I was surprised by this article from the Phillipines using inches first.  Are 
they only "marginally metric?"
I was also surprised by the level of innumeracy (check the conversions)

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/nation/view/20100117-247870/25-foot-ballot-seen-with-144-partylist-groups-in-polls
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Comelec spokesman James Arthur Jimenez said the ballot, as has been designed, 
has a “maximum” length of 26 inches or a little over two feet but a backup 
ballot design measuring 29 inches or nearly 2.5 feet could be used instead 
after the poll body’s approval of 144 party-list groups participating in the 
elections. . . .
 
Converted to the metric system, 26 inches is about 66 centimeters or one-third 
of a meter; 29 inches is 77.66 cm or nearly four-fifths of a meter.
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