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Ana Frankenberg-Garcia
Non-metric measures
Non-metric measures
Americans do not usually use the metric system. What units of measure do they use instead?
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1. And how big are these fish? - They can get up to eight feet
degrees
Fahrenheit
feet
foot
gallons
inches
long
miles
ounces
pint
pints
pounds
weigh
wide
and
degrees
Fahrenheit
feet
foot
gallons
inches
long
miles
ounces
pint
pints
pounds
weigh
wide
200 pounds.
2. But who killed him? And how did he end up here, more than 300
degrees
Fahrenheit
feet
foot
gallons
inches
long
miles
ounces
pint
pints
pounds
weigh
wide
away from his home in New Jersey?
3. Duncan picked me up in his Prius, and we made it to Buffalo, Wyoming, in five hours using only six
degrees
Fahrenheit
feet
foot
gallons
inches
long
miles
ounces
pint
pints
pounds
weigh
wide
of gas.
4. Each seat has its own LCD television screen. In coach, the screen is 10.6
degrees
Fahrenheit
feet
foot
gallons
inches
long
miles
ounces
pint
pints
pounds
weigh
wide
wide. In business, 15
degrees
Fahrenheit
feet
foot
gallons
inches
long
miles
ounces
pint
pints
pounds
weigh
wide
, about the size of your laptop screen.
5. Four
degrees
Fahrenheit
feet
foot
gallons
inches
long
miles
ounces
pint
pints
pounds
weigh
wide
of jasmine tea costs about $9.
6. Her room, her cubicle? It's only six feet
degrees
Fahrenheit
feet
foot
gallons
inches
long
miles
ounces
pint
pints
pounds
weigh
wide
by five feet
degrees
Fahrenheit
feet
foot
gallons
inches
long
miles
ounces
pint
pints
pounds
weigh
wide
. There's barely space for a twin bed and a pile of books
7. I had two
degrees
Fahrenheit
feet
foot
gallons
inches
long
miles
ounces
pint
pints
pounds
weigh
wide
of beer and a burger.
8. I´m in the back of a police van protesting my innocence, trying to explain to the police officers that I only had one
degrees
Fahrenheit
feet
foot
gallons
inches
long
miles
ounces
pint
pints
pounds
weigh
wide
of beer.
9. I'm barely five
degrees
Fahrenheit
feet
foot
gallons
inches
long
miles
ounces
pint
pints
pounds
weigh
wide
-- four
degrees
Fahrenheit
feet
foot
gallons
inches
long
miles
ounces
pint
pints
pounds
weigh
wide
, ten
degrees
Fahrenheit
feet
foot
gallons
inches
long
miles
ounces
pint
pints
pounds
weigh
wide
in truth.
10. I'm sorry, but I'll have to go six
degrees
Fahrenheit
feet
foot
gallons
inches
long
miles
ounces
pint
pints
pounds
weigh
wide
per hour faster than the limit.
11. In a house in the woods on the outskirts of a small town seventy
degrees
Fahrenheit
feet
foot
gallons
inches
long
miles
ounces
pint
pints
pounds
weigh
wide
northwest of New York City, Danny Malloy wakes with the dawn.
12. In one Harvard study of over 44,000 women, a waist measuring 35 or more
degrees
Fahrenheit
feet
foot
gallons
inches
long
miles
ounces
pint
pints
pounds
weigh
wide
doubled the risk of dying early from heart disease.
13. It was the size of a coffee table, he says, about three
degrees
Fahrenheit
feet
foot
gallons
inches
long
miles
ounces
pint
pints
pounds
weigh
wide
by three.
14. Limit meat portions to four
degrees
Fahrenheit
feet
foot
gallons
inches
long
miles
ounces
pint
pints
pounds
weigh
wide
a day.
15. New Hampshire winters warmed 3.8
degrees
Fahrenheit
feet
foot
gallons
inches
long
miles
ounces
pint
pints
pounds
weigh
wide
degrees
Fahrenheit
feet
foot
gallons
inches
long
miles
ounces
pint
pints
pounds
weigh
wide
in the 20th century
16. She could not have weighed more than ninety
degrees
Fahrenheit
feet
foot
gallons
inches
long
miles
ounces
pint
pints
pounds
weigh
wide
.
17. She's described as fair-complexioned, blond, and approximately 120
degrees
Fahrenheit
feet
foot
gallons
inches
long
miles
ounces
pint
pints
pounds
weigh
wide
.
18. Take shorter showers and save up to five
degrees
Fahrenheit
feet
foot
gallons
inches
long
miles
ounces
pint
pints
pounds
weigh
wide
of water per minute.
19. Up to 10
degrees
Fahrenheit
feet
foot
gallons
inches
long
miles
ounces
pint
pints
pounds
weigh
wide
of snow fell in parts of that state.
20. With the water temperature at the time of the accident being 36
degrees
Fahrenheit
feet
foot
gallons
inches
long
miles
ounces
pint
pints
pounds
weigh
wide
degrees
Fahrenheit
feet
foot
gallons
inches
long
miles
ounces
pint
pints
pounds
weigh
wide
, that made it a possibility for hypothermia to set in pretty quickly
21. Within a year and a half, I'd lost 100
degrees
Fahrenheit
feet
foot
gallons
inches
long
miles
ounces
pint
pints
pounds
weigh
wide
. My health improved, and I stopped taking blood pressure meds.
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