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Example sentences for "foot thick"

  • Next to this comes a lighter ash-coloured one, a foot thick; beneath this lies the eleventh stratum, which is dark and very much like the seventh, and two feet thick.

  • This is followed by an eighth stratum, ashy, rough, and a foot thick.

  • Joined to the last, and underneath, comes a stratum, the fourth in number, dark in colour and a foot thick.

  • It should be about a foot thick, and should be immediately removed when it becomes wet or mouldy.

  • Eighteen inches will not be too much for beds made in sheds, though I have seen excellent crops on beds only a foot thick, in common sheds with leaky sides.

  • When the bricks are nearly dry, they are placed on a hotbed about a foot thick, in a shed or dry place.

  • Above them are other pilasters, eighteen feet high, two feet broad, and a foot thick, which carry the beams supporting the principal raftering and the roof of the aisles, which is brought down lower than the main roof.

  • The lower stratum was from half a foot to a foot thick, and lay immediately over the original lake-sediment.

  • A hard stratum of travertine a foot thick is obtained, from these thermal springs, in the course of four months.

  • Immediately below this was a layer about 1 foot thick (No.

  • In July, the ice was so abundant that it could be seen from some distance: it was half a foot thick, and yielded neither to sun nor rain.

  • A spring of water flowed from the rock at a depth of thirty fathoms below the surface, and was promptly frozen into a coating of ice a foot thick.

  • On the 13th of March, after I had heard the bluebird, song sparrow, and red-wing, the ice was still nearly a foot thick.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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