Sentences with phrase «just centimetres»

Slide past sheer cliffs with just centimetres to spare and then race to the base of the Huka Falls or the famous Fuljames Rapids.

This means that those inside the cage are able to have a very intimate, close encounter with the shark as it swims just centimetres away.

The fun is short - lived when a freak of nature pulls the brothers through the magnifying glass and deposits them in the world of the ants the brothers are just centimetres tall!

As we reach the bottom and the trains rattle past, just centimetres away, I feel a pang of guilt.

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

However, if his header had gone just a centimetre another way, then Ancelotti would have been sacked.

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

«They do this by monitoring the sounds of animals on the reef, most of which are predators to something just a centimetre in length.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

THERE is more to big and tall sizes than just increasing thenumbers of X's on a shirt or centimetres on the waist, says Kingsize Menswear director Cameron Blair.

And I do love how we didn't even try to stop it, instead just watching to see if it really had the guts to come within centimetres of my hand to grab the cake!

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.

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.

World indoor champion Yamile Aldama withdrew from the triple jump earlier in the week, leaving Laura Samuel to successfully defend her title with a leap of 13.73 m, just two centimetres shy of her PB.

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.

That mark is just one centimetre off the leap Rutherford recorded to win the IAAF world title in Beijing in August.

Their densities increased from a single worm to 10,000 worms per cubic centimetre in just 10 days (Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, doi.org/bvwq).

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

Deep space can be near empty, perhaps containing just one atom per cubic centimetre, so vast sails would be needed to make this work.

Body length, not including the tail, ranges from a maximum of just 28 centimetres on the smallest island, Genovesa, to 59 centimetres on the largest, Isabela.

IMAGINE drilling into a cylinder just 18 centimetres wide and 5500 metres below the sea floor.

An increase in sea level of between just 5 and 10 centimetres could make devastating weather events come every 25 years rather than every 50 years

This sends the spores 10 centimetres away, compared with just 3 millimetres if each cell ejects alone (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, DOI: 10.1073 / pnas.1003577107).

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

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

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

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

At a distance of 30 centimetres, Katabi's prototype can charge an iPhone 4s battery from dead to full in just under 5 hours.

«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.»

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

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.

One just 1 centimetre across could disable a spacecraft.

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.

«A piece of space junk just 10 centimetres across could catastrophically damage a typical satellite»

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.

«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.»

In 2012, Wagga was hit with a flood that peaked at 10.8 metres, just 20 centimetres from the top of the levy.

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.

The display is 5 centimetres square and has 40 000 pixels, which require just 20 connections at the edge.

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

But the process has enabled the company to produce a screen that can be rolled into a tube just two centimetres in diameter — the most flexible electronic display ever made.

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.

A conventional wall would therefore have to be almost two metres deep in order to insulate as well as an aerobricks wall of just 20 centimetres in depth.

Given that the So'a hominins were already hobbit - sized 700,000 years ago, and that H. erectus didn't arrive on neighbouring islands until about 1.2 million years ago, the hominins would have had only a few 100,000 years to shrink perhaps 70 centimetres to just 1 metre tall, and shed about half their adult brain volume.

Another shortlisted image captures a juvenile octopus just 2 centimetres wide, internal organs visible through its transparent body.

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.

The animal was presumably light enough to fly — the best - preserved skeleton is just 77 centimetres from the nose to the tip of the long tail.