter's moon Io, whose density is 3.5 grams per cubic centimetre, is all rock, whereas some of Saturn's moons, whose densities are 1.2 grams per cubic centimetre, are nearly pure water ice.

But a surface can also have a strong effect on a semiconductor, and as porous silicon has an enormous surface area — between 200 and 1000 square metres for each cubic centimetre of the material — many researchers believe a second theory: that the surface is responsible for efficient luminescence.

The first step is to make double - sided discs 13 centimetres in diameter — the same size as the magneto - optical discs now made for the computer industry.

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.

If these trends continue for 10 generations, Stearns calculates, the average woman in 2409 will be 2 centimetres shorter and 1 kilogram heavier than she is today.

The radio telescopes operated continuously at a wavelength of 10.7 centimetres, which is an ideal wavelength for monitoring solar activity due to the Sun's particular chemical composition.