Sentences with phrase «few centimetres»

Since soil temperature at such sites increases with depth, even these heat - tolerant species are restricted to the top few centimetres of soil.

For NFC to work your mobile phone should come embedded with the NFC chip using which the handset can send data within short range (just few centimetres).

Give your potted plants and containers an extra boost by removing the top few centimetres of existing soil and adding your freshly made compost.

Oxygen levels stayed high from September 2014 to March 2015, even while the comet's upper few centimetres hissed away into space.

Not only will tactile design elements like foiling and embossing be lost, but design that looks incredible at 9» x 6» will be crunched and squashed down to a measly few centimetres.

Organic matter in the uppermost few centimetres of sediments is first attacked by aerobic bacteria, generating CO2, which escapes from the sediments into the water column.

That said, the WattUp charger currently needs to be within a few centimetres of a device in order to work properly, but the company is working to expand the distance to 15 feet.

Put half of your frosting on top of one of your cakes and gently spread it out over the sponge but keep it a few centimetres from the edges and then sandwich it together with the other half.

Spread fillings evenly over the top, stopping a few centimetres from each edge.

First, to make cauliflower puree, pour a few centimetres (about an inch) of water into pot.

Both men and women compete over 4000 metres in this technically exacting discipline, which sees teams ride in formation often just a few centimetres apart.

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.

A few centimetres here and there make a huge difference in the backseat!»

So the team suggests that a layer of volcanic ash, perhaps a few centimetres thick, may protect the structures.

Rising magma in Earth's mantle is thought to ascend at just a few centimetres per year.

When the rover zoomed in, it saw rounded pebbles in the conglomerates and in surrounding gravel that were fairly large — up to a few centimetres in diameter.

Some rangeomorphs were only a few centimetres in height, while others were up to two metres tall.

This way these small organisms (between a few millimetres and a few centimetres in size) help return the organic material stored in bones to the ecosystem.

Just a few centimetres can be enough in places to decide whether a protective wall and the built - up area located behind it are flooded or not.

When completed, it will generate a huge number of three - dimensional coordinates, accurate to a few centimetres, that should fit on a standard CD - ROM.

For the smallest wind - whipped waves — ripples no larger than a few centimetres high — factors such as viscosity and surface tension determine their shape and size.

The bodies of these tadpole - like creatures are just a few centimetres long, but the mucus «houses» they secrete can be a metre across.

Living deep in the North Atlantic and the frigid surface waters of the Arctic, Greenland sharks have a stable environment and grow just a few centimetres per year.

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.

This is the first time anybody has used the technique, known as quantum cryptography, over distances greater than a few centimetres.

«If you can track the vehicle's position to within a few centimetres then you can use that technology to run the vehicle autonomously.»

If you only have a few centimetres to play with, it can be quite tense.

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.

The team will switch drill bits from the large one that takes ice cores as it goes to a smaller one only a few centimetres in diameter, which will melt its way down using a sterile silicone fluid.

The preliminary findings of two groups of American researchers suggest that digital cellphones can cause interference during normal use if they are held within a few centimetres of a pacemaker.

The two species of marine worm, Cricocosmia jinningensis and Mafangscolex sinensi, were typically a few centimetres long.

Anthroturbation commonly extends to several kilometres depth, as compared to the few centimetres or metres that non-human organisms achieve.

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

If you eat 14 g goji berries every day for six weeks your waist measurement will decrease by a few centimetres.

A few centimetres are surely lost, but there's at least 175 more to choose from!

:: let the kids know they need to keep their creations a few centimetres from the edge of the fabric to allow for your seam allowance when you are ready to sew your cushion cover together;

These summer wedge espadrilles can add a touch of style and lightness to an outfit and a few centimetres to height Size: 6.

So it looks like Konami diverted the gun muzzle from Snake's mouth to a few centimetres past his cheek.

Getting into and out of the middle - row seats is easy thanks to the big rear doors, and once inside there's a few centimetres more leg room compared to a BMW X5 or Range Rover Sport.

Porsche spokespersons told assembled journalists the Panamera was loaded into a goods lift, with only a few centimetres spare on either side.

If anything, the front seats need another few centimetres of lower adjustment.

We'd avoid the panoramic sunroof if you plan on carrying taller passengers often, as it cuts into headroom by a few centimetres.

The outward appearance of a Bentley T is slightly more dynamic because the bonnet design is a few centimetres lower and the radiator shell shape with its rounded edges is smoother.

He shook his head and, as if to emphasize his words, pushed his empty cup and saucer a few centimetres across the table.

If you have a wire cage and want to avoid your floor getting too messy from the flying substrate, cut down a cardboard box, which the cage can comfortably sit in (with a few centimetres of clearance around the sides), so that it's sides are not higher than 10 cm, and place it in that.

At some of the muck dive sites it can be very low but, when the subjects you are viewing are only a few centimetres in front of your mask, that shouldn't be a problem.

The centrepiece of the exhibition, though, is an untitled work from 2014: a mannequin, suspended from the ceiling, its feet dangling a few centimetres above the ground.

Asta (Pole)(1965 - 2001) is a metal pole that hangs from the ceiling, falling short of the floor by a few centimetres.

Just a few centimetres in diameter, the fragments that compromise «Darra» (atom) are everyday materials, as simple as chocolate wrappers, pieces of worn blankets, and scraps of electric cable.