Sentences with phrase «times around the circumference»

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According to campaign group The Last Plastic Straw, 500 million straws are used and discarded every day in the US alone: enough to wrap around the Earth's circumference 2.5 times a day.

Your baby's doctor is looking at the relationship between height and weight (and head circumference) and whether your baby stays around the same percentile over time.

Use floral wire to measure the circumference of your head and then loop the wire around 3 - 4 times.

Now, an optical whispering gallery mode resonator developed by Penn State electrical engineers can spin light around the circumference of a tiny sphere millions of times, creating an ultrasensitive microchip - based sensor for multiple applications.

For progress and record keeping take photos weekly (at the same time and day) use circumference measurements around the waist, thighs, chest and upper arms.

At that time, I was shocked as to the speed of the rather large greyhound and a little disturbed that after racing around the circumference of the park, he spotted my mix breed little terrier and went after her.

To put this distance into perspective, keep in mind that the circumference of the earth at the equator is 24,901.55 miles (40,075.16 kilometers), so I effectively flew around the earth 1.4 times during my travel period.

An estimated 500 million disposable straws are used every day in the United States, which equals enough plastic to wrap around the earth's circumference 2.5 times!

That's enough, Nunez says, to wrap around the circumference of the Earth nine times.

Australians use an estimated 10 million straws a day, and the U.S. statistics are even more horrifying — 500 million straws a day, which is enough to wrap around the circumference of the Earth 2.5 times daily!