Which preposition to use with centimetre

in Occurrences 6%

The smallest butterflies are about a few centimetres in size and one of the biggest butterflies is about the size of two palms put together.

of Occurrences 3%

As soon as it descried the land, it tacked and stood out in the open sea; because it was on the shallows, and it would have been imprudent to pass the night in one metre, or one metre 30 centimetres of water; it had already grounded two or three times.

above Occurrences 2%

Their backs rose about 30 centimetres above the water: several of them appeared to us to be at least 10 metres in length.

on Occurrences 2%

1 in 50,000 metres means that 1 centimetre on the map equals a run of 50,000 metres; 2 centimetres equal a kilometre or 100,000 metres; 8 kilometres equal five English miles.

at Occurrences 1%

All the things which had been thrown overboard had lightened her, by twenty or thirty centimetres at the most, her draught of water might certainly have been lessened still more; but it was not done because the Governor of Senegal objected to throwing the barrels of flour into the sea, alledging that the greatest scarcity prevailed in the European factories.

Which preposition to use with  centimetre