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Example sentences for "about sixteen"

  • The FLUTE BIRD (Gymnorhina tibicen) is a species of Crow, about sixteen and a half inches in length.

  • The length of the male is about sixteen inches, the female is somewhat larger, but exactly resembles her mate in the colour of her plumage.

  • Having found such a place, enlarge the hole until it is about sixteen by twenty inches in size, making a pen the same size as the hole, by shoving down dead sticks about four inches apart.

  • The average sized coyote will make a footprint about two inches in length and the length of step is about sixteen inches.

  • They came up about sixteen abreast, or something like that.

  • Pores irregular, roundish, twice to four times as broad as the bars; about sixteen on the half meridian.

  • Cortical shell with thorny surface and irregular network; pores roundish, twice to four times as broad as the bars; about sixteen on the half meridian, twelve on the half equator.

  • Pores irregular, twice to five times as broad as the bars; about sixteen on the half meridian.

  • Pores irregular, roundish, twice to five times as broad as the bars; about sixteen on the half meridian.

  • The missionaries say the fall is about sixteen ells, or fifty feet.

  • The first detachment is therefore gone; I hope that we, the rest, will follow in about sixteen or eighteen days.

  • One lad of about sixteen, Hofe from Ysabel Island, died last Friday morning.

  • It was Another, a young lad, about sixteen, Whom Parmeno brought with him.

  • But she, if living, is about sixteen; Not more: and Thais older than myself.

  • She is about sixteen, not more; Thais Is elder than myself.

  • A girl is considered fit to be married when she is about sixteen years of age; a man about twenty, or as soon as the body is fully developed.

  • The round pits are from ten to fourteen feet in diameter, and the elliptical have a length of about sixteen feet, and are about eight feet at the widest part of the ellipse.

  • The larger ones cover an area of about sixteen or eighteen feet square.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    about eight times the; about eighteen; about fifty; about four; about fourteen; about half the length; about latitude; about one; about right; about seventy; about six; about south; about ten; about that; about the; about the same date; about the same period; about the same size; about them; about three; about twenty; although many; deserves notice; leagues farther; left the; like bracts