| 11. | Many people in the US don't understand metric units very well.
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| 12. | Currently 137 gauges are defined by metric units, and 136 by imperial units.
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| 13. | *All of the quantities in imperial units should be converted to metric units.
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| 14. | "We should have had them in metric units, " he said.
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| 15. | In scientific work metric units are the standard for many, but not all.
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| 16. | :: If Merka accepted metric units, we wouldn't have any problem.
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| 17. | However, most serious writing in the UK uses metric units.
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| 18. | For the first time, they were specified in metric units.
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| 19. | In the 1950s, NATO adopted metric units of measurement for land and general use.
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| 20. | Amongst other changes, imperial units are now followed by metric units in the specifications.
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