Sentences with phrase «only centimetres»

Nine of the works are arrestingly hung only centimetres apart in a horizontal line on a single wall, like Ellsworth Kelly's Spectrum V (1969).

His bare arse approaches the shackled man's face with slow precision, stopping only centimetres away.

Not exact matches

There are therefore only about three centimetres between the individual packs on the conveyors.

The new animal is about 30 centimetres long, with a shell only a millimetre wide.

Lars Peter Nielsen and his colleagues at Aarhus University in Denmark have found that tens of thousands of electric bacteria can join together to form daisy chains that carry electrons over several centimetres — a huge distance for a bacterium only 3 or 4 micrometres long.

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

The smallest of the antelopes, they stand 25 to 30 centimetres high at the shoulder and only weigh about 3 kilograms.

Only one study measured the participants» adult height: it found there was a 1.2 - centimetre difference between people who had used inhaled steroids as a child and those who were given a placebo.

The drone can only currently fly ten centimetres above the magnetic field transmission source.

Amazingly, this specimen was very close to the surface — only 60 centimetres down.

Only 10 - 15 centimetres high, Haemanthus pumilio is one of the smallest paintbrush lilies.

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

«Not only do they move away from light, but they can pick out a dark shade at a distance of about 40 centimetres and move towards it very rapidly,» says neurobiologist Lauren Sumner - Rooney at the University of Oxford, UK, who led the study.

As well as raising IQ by 1.29, it increases the overall volume of the brain — but only by 0.58 per cent of average brain size, adding around 9 cubic centimetres of tissue.

«Usually the movement is only 10 to 20 centimetres.

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.

Producing a hole of about 50 centimetres — wider than those of either SUBGLACIOR or the UK RAID — it is the only rapid drill that can extract rocks from the bottom of a core.

«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.»

The scale is different, though: Myrmeleon crudelis is only about 2 centimetres long.

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.

Drillers pump a mixture of treacly gel and sandy grains down the pipe at high pressure, and this creates a disc - shaped crack hundreds of metres high and across, but only 1 centimetre wide.

The Hubble telescope, with an optical system considered comparable to those of the finest US spy satellites, would pick out objects only 10 to 20 centimetres across if it was aimed at Earth.

The areas that appeared bright in the radio images but dark in the laser observations correspond to warmer patches on Mercury, where ice would be stable only if buried under a 10 - centimetre - thick layer of other material.

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

The mites are only about 0.1 centimetres long, while the spider is about 5 centimetres.

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.

For now, Smalley's team can only make simple outlines about a centimetre across — the particle can't move fast enough to trick our eyes into seeing a persistent image larger than that.

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.

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.

But at this data rate a 12 - centimetre CD, with a capacity of 600 megabytes, can store only around 10 minutes of video.

The mirror has to be flexible in a sense to allow you to do that and although this flexibility is of the order of microns - it is not moved by millimetres - means that the mirror is very, very thin compared with its size - it is 8.2 metres in diameter but only 17 centimetres thick to allow you to be able to apply these forces.

The reason women are so much more prone to these infections than men is because the tube that leads to the bladder (the urethra) is really short in females — being only about four centimetres long.

I am 182 centimetres long and having only 56 kg weight.

They're as comfortable as trainers, only better suited for higher temperatures, and obviously perfect for winning a few welcome centimetres if you're very averagely tall like me.

Integrated booster seats are only for children between 120 and 145 centimetres (47 and 57 inches) in height, weighing between 22 and 38 kilograms (48 and 85 pounds).

In the Panamera, the Burmester system not only includes multiple amps et al, but features 16 speakers covering (according to Porsche) a «never before» installed 2400 square centimetres of «acoustically effective surface».

As regards passenger space, the Altea XL offers attractive solutions, such as the option of moving the rear seats, not only 14 centimetres forward as already mentioned, but also another two centimetres back, which results in more space for the rear passengers.

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

The Panamera has only grown six millimetres in width, but it feels like several centimetres.

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.

Working with US - based electronic paper pioneer E-Ink, Philips has developed a paper - white, 13 centimetre - wide screen which is only 0.1 millimetres thick and can be pulled from a tight roll just 15 millimetres in diameter.

At only 315 grams and just 127 mm wide, it's more than 20 percent lighter and one centimetre narrower than Kindle Fire HD.

Nokia's 700 is their smallest mobile phone at just 50 cubic centimetres, whilst measuring 110 mm in height, 50.7 mm wide and is only 9.7 mm thick, along with weighing in at 96grams.

The removal of a tumour is a delicate procedure, with the veterinary surgeon required to take not only the tumour and tap root, but also at least 2 centimetres of flesh surrounding the tumour.

The new gallery space was chosen for its unique architecture: seven floors above the ground and two underground, the façade on the main street is only 5 meters wide, while the opposite end gets to an extreme tiny width of 54 centimetres.

This means that the sea levels may rise in the twenty - first century only a few centimetres more than what they rose during the twentieth century.

Scientists who made coring tests off Barrow in Alaska — which recorded the earliest ever spring melt in 78 years of record - keeping − report that where they would have expected thicknesses of up to 150 centimetres, they were recording depths of only 80 to 100 cm.

It turns out that the only thing stopping seawater getting in the troughs is a very small bit of ice, equivalent to only 8 centimetres of global sea level rise, which Mengel & Levermann nickname the «ice plug».

Also, the chip can only be read within 10 centimetres from a chip reader, so it can not be accidentally read.

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