If the metric system ever takes over we may have to say the following:

        * A miss is as good as 1.6 kilometers.
        * Put your best 0.3 of a meter forward.
        * Spare the 5.03 meters and spoil the child.
        * Twenty-eight grams of prevention is worth 453 grams of cure.
        * Give a man 2.5 centimeters and he'll take 1.6 kilometers.
        * Peter Piper picked 8.8 liters of pickled peppers.