Sentences with phrase «centimetres long»

He has produced muscle - like strips, each 2.5 centimetres long and 0.7 centimetres wide.»

When fully assembled, the car is 25 centimetres long, 14 centimetres wide and 11 centimetres high — thereby preserving the brand's characteristic proportions.

I am 182 centimetres long and having only 56 kg weight.

The reason women are so much more prone to these infections than men is because the tube that leads to the bladder (the urethra) is really short in females — being only about four centimetres long.

The largest of the four weighs in at 45 kilograms, and its shell is more than 40 centimetres long.

Kerygmachela kierkegaardi, which lived 535 million years ago, was like a segmented worm 17.5 centimetres long.

The route along top of the kite was 14 centimetres long, while the route along the bottom was 28 centimetres long.

They include banded knifejaws and yellowtail amberjacks, up to 60 centimetres long (Science, doi.org/cdr6).

But Miguel Delibes at Doñana Biological Station in Seville, Spain, and his team suspected the goats would have trouble passing the nuts, which are about 2.2 centimetres long.

The fissure, now 50 centimetres long, appeared on 5 November as the tank was being drained of liquid hydrogen after an earlier fuel leak prevented the shuttle from launching.

The mites are only about 0.1 centimetres long, while the spider is about 5 centimetres.

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

A typical pygmy bushtit has a body about the size of your thumb, but if you include its tail, it measures a heady 8 centimetres long.

On each face of the cuboid there is a straight red line a whole number of centimetres long going from the mid-point of one edge to the mid-point of another.

The specimen was 40 centimetres long and was later named Paradoxides regina.

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.

The team unearthed a hoard of stone points, each between 4 and 9 centimetres long, that they think belonged to the earliest stone - tipped spears yet found.

Zhou's group examined 11 Jeholornis fossils with preserved tail feathers and found that four had both aerofoil - like fans up to 10 centimetres long at the base of their tail and frond - like tufts of feathers at the tips.

The scale is different, though: Myrmeleon crudelis is only about 2 centimetres long.

Could this tiny animal, with a body just seven centimetres long, be the ancestor of all living primates — including humans?

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

Great tinamous are brown birds with white throats and bellies, generally around 40 centimetres long.

They first cut a slot about 60 centimetres long in the middle of one girder.

Detailed amber fossils of wings from dinosaurs just 3.5 centimetres long suggest they flew like today's birds.

A laser - powered device just centimetres long can boost electrons to energies previously seen only in giant smashers.

Up popped Aspidorhynchus, a sleek fish about 60 centimetres long.

Today, the toothless, duck - billed, venomous, electric - field - sensing, egg - laying mammals grow up to 50 centimetres long and snack on shrimps, insects and worms.

These striking, tiny fish are just 2 centimetres long and rarely stray from their adopted homes - but seen up - close, they make quite an impact

SKULKING around an ancient floodplain 250 million years ago, the earliest known dinosaur ancestors left footprints just 1 to 2 centimetres long.

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.

The new animal is about 30 centimetres long, with a shell only a millimetre wide.

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.

And last one, your «mmm» should be 25 centimetres long.

Measuring just 14 centimetres long, the Lady is one of an increasing number of «purse - friendly» guns on the market, as manufacturers compete to combine fashion and firearms in an attempt to appeal to women.

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.

Hide beetles (Omorgus suberosus), each just 1 centimetre long, are eating their way through the stock of eggs and hatchlings.

«As these animals are tiny, just one centimetre long, we needed X-ray images of the soft tissue and the bony parts with micrometric resolution to determine which body parts contribute to sound propagation.»

The best shot, by a 4 - centimetre long...

The researchers fixed a three centimetre long diamond strip, just 0.3 millimetre thick, in a specimen holder and triggered a shock wave with a brief flash from a powerful infrared laser that hit the narrow edge of the diamond; this pulse lasted 0.15 billionths of a second (150 picoseconds) and reached a power level of up to 12 trillion watts (12 terawatts) per square centimetre.

At just 1 centimetre long, it ties with a Brazilian frog as the world's tiniest tetrapod — a group that includes all vertebrates apart from fish.

On the outside, the Regal TourX is 8.6 centimetres longer and 1.5 centimetres taller than the Sportback.

With a length of 4.23 metres, the Ibiza ST is no less than 18 centimetres longer than the Ibiza.

26 centimetres longer and just under 17 centimetres wider than the current MINI Clubman, the MINI Clubman Concept applies this aspiration to a new class of automobile.

The all - new MINI Countryman is the roomiest and the most spacious MINI yet, extending 20 centimetres longer and 3 centimetres wider than its predecessor.

The A-Class L sedan features a six centimetres longer wheelbase (2789 instead of 2729 mm) and is a variant developed solely for the Chinese market.

The new Altea XL is 18.7 centimetres longer than the Altea.

The SEAT Altea XL measures 18.7 centimetres longer than the Altea, resulting in superior interior comfort and a larger boot capacity.

If the bleeding has stopped, gently examine the cut and if it is more than about 1 centimetre long it may heal better with treatment from a doctor.

Clean the joint with a brush and wrap it with a length of repair tape that's a few centimetres longer than the width of the downpipe.