Example sentences of "[adv] [art] [det] millimetres " in BNC.
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1 | Normally , these bubbles ( or vesicles ) are only a few millimetres across and quite thinly scattered , but sometimes , if the lava has been particularly gas rich , the rock is so honeycombed with large bubbles that it looks like some kinds of Swiss cheese ; more holes than solid . |
2 | Coral polyps are each only a few millimetres across but working together in colonies , they have produced the greatest animal constructions the world had seen before man began his labours . |
3 | Most are only a few millimetres long . |
4 | Remember that most adult gall insects are only a few millimetres long and only one or two millimetres wide . |
5 | Put a scrap of newspaper on the block or box and lower the strip until the drop is only a few millimetres above the paper . |
6 | The opening to the organ is only a few millimetres in diameter , and so it acts rather like a pin-hole camera , but one that focuses infra-red heat radiation instead of light . |
7 | When a cosmic-ray encounters solid matter then in most cases it penetrates only a few millimetres and leaves a detectable track . |
8 | These too need a rich food supply to complete their development , and the newly metamorphosed toads , just a few millimetres long , are exactly the right size . |
9 | In materials composed of sand-sized particles this depth is just a few millimetres , but in clay-sized materials in which the voids are or less across it can be tens of metres . |
10 | The net result could be a rise in sea levels by just a few millimetres . |
11 | He says that although they 're just a few millimetres in size , in a year they 'll be as big as their mother . |