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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A tolerance of one millimetre means that the measurement has to be within one millimetre of what has been specified.
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Cells can not normally be seen without a microscope, being about one-thousandth of a millimetre in diameter.
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Conversations with clients were tape-recorded and remote controlled 35 millimetre Olympus cameras took photographs in the bedrooms.
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If an animal moves a millimetre out of the state park zones, it's dead.
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Male speaker I thought one millimetre was good enough on this kind of car.
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The bullet gouged through Michael Rentas's right hand, but it was deflected, missing his skull by a millimetre .
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Their boffins used sophisticated hospital scanners to mould the exact shape of Schuey's head to within one-tenth of a millimetre .