1.   Converting metric measurements to U.S. equivalents is easy.

2.   After the war he refused a commission and went back to the timber business, inventing a machine for grading timber and introducing metric measurements.

3.   Gavin said previous Mars missions always used metric measurements.

4.   It veered off course after Lockheed engineers sent JPL navigational data that they had failed to convert to metric measurement units.

5.   Other parts of the legislation would eliminate current federal requirements that highway signs include metric measurements and that states use recycled scrap tire rubber in asphalt pavements.

6.   At JPL, the numbers were entered into a computer that assumed metric measurements.

7.   Others, such as automakers, have switched to metric measurements.