Decimal system of units that uses the metre as the basis for its unit of length.
1 There is one rational objection to the metric system and but one.
2 It's time to move to the metric system like everyone else.
3 No wonder we are not allowed to have the metric system .
4 And remember in Northern Ireland you can shove your metric system : not an inch.
5 Must be hard to measure things right when you're using that durned metric system .
6 Then, besides, the amount of figuring is so much less in the metric system .
7 Then all institutions of learning use the metric system exclusively whenever this is possible.
8 He also pulled off a joke about the metric system .
9 Scientists are universally agreed as to the wisdom of the adoption of the metric system .
10 He opened a debate on the metric system , concerning which he had solid and well-thought-out opinions:
11 The work also contains copious historical notices on the metric system and on the initial meridian.
12 No better means of sickening the American children with the metric system could have been devised.
13 Considering that she came from a country that used the metric system , I should have been impressed.
14 Tenth, the metric system is wonderfully simple.
15 France, for example, has the metric system .
16 And being raised without the metric system is like being raised with a harness on your brain.
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