Of course, late 20th Century satellites can now pinpoint a location to within centimetres.
If the climate stabilises soon, the ice cap might resettle at a slightly lower mass than it has now, raising sea levels by only a few centimetres.
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Nerve cells, though, are huge, and consist mainly of filaments that can be many centimetres long.
Over the next five years, the team will use a long, hollow, rotating drill to cut and retrieve a cylinder of ice roughly 12 centimetres across.
But further measurements using a laser and looking for reflections showed that much of the ice is covered with a layer of dark material tens of centimetres thick.
For both modes of crystal fibre, the pattern of holes is generated by stacking hollow glass tubes a millimetre or so in diameter to form a rod several centimetres thick.
Even though helium atoms are four times chunkier than hydrogen atoms, they are still small enough to find all the weak spots as they worm their way through the crystalline structure of solid steel several centimetres thick.
He warned, however, that some low-level areas could see several centimetres of snow.
"The tides will only be around four centimetres (1.4 inches) higher than normal for this time of year, " the Environment Agency said.
The baby, which measures just two centimetres (0.78 inches) in length, was caught by Ned Bailey from Mylor in a crab pot in Falmouth Bay.
The ability to extend his pursed lips as much as 10.4 centimetres had often meant the difference between achieving part of his thorax and not.
The more I am involved in the game of cricket the more I come to believe that this crazy game is not a game of inches but rather a game of centimetres, even millimetres.
It was reported recently that a well-qualified teacher in Fujian province was fired when it was found that he was four centimetres shorter than the required 1.60 metres.
Welsh high jumper Julie Crane, who won silver at the 2006 Commonwealths, won the Welsh championship with a jump of 1.75 metres - but the that is almost 20 centimetres less than British number one Jessica Ennis' season's best.
But it was his fourth leap where Idowu's dominance really showed, the world champion increasing his own personal best by eight centimetres with a huge jump of 17.81.
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Similarly, I would happily trade several centimetres of leg room with a bulkier traveller.
But, like the women, they missed crucial draws and shots by centimetres, which proved to be so costly.
Their model consists of two concentric steel cylinders, three metres high and 80 centimetres in diameter, filled with molten sodium.
The top one or two centimetres of lake deposits are enriched in nitrogen compounds.
"The good news is that they are measuring the nodules in my lungs in millimetres rather than centimetres, " Robson told the Mail on Sunday.
Such a fall may matter little for states such as Kerala in the south, which gets a monthly drenching of 50 centimetres (20 inches) during the wet season.
Portugal's Nelson Evora denied him the Olympic title in Beijing in 2008 by five centimetres and Phillips has vowed not to miss out again.
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Several centimetres of snow fell overnight, particularly on higher ground.
The blocks themselves, made from the fine-grained wood of pear or jujube trees, are cut to a thickness of two centimetres and polished with sandpaper to prepare them for engraving.
To make matters worse, the Iridium handset is an off-putting brick 7 inches (18 centimetres) long, weighing 1 pound (450 grams).
About two centimetres of the powdered leaf sat in the base of the glass.
To try to stop the cancer spreading, 10 centimetres of nerve was removed - causing permanent disability below the right knee.
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