(1) The biggest sapphires found there range up to three centimetres in length and about half a centimeter in diameter.(2) Again and again he did so, a little bit at a time, improving his own record by a centimetre here and a centimetre there.(3) The line of tiles was running off at a tangent by a centimetre every metre.(4) Beds of magnesite range in average thickness from five centimetres to five metres.(5) Patches can range from a few millimetres to a few centimetres in size.(6) He says such a pen is just two metres long by 60 centimetres wide, with a concrete floor and no bedding.(7) The young, which are about a centimetre in length, feed on their reserves for the first few days of life.(8) Individual coal balls range from a few centimetres to over a metre in length.(9) Her fingernails were of medium length, about four centimeters long, and she had painted them dark purple.(10) Shoot length was measured in centimetres , from the base to the top, using a fabric tape measure.(11) Providing measurements of birds in both inches and centimeters was a very good idea.(12) The water table is hurtling down not by centimetres or inches but, hold your breath, metres!(13) The architecture of the lower lava sequence is now discussed on the centimetre to metre scale.(14) The sari is a length of cloth measuring from about four to eight metres by about 120 centimetres .(15) Sand volcanoes range in diameter from a few centimetres to several metres.(16) The same numbers apply if I measure distance in miles or centimeters or any other unit.