Sentences with phrase «of millimetres of»

The first couple of millimetres of pedal travel is dead but once you're into the operating range the pedal has a firmness and consistency that's better than any Elise I've tried previously and the ABS never triggers on the road.

This walking technique improved in 100 bichir fishes that Standen and her colleagues reared in a tank filled with just a couple of millimetres of water.

What this chart shows is that, on a daily basis, the solar energy absorbed into the top fraction of a millimetre of the ocean then mixes (conducts and convects) into the top 5 - 10m only, and nearly all of it stays in just the top 1m.

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EM: Just think about the little fuel tank that has the hydrogen in it, that is 2 millimetre across, about the size of a peppercorn.

I know that you need every millimetre of the denim for your tall frame.

Ponder on the effect of the water level rising at 28 millimetres per minute, for 40 days.

First came the creation of two very large steel formers, into which they hydraulically pressed the main components from more than three tonnes of six - millimetre thick copper.

The integral reject unit comprises a series of mechanical flaps across an inspection width of 580 millimetres, to minimise the loss of good material.

The entire length of ECOLINE - D could therefore be reduced to only 750 millimetres.

To address this need, Bosch Packaging Technology has designed a new version of the proven SVE 2520 DZ (Doy Zip) Vertical Form Fill and Seal (VFFS) machine, which is adaptable to larger formats, up to 320 millimetres high — the SVE 3220 DZ.

Place another piece of grease proof paper on top and, using a rolling pin, roll the pastry put until a few millimetres thick.

The driest month in terms of rainfall and rain days is January, which receives an average of 27.5 millimetres (1.08 in) over 4.6 days.

I read that the rumours suggest that Kondogbia is a millimetre away from signing with Inter Milan and the shneidelin is now of no interest to us.

Dr. Julian Bailes, head of neurosurgery at the NorthShore University Health System in Chicago, told a Toronto news conference Wednesday the human brain is tethered but floating in about seven millimetres of cerebral spinal fluid.

McLaren Fernando Alonso 8 — Stoffel Vandoorne 1 Jenson Button 1 - Stoffel Vandoorne 0 Race: Alonso Stoffel Vandoorne finally got the better of Fernando Alonso in qualifying, despite Alonso's heroics of finishing quickest in Q1 and getting across the start / finish line to beat the chequered flag by millimetres.

After a dominating spell of possession to open that latter period, van La Parra fell millimetres short of connecting with a diving header after flinging himself at Aaron Mooy's dinked cross from an acute angle inside the area.

The strength of compression is measured in millimetres of mercury (mm Hg).

First of all, the strength of compression is measured in millimetres of mercury — mm Hg.

Strength of compression is measured in mm Hg (millimetres of mercury).

The pressure of compression stockings is measured in mm Hg, or millimetres of mercury.

At the beginning of your pregnancy, your amniotic fluid will only be a few millimetres.

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The top number is systolic pressure, expressed in millimetres of mercury (mmHg).

As a result Labour is unsure whether it won three elections because it had a leader who was not on the centre - left, or whether England is now a more progressive country that is ready to hear a message a millimetre to the left of Cameron.

Their dismissive impression is formed also because the party's leadership candidates utter the occasional sentence that places them a millimetre or two to the left of David Cameron, a stance that meets with most mighty columnists» disapproval.

The implant, made of genetically engineered cells, has been designed to detect developing breast, prostate and colon cancers when they are only a few millimetres in size.

Most of this plastic disintegrates into particles smaller than five millimetres, referred to as microplastics, and breaks down further into nanoparticles, which are less than 0.1 micrometre in size.

One nanometre (nm) is one millionth of a millimetre.

New, portable high - resolution 3D scanners being developed by Axel Pinz at the Graz University of Technology in Austria will capture the pitoti down to a resolution of one - tenth of a millimetre.

The particles of rock and ice in these belts vary in size from the tiniest dust grain, smaller than a millimetre across, up to asteroid - like bodies many kilometres in diameter [2].

Made of polyimide resin, IKAROS's sail measures 20 metres from corner to corner, but is just 0.0075 millimetres thick.

Because of the underlying asymmetry, the beam bends around 5 millimetres to the right over its 60 - centimetre measured length.

But the new ALMA view of where the larger millimetre - sized dust particles were found was very different!

As van der Marel explains: «It's likely that we are looking at a kind of comet factory as the conditions are right for the particles to grow from millimetre to comet size.

Their results showed that a typical raindrop — roughly 2 millimetres wide and travelling at a few metres per second — compresses air in front of it a few microseconds before hitting a solid surface.

Satellite data shows that levels rose by an average of 3.3 millimetres per year between 1993 and 2006.

Mini-brains 3 to 4 millimetres across have been grown in the lab before, but if a larger brain had been created — and the press release publicising the claim said it was the size of a pencil eraser — that would be a major breakthrough.

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).

Donald Argus of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and colleagues used 15 years of GPS data to show that parts of the Ellsworth mountains in west Antarctica are rising by around 5 millimetres a year (Geophysical Research Letters, DOI: 10.1029 / 2011gl048025).

Measuring a few millimetres across, the pieces of intestinal tissue made by the month - long process contain all the cells and features found in normal gut tissue, and grow by the same route as in embryos.

But to my mind that is not how it has turned out — rather the reverse with a near equivalence of a modest 20,000 genes across the vast range of organismic complexity from the millimetre - long Caenorhabditis elegans to the 60 - trillion - celled Homo sapiens.

This rod - shaped bacterium, Epulopiscium fishelsoni (pictured right), lives in the gut of surgeon fish in the Red Sea and is up to 0.7 millimetres long, hundreds of times longer than the E. coli in our guts, which is around 0.002 millimetres long.

A metal box about the size of a loaf of bread, it has an 85 - millimetre - wide Zeiss camera lens peeking from one end.

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).

A blue laser makes the tiny dot visible, though it's only 215 billionths of a millimetre wide

On the scale of a few millimetres — the...

When the floodwaters evaporated, the millimetre of silt left behind became the youngest stratum in a succession of sediment layers that is today about 1.5 kilometres thick.

Closer examination of the exceptionally preserved ganglia revealed dozens of spindly fibres, each measuring about five thousandths of a millimetre in length.

The best microscopes currently available can detect light from 3 to 4 millimetres into the brain, enough to see light signals coming from the cortex of a small animal, but not enough to see deep - seated structures such as the hippocampus.

The tiny organs measure about half a millimetre in diameter, with the «hump» of the ventricle rising up from the dish.