Sentences with phrase «only centimeters»

As Laila's vivid, green eyes begin to dart around once more, searching for a non-existent escape route, the beak of the hawk is now only centimeters above, and our understanding of the film's title takes on a new and frightening meaning.

Those tests suggest that at a range of 500 meters, the MIT system should still achieve a depth resolution of only a centimeter.

These discrepancies are usually small — only a centimeter or two — but they can translate into huge differences in natural strength.

Indeed it hardly matters whether there's half a meter or only a centimeter of wrongly placed water in a home; it turns out that any interior flooding of whatever amount effectively makes a house useless for its intended purpose.

Not exact matches

Topher the moon is only moving away at a few centimeters a year (I think it is around 3.7 cm per year), and it is known that it is currently moving away faster than it was in the past.

I felt the labor pains come on, went to the hospital, was told I was only 3 centimeters dialated and that I was probably just wishfully thinking she was coming.

After 4 hours of contractions, painful and getting more painful, the mother was only dilated to 2 centimeters.

Two and a half hours after starting Pitocin, Cheryl is only 3 centimeters dilated, so her doctor decides it's time to break her water to speed things up.

Cheryl is receiving Pitocin today since she's only 2 centimeters dilated, her water hasn't broken, and her contractions haven't begun.

If she's dilated to only 1 centimeter, chances are they'll send you home or tell her to go for a walk until it's clear she's in labor.

My midwife checked me: I was only 3 centimeters.

That's a tougher target to hit when you've been contracting forever, have run out of coping mechanisms and are still only 3 centimeters dilated.

I was only 2.5 centimeters dilated, so the midwife checked my vitals and suggested we try to get some rest, since it was the middle of the night.

Saras explained that that meant I had only a tiny bit of cervix left — not even a centimeter — and I was almost ready to push.

You can be exhibiting transition - like contractions and only be four - five centimeters, but still really close to having the baby.

I freaked only 3 centimeters I was in labor over 24 hours; they calmed me and said I would be out by noon and to prepare the room and tub.

Radio waves that originated at a later time in cosmic history, on the other hand, might be stretched only, say, fivefold, arriving here as 105 - centimeter signals.

Tullimonstrum gregarium, informally dubbed the «Tully Monster» after the amateur fossil hunter who discovered the first specimens in 1958, is monstrous only in terms of its appearance (artist's concept above), with the largest individuals measuring in at about 15 centimeters long.

The only theropods known to have lived in the region at the time — and large enough to have created the 47 - centimeter - wide track — were tyrannosaurs.

This device, only 2 centimeters long, contains sixteen chambers.

Wade, the designated surgeon, then reached into the slit with a small copper knife firmly wedged between his first and second fingers so that only a few centimeters of blade peeked out.

The increase in water level was probably only a few centimeters — enough to make only a small difference compared with the magnitude of the tidal surge created by the storm.

The researchers used the state - of - the - art nanofabrication technology to make arrays of electrodes with a width of only 100 nanometers (0.00001 centimeters) to excite sound waves at an unprecedented high frequency that is higher than 10 GHz, the frequency used for satellite communications.

Unexpectedly, the investigators found that the rate of growth of children in the short - term high - dose strategy group was about 0.23 centimeters per year less than the rate for children in the low - dose strategy group, even though the high - dose treatments were given only about two weeks per year on average.

Considering only larger trees (≥ 10 centimeters in diameter), the pattern persisted, with most species being more aggregated than random.

Lienkaemper and McFarland found that only about 74 percent of the predicted amount of afterslip for the Parkfield earthquake — a maximum expected value of about 35 centimeters — was complete a year after the earthquake.

Because the coil that generates these signals is currently small i.e; only three centimeters in diameter, it was necessary to anesthetize the mice to keep them still.

Lezius and his team at Menlo Systems, a spin - off company of Nobel Laureate T.W. Hänsch's group at the Max Plank Institute for Quantum Optics, developed a fully automated optical frequency comb that measures only 22 by 14.2 centimeters and weighs 22 kilograms.

The cylindrical holes stretched down about 5 meters into the earth, but were also skinny, only 32 centimeters wide.

Oxygen from seawater permeated only the upper millimeter or so of sediment, but the researchers noticed something happening much deeper in the mud, more than a centimeter below, as if oxygen were available down there, as well.

The camera's optics occupy only 3 % of the volume of its 75 - centimeter - by -75-centimeter-by-50 - centimeter frame — a size needed both to contain the camera's circuit boards and to keep them from overheating, the researchers report online today in Nature.

Using only their thoughts to control the robotic arm, S3 and T2 were able to reach out and touch a series of 6 - centimeter foam ball targets 49 % to 95 % of the time in over 200 trials.

«We could hit it with a trillion neutrons per square centimeter, and the beam would still only consume one in a billion lithium atoms inside the battery,» Cao said.

The average is calculated (for males, it comes to between 27 and 28 centimeters, or 10.5 and 11 inches, from the front of the toilet seat), but that's only the first hurdle.

Rich suspects that the animal would have been only about 8.5 centimeters long and a «generalized insectivore.»

This catalyst has demonstrated specific activity at 10 milliamps per square centimeter of oxide catalyst (OER current normalized to catalyst surface area), with only 270 to 290 millivolts of overpotential for 30 hours of continuous testing in acidic electrolyte.

The best measure of larynx size is the hyoid, a U-shaped bone that supports the tongue and larynx; its size varies from only 8 cubic centimeters in some species to 110 cubic centimeters — 14 times larger — in others.

To be useful in mapping the universe, the method needs to be refined so that researchers need study only the variations in the 21 - centimeter radiation alone.

But when the team washed off the PVA, the nanotube fibers were only about 20 centimeters long.

In fog so dense that human vision could penetrate only 36 centimeters, the system was able to resolve images of objects and gauge their depth at a range of 57 centimeters.

In many places, it may only be a few centimeters thick.

While studying fire tornadoes — whirlwinds of red and yellow flame and ash — in the lab, scientists have stumbled on a new blue fire tornado that is stable, quiet, and only 6 centimeters tall, Popular Science reports.

These convective surface motions average only a few centimeters a year — about as fast as your fingernails grow — which means cells recycle their surfaces every 500,000 years or so.

One of the central questions was why Ata — only 15 centimeters tall and thus the size of a 5 - month - old fetus — had bone development in the growth plates of its knees that would normally be seen in a 6 - year - old.

In both cases, CovertBand's data could be used to decipher repetitive movements such as arm - pumping, walking or pelvic tilts to a range of up to 6 meters from the smartphone, with a positional error of only 8 to 18 centimeters.

The rats, which can reach lengths of 46 centimeters and bore through coconut shells to feed on the meat inside, are incredibly rare — researchers were only able to find the specimen after it was injured when a tree fell.

Particles smaller than half a centimeter, called microplastics, account for 94 percent of the pieces, but only 8 percent of the overall mass.

Because the seedlings stand only 10 centimeters tall, the scientists concluded that the leaves» color would help a young, tender plant blend in with leaf litter and hide it from a browsing moa.

Using a statistics - based technique to compare their shape and size with the skulls of many other hominins, Harvard University paleoanthropologist Philip Rightmire found that only one of the Dmanisi skulls — at 730 cubic centimeters — fits «comfortably within the confines of H. erectus.»

The 48 - centimeter (19 - inch) tall black and white Galápagos penguins landed on the endangered species list in 2000 after the population plummeted to only a few hundred individuals and are now considered the rarest penguins in the world.