adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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centimetre
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If they were packed tightly there could be 5 thousand million of them in a cubic centimetre of inflammation.
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How many hydra per cubic centimetre teem in that pond?
foot
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For the cost of a few cubic feet of topsoil, the garden can be terraced excitingly on to, say, three levels.
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Half a million cubic feet of the building are used to store the paper on which the intercepts eventually appear.
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All the pallets were of a standard size which Bob guessed to be about four feet square, about sixty-four cubic feet.
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It offers 118 cubic feet of cargo space, or five times the trunk space of a Buick Regal.
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This hasn't restricted the boot space which is 18 cubic feet - square and uncluttered thanks to the good suspension design.
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In San Marcos, river conditions can be adversely affected when spring flow drops below 100 cubic feet per second.
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Clever design also ensures that the Safrane offers 10% more basic luggage space than the Renault 25 at 17 cubic feet .
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It delivers about 700 million cubic feet of gas per day.
inch
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These have a radius of about ten miles and densities of millions of tons per cubic inch .
kilometres
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Of this, 4 million cubic kilometres is a reasonable estimate for the freshwater we could extract.
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About four cubic kilometres of ash were ejected, falling out over an area of 57,000 square kilometres.
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If Shaw is right one such flood must have contained around 84,000 cubic kilometres of water.
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How can this happen on a planet that has an estimated 1400 million cubic kilometres of water?
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By far the largest proportion is in the oceans, which hold roughly 1370 million cubic kilometres of salt water.
meter
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If conservation measures were adopted, the report said, the forests could cope with 9.2 million cubic meters a year.
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They put an upper limit of 4.6 million cubic meters on annual timber extraction.
metre
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You then need to multiply this by your company's charge for each cubic metre of water.
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Charges differ throughout the country but 40p per cubic metre is a rough guide.
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Levels of sulphur dioxide in the air reached 2,400 microgrammes per cubic metre over the weekend.
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If all goes to plan, the sail will collapse into a box less than a cubic metre in volume.
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The new limit is one billionth of a gram per cubic metre .
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The consultants reckon that pumping water from depths of 20 metres would cost less than 50 cents per cubic metre with solar power.
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We each drink about one cubic metre of water a year and use between 50 and 100 for domestic purposes.
metres
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Over one and a half million cubic metres of ash were swept out of what remained of the town.
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Inside was a habitable volume of just under six cubic metres .
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In the beginning, it lost about 15 billion cubic metres of water by seepage each year.
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The catamaran can work to a depth of 25 metres , excavating 250-300 cubic metres an hour.
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More than 110,000 tonnes of concrete will be used - 45,000 cubic metres - and 8,500 tonnes of reinforced steel.
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Releases were increased over the weekend to 7500 cubic metres a second, engulfing communities on the floodplain below.
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Timber production in Sarawak reached 18 million cubic metres in 1990.
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Omsk alone required the excavation of 130,000 cubic metres of earth.
yard
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It was at this inquest that Gordon Thomas claimed that 60,000 cubic yards of earth had been moved during the excavation.
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For every fifty cubic yards of concrete, Carlton took four samples and pressed them into plastic cylinders.
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Every last cubic yard on Sir George's side of the road.
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Wieczorek estimates the total volume of rock as 80, 000 cubic yards .
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The government was paying farmers fifteen cents a cubic yard to move dirt.
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A landslide of 600, 000 cubic yards of granite occurred in the park in 1987 but caused no air blast.
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In all, there is 35, 000 cubic yards of garbage.
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Still, Waste Management estimated that 35, 000 cubic yards of refuse would have to be excavated.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A country that imports wheat rather than growing it locally therefore saves 1,000 cubic metres of water for every tonne it imports.
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All the pallets were of a standard size which Bob guessed to be about four feet square, about sixty-four cubic feet.
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Dux wanted cubic capacity, lots of it.
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It offers 118 cubic feet of cargo space, or five times the trunk space of a Buick Regal.
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The government was paying farmers fifteen cents a cubic yard to move dirt.
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The men were injured in March last year when seven cubic metres of concentrated nitric acid escaped from a valve.
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The total volume of the brown shales is 12, 600 cubic miles as determined from a study of well cuttings.
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Up to 1.2 million cubic metres are expected to be cut this year - three or four times as much as in 1991.