Example sentences of "only [art] [det] centimetres " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the ericaceous shrubs are a consistent part of the community , they are usually much reduced in stature by exposure and grazing , and may be only a few centimetres high . |
| 2 | Individually , haplochromines are not spectacular in appearance : most are only a few centimetres long , and silvery , when they are not in their breeding colours . |
| 3 | They grow sticking up vertically on sandy sea floors , some only a few centimetres long , some half as tall as a man . |
| 4 | They are all about the same size — only a few centimetres long — with roughly the same shape , slim , approximately rectangular , with high foreheads and small pouting mouths . |
| 5 | Mudskippers are only a few centimetres long and you can find them in mangrove swamps and muddy estuaries in many parts of the tropics , lying on the glistening mud well beyond the lap of the waters . |
| 6 | Radar and some ovens make use of microwaves , which are only a few centimetres or millimetres long . |
| 7 | integrifolia and the heather Cassiope tetragona ; these grow at most only a few centimetres high , forming thin stands that barely cover the ground . |
| 8 | Don Juan Pond , 122 m above sea level in Wright Valley and now only a few centimetres deep , is assumed to be the remnant of a much larger freshwater lake of at least 10 m depth . |
| 9 | He was holding the letter only a few centimetres from his eyes . |
| 10 | particles are stopped by a sheet of paper and have a range of only a few centimetres in the air . |