Any items that require repairs and spare parts would be very undesirable as inventories of non-metric parts and tools would have to be maintained. uff the fluff says: ❋ Unknown (2010)
My younger sister had a 5. 8kg baby, around 12lbs14oz for the non-metric. ❋ Unknown (2009)
It will have a claimed EV range of 50 km, or 31 miles to us non-metric types. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The weather is close to 20C (almost 70F for you non-metric folks) and I went outside today without – gasp! ❋ Unknown (2007)
If I say "He had a bruise on the back of his hand 47 mm in diameter." that might not mean an awful lot to the non-metric crowd. ❋ Steve Perry (2009)
Verheugen blamed British officials for prosecuting the Metric Martyrs, claiming that the Commission had not banned market traders and small shopkeepers from using non-metric measures. ❋ FIDO The Dog (2008)
Bernard Lagat beat two of the world's best milers — Kenya's Alex Kipchirchir and Bahrain's Rashid Ramzy — to win the mile in 3: 51.53, the best time in the world this year at the occasionally run non-metric distance. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Mrs Devers, who runs a stall in Ridley Road, Hackney, is the sister of Colin Hunt, one of the five original martyrs whose conviction for the crime of selling in non-metric measures was upheld by the High Court in 2002. ❋ FIDO The Dog (2008)
It seems that Her Majesty's Government (or HMG as it is known not so affectionately) has not exactly made up its mind about the use of non-metric measurements becoming illegal from 2010. ❋ Helen (2006)
It might therefore have been of some interest to the press that, only two days later, Hackney council officials, with the police in support, should again have seized Mr Hunt's non-metric scales - which he only uses in response to the wishes of his largely black customers - and a week later should have summoned his sister for police interview, preparatory to prosecuting her under the very law whose existence Mr Verheugen denied. ❋ FIDO The Dog (2008)
The rest of the short debate was taken up by a number of noble lords pointing out the stupidity and economic nonsense of making the printing of non-metric measurements a criminal offence. ❋ Helen (2006)
The Commission is so set on stamping out the hated non-metric system that, as of 1 January 2010, it is imposing a total ban on what it calls "supplementary indications" – ie any mention of inches, pounds or other non-metric units in advertising, labelling, catalogues, manuals and the like. ❋ Richard (2006)
All systems of weights and measures, metric and non-metric, are linked through a network of international agreements supporting the International System of Units. ❋ Unknown (2008)
What makes Hackney's action even odder is that, although the council boasts that it enforces the law "with consistency", some 20 other traders in the same market are still selling in non-metric measures with impunity. ❋ FIDO The Dog (2008)
In other words, any US company wishing to sell to the EU will have to set up separate inventories and warehousing to ensure that its products carry no reference to non-metric units. ❋ Richard (2006)
Particularly hard hit will be the engineering, electrical and electronics sectors, which face an enormous technical problem in disentangling the hotch-potch of metric and non-metric units that govern their production. ❋ Richard (2006)
According to Booker today, an extraordinary row, involving major European and US industries, is blowing up over the EU commission's determination to make it illegal, in three years 'time, for any products made in or imported into the EU to carry any reference to non-metric measures. ❋ Richard (2006)
This in itself will be illegal under the US Fair Trade and Packaging Act, which permits use of metric units only so long as they are accompanied by a US non-metric "translation". ❋ Richard (2006)
