| Our modern metric units, like the gram or the centimetre, originate from their handy description of everyday quantities. |
| The line of tiles was running off at a tangent by a centimetre every metre. |
| The architecture of the lower lava sequence is now discussed on the centimetre to metre scale. |
| The young, which are about a centimetre in length, feed on their reserves for the first few days of life. |
| Squid come in all sizes, from a centimetre to over a metre in length, and the life cycles of different species vary greatly. |
| Huge cauliflower soft corals, basket stars and brightly coloured sponges seem to cover almost every centimetre of reef. |
