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The build-up of peatland happens very slowly, only growing about a millimetre or two every year.

From BBC • May 2, 2026

Not those hairline millimetre is he on or off line drawing nonsense situations.

From BBC • Feb. 15, 2026

The dust grains around R Doradus are typically only about one ten-thousandth of a millimetre across.

From Science Daily • Jan. 12, 2026

According to the weather department, north India's LPA rainfall between 1971 and 2020 was 184.3 millimetre.

From BBC • Jan. 11, 2026

No. VII. is a specimen of good transformer-plate, 0.301 millimetre thick, rolled from Swedish iron by Messrs Sankey of Bilston.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 2 "Ehud" to "Electroscope" by Various