(1) She has no use of her right arm and can only walk short distances with the help of a caliper and walking stick.

(2) Dad has to wear a caliper on his leg because he had polio when he was young.

(3) Thirty-year-old Rinpoche, a rather short Tibetan, crippled with a special caliper on his leg and a cumbersome walker to support him, and me, Diana Pybus, a tall, sixteen-year-old girl with long blond hair.

(4) There are instruments available, mostly modified dial calipers , that make measuring the groups easy.

(5) Latterly a customer reported a car on fire in the car park, upon investigation it turned out to be a brake caliper seized to the disc but the car was no longer fit to drive and so consequently we had to arrange a rescue service.

(6) We also had agreement on standard brake discs, pads and calipers and agreement on reducing the weight limit.

(7) For each adult we measured body mass to the nearest 0.01 g using an electronic scale and measured the length of the metatarsus to the nearest 0.1 mm using slide calipers .

(8) Attributes were measured using dial metric calipers and a portable digital scale and included length, haft width, weight, shoulder width, and maximum thickness.

(9) She extended the callipers like a pair of compasses preparing to plot the landmarks on his face.

(10) Leaf, petiole, and internode lengths were measured with a ruler and petiole and internode diameters were measured with digital callipers .

(11) We will also be introducing disc-brake calipers for mountain bikes and motorcycles.

(12) For initial assessment and serial examination, the size of the mass may be measured using calipers or a tape measure.

(13) The other measuring equipment, apart from the 20-metre tape, we have vernier callipers , feeler strips and telescopic measures.

(14) To cope with its extra power, the ST gets appreciably larger disc brakes plus special calipers on all four wheels.

(15) I got down almost to Harrisburg, Pa., when a brake caliper seized.

(16) In addition, the plant produces corner modules, disc brake calipers , drum brakes and wheel cylinders.

(17) You can't make this sort of measurement with conventional calipers or even a micrometer.

(18) He needs callipers on his legs and struggles to speak clearly, but that doesn't stop him being a chatty boy at school, where teachers nominated him for a national award.

(19) They unrolled a blue mat on the forest floor and laid out an assortment of equipment, including a syringe with anesthesia, a ruler, calipers , a scale, a tape measure, a thermometer, and antibiotic ointment.

(20) This has in turn brought about an increase in wheel size, to get the larger disc brake and its calliper inside the wheel rim.

(21) Relieving the pressure at the calipers released the front wheels.

(22) The total height of each plant was measured using a ruler and the diameter of the first internode was measured at its midpoint using calipers .

(23) The list included the driveshaft, rear gear, rear hub, axle, all four brake calipers , all four rotors, all four brake pads, the master cylinders, the brake lines, all four shocks and all four springs.

(24) On the railings of this balcony, scientists have used their great calipers to take the measure of the heavenly bodies.

(25) Perthes' disease affects one in a thousand people and treatment can include patients being fitted with orthopaedic aids, such as callipers .

(26) The scanner reads the barcode into the spreadsheet, and the calipers magically transmit your measurements there as well.

(27) Cook recommends taking baseline data with a tape measure instead of fat calipers or scales.

(28) For example, wrists were measured using digital calipers , and as a result the mean discrepancy between repeated measures was modest, merely .037 inch.

(29) They held cooking classes, had their own vegetable garden and a workshop where they made shoes (out of old tyres), callipers and artificial limbs.

(30) Specialist equipment such as splints, callipers and braces can help with paralysis and contractures.