Sentences with phrase «several centimetres»

Although the snakes struck out less often, they could «strike at and capture fish swimming several centimetres from the head and tentacles,» Catania says.

Around 90 % of mums - to - be get stretch marks, they usually appear on the breasts, thighs and belly and can vary in width from 1 - 10 mm and can be several centimetres long.

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.

But if they are part of an assembly which comes in a box several centimetres across and can be picked up by hand, people might buy them.

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

That's because, when the vehicle is turning, one wheel is ahead of the other by several centimetres and therefore the setback is negligible.

An accumulation of displacements could lead to a subsidence of several centimetres per decade, which would present a long - term danger for the villages located in the Vega de Granada area,» the authors say.

This collection of intermingled ice crystals can occasionally reach several centimetres in diameter.

Since these car seats would situate the child several centimetres closer to the dashboard, they pose a risk for air bag injuries if they are placed in the front seat.

Port wine stains are so called as they are flat red or purple marks and can vary in size from a few millimetres to several centimetres.

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.