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Example sentences for "half feet"

  • The Hudson Bay snow-shoe is only two and a half feet in length.

  • An average length is four and a half feet.

  • According to Farnham, that used by the Pi Utes is six feet long, while that of the Shoshones seen by Lewis and Clark was only two and a half feet in length.

  • The two centre posts, at each end, are two and a half feet in diameter, and carved into human figures, supporting two ridge poles on their heads, twelve feet from the ground.

  • It is generally made of yew or crab-apple wood, and is three and a half feet long, with about two inches at each end turned sharply backwards from the string.

  • Flowers gathered into very conspicuous pendent yellow spikes, two and a half feet long.

  • The swollen tuberous stem measures as much as one and a half feet in length, and is usually occupied by many ants.

  • The shield when finished is about three feet long and two and a half feet wide.

  • One writer describes a boat which was fifty feet long, and but six and one-half feet wide.

  • It is about eight feet long from the base of the horns to the tail, and stands five and one-half feet high.

  • One strong difference was noted, namely, a tide of six and a half feet at one end, and one and a half at the other.

  • Captain Speke, however, shot a serpent in Africa which measured fifty-one and a half feet in length.

  • When not fixed by vegetable growths, these dunes advance eastwards at a mean rate of about one rod, or sixteen and a half feet, a year.

  • C] Size of canvas: nine and one-half feet in length by six and one-quarter feet in height.

  • D] About six feet long by about three and one-half feet high.

  • E] Eight feet long by four and one-half feet high.

  • F] Four and one-half feet long by three feet high.

  • About two and one-half feet of fresh stable litter should be put into the frame and firmly packed, with an inch or two of sand spread over it.

  • This uniform gray colored Crane differs from the next species only in size, being about three feet in length, while the Sandhill averages three and one-half feet.

  • Single egg laid on the bare ground at end of a burrow three and one-half feet long.

  • This is a magnificent bird, about five and one-half feet in length.

  • Such as it was, however, a black woman brought it on her head, in a tray or trough two and a half feet long, where the men and women were promiscuously herded.

  • Footnote 14: A piece of oak timber two and a half feet long, flat and wide at one end.

  • This whip had a stout handle about two feet long, and a lash about four and a half feet.

  • May 3d, we found water at a depth of eight feet, and on the 6th had to dig through eight and a half feet.

  • The ice upon the fresh-water lakes where we encamped averaged about six and a half feet.

  • The roof has a pitch of 30 to 40° from a horizontal line, and broadly spread over the walls, say two and a half feet, showing the ends of the rafters, bracket fashion.

  • It should also be at least seven and a half feet high in the clear; and if it be even nine feet, that is not too much.

  • If the soil be a clay, or clayey loam, it should be underdrained two and a half feet, to be perfect, and the draining so planned as to lead off to a lower spot outside.

  • The formation of the uppermost one, the Greek layer of six and one-half feet required 1061.

  • The time required to cover the foundations of Troy to a depth of forty-six and one-half feet of debris must have been very long.

  • The jaws of this trap consist of two pieces of board three inches wide and about three and a half feet long, resting edgeways one on the other, held firmly by four posts driven in the ground.

  • A stout birch stick is cut about three or four feet long and lodged on a forked stick at each side of the door and about two and a half feet high.

  • They are about fifty-five feet high, by six and a half feet in diameter, and no Corinthian pillar of this colossal size would ever have been set up by the Greeks in their better days.

  • These doorways, made by a huge lintel, about seven and a half feet long, laid over an aperture in the building, with its edges very smoothly and carefully cut, are for the most part absolutely perfect.

  • In the rear half and on both sides of the door a bank of snow two and a half feet high is raised and cut off straight, a passage trench five feet wide and six feet long remaining.

  • The point is about one and one-third of a foot to one and one-half feet long.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    half acre; half acres; half aloud; half cents; half century; half cups; half degrees; half dollar; half dozen; half gallon; half inches; half leagues; half long; half mile; half minute; half ounce; half pints; half pounds; half speed; half thick; half wide; kill him; larger size; life unto; thus prepared; watched the