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  • I now think in Centigrade not Fahrenheit which is a particularly dotty system and I reckon houses by square meters not rooms or square feet, but I am comfortable with acres or hectares, miles or kilometres and pints or litres.

    A Pint, please, Landlord! 2007

  • I now think in Centigrade not Fahrenheit which is a particularly dotty system and I reckon houses by square meters not rooms or square feet, but I am comfortable with acres or hectares, miles or kilometres and pints or litres.

    Archive 2007-09-09 2007

  • And since then, we actually have a temperature increase during the winter months of about four-and-a-half degrees Centigrade, which is a very large increase.

    CNN Transcript Oct 28, 2007 2007

  • And since then, we actually have a temperature increase during the winter months of about four-and-a-half degrees Centigrade, which is a very large increase.

    CNN Transcript Oct 27, 2007 2007

  • And since then, we actually have a temperature increase during the winter months of about four-and-a-half degrees Centigrade, which is a very large increase.

    CNN Transcript Oct 24, 2007 2007

  • And since then, we actually have a temperature increase during the winter months of about four-and-a-half degrees Centigrade, which is a very large increase.

    CNN Transcript Dec 25, 2007 2007

  • THE ANTARCTIC CONTINENT ANTARCTICA SOUTH vook NKANTARCTIC C ROS. 1+ bICE SHELFX ldirns lq CATo convert the Celsius Scale (which we used to call Centigrade) to Fahrenheit, multiply the temperature by nine fifths and add 32.

    Terra Incognita Wheeler, Sarah 1996

  • In shadow, too, a metal hull will drop very close to minus 250 degrees Centigrade, which is something like 400 degrees Fahrenheit below zero.

    Space Tug Murray Leinster 1935

  • "The temperature in Berlin yesterday was 131 degrees Centigrade, which is the highest temperature since 1848."

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, June 27, 1917 Various 1898

  • According to the United States Historical Climateology Network (USHNC) 90% of US climate-monitoring surface stations have been found to be poorly situated, meaning that they have a margin of error greater than one degree Centigrade, which is huge in climateology terms.

    The British National Party mercia 2010

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