Sentences with phrase «few centimetres of»

Young children can drown in only a few centimetres of water.

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.

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.

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.

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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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

The patent - pending technology, which uses detectors at the heart of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN alongside world - first radiation - hard CMOS imagers, will reduce dose uncertainties from several centimetres to just a few millimetres.

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 pillars are only a few tens of nanometres apart, which lets the team cram tens of thousands of spots of colour across every centimetre of the surface.

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

A unique feature of SHRIMP is its7 - tonne magnet with a turning radius of one metre; other machines use magnets weighing only a few kilograms, with a turning radius of about 30 centimetres.

Detailed radio maps of nearby molecular clouds reveal that they are clumpy, with regions containing a wide range of densities — from a few tens of molecules (mostly hydrogen) per cubic centimetre to more than one million.

:: 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.

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.

The increased length serves to add a few cubic centimetres of storage to the diminutive trunk, while the increased power and weight negate one another such that the 124's power - to - weight ratio is negligibly better than the MX - 5.

The MINI Rocketman Concept measures 3.419 metres in length, adding just a few extra centimetres to the front and rear of the brand's founding father born in 1959.

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.

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.

«A few centimetres can make the difference in whether the ground slumps and becomes wetter or ends up high and dry, by separating more from the water table,» says Colleen Iversen, an ecosystem scientists at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the US and a co-author of the report.

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.