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Example sentences for "fifteen inches"

  • Floor beds are generally nine to fifteen inches deep; about nine inches in the case of manure alone, in warm quarters, and ten to fourteen inches when manure and loam are used.

  • For a neat crop, sow in drills one and a half to two inches deep, and spaced from twelve to fifteen inches apart.

  • Put down the line at nine inches from the edge on both sides, and at intervals of fifteen inches in the rows dibble holes two inches deep, dropping two or three seeds in each.

  • Dig deep always: if the soil be shallow it is advisable to turn the top spit in the usual manner, and break up the subsoil thoroughly for another twelve or fifteen inches.

  • It grows rapidly and will attain a diameter of fifteen inches in twenty years or less; but it apparently does not live long.

  • It grows to a diameter of fifteen inches in about forty-five years.

  • In the Lake States the common height is fifty or sixty feet, and the diameter is twelve or fifteen inches.

  • It grows to a length of twelve to fifteen inches.

  • The saucer-eye grows to twelve or fifteen inches in length, and is considered a good pan-fish at Key West, commanding a ready sale.

  • It grows to a length of ten inches, sometimes to twelve or fifteen inches in favorable localities, but in Florida is mostly from six to eight inches in length.

  • He now restricts his plants to hills or "stools," from twelve to fifteen inches apart.

  • The vines along the ridge stand twelve to fifteen inches apart.

  • Have 300 apple trees, sixteen years planted, from ten to fifteen inches in diameter.

  • This beautiful species, whose colours are soft and the feathers thick and silky, is hardly larger than the thrush, though its length is from fourteen to fifteen inches, two-thirds of which are included in the tail.

  • The blocks of these two mutations are turned out of one piece of wood, whose length from the barrel of the fifth wheel, to the block of the eighth wheel, is fifteen inches.

  • The length of the case is fifteen inches, and seven-twelfths of an inch in diameter.

  • In length they are, as well as the Mosaic candle, fifteen inches.

  • On a rich, finely-pulverized soil, sow the seeds in drills, fifteen inches apart, and cover very lightly.

  • The main box should be one foot square by fifteen inches high.

  • In size the ayu is not more than a foot to fifteen inches long.

  • Most of these species are very abundant throughout the lake, and all reach a length of twelve to fifteen inches.

  • By the beginning of September, however, they have reached six or seven inches, and on their reappearance in the second year they measure about twelve or fifteen inches.

  • Root produced within the earth, fourteen or fifteen inches long, three or four inches in diameter at the broadest part, fusiform, not very symmetrical, but often quite crooked and angular.

  • Root produced entirely below ground, regularly fusiform, fifteen inches long, by about three inches in its largest diameter.

  • If possible, the ground should be stirred to the depth of twelve or fifteen inches, incorporating a liberal application of well-digested compost, and well pulverizing the soil in the operation.

  • On his head is a sombrero of yellow or brown felt, the brim of which is twelve to fifteen inches broad, and the crown measuring the same in height.

  • The first year they are in corn; the second in other small grain, with which he sows red clover.

  • They are taking down the circular wall of the Amphitheatre to pave a road.

  • The whale fishery is carried on by Brazilians altogether, and not by Portuguese; but in very small vessels, so that the fishermen know nothing of managing a large ship.

  • They have abundance of horses, but only a part of their country would admit the service of horses.

  • Saw an elder tree (sambucus) near Nice, fifteen inches in diameter, and eight feet stem.

  • Some of them have stems of fifteen inches diameter.

  • They leave buds proportioned to the strength of the vine, sometimes as much as fifteen inches.

  • There is a mortar of wood, twelve or fifteen inches deep, under each pestle, covered with a board, the hole of which is only large enough to let the pestle pass freely.

  • The stalks are from nine to fifteen inches long, rather stout, green when living, but straw-color when dried for the herbarium, in which condition they are furrowed in front and along the two sides.

  • The branchlets nearest the forking of the stalk are from four to fifteen inches long, those more remote successively shorter.

  • The stalks are usually from a foot to fifteen inches high, and from half a line to a line in thickness.

  • Two; oval-elliptical to narrowly oblanceolate; four to fifteen inches long; blotched with brown.

  • Three to fifteen inches high; umbel two- to twenty-flowered.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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