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Example sentences for "inch and"

  • At the lower end of each box in front, there must be an aperture, or door, about an inch and an half wide, and as high as is necessary for the bees to pass without obstruction.

  • This evil may in a great measure be prevented by having a small cross of iron welded on the poker, immediately above the square part, about an inch and a half each way.

  • In the latter case, half a pint more milk must be added, and the batter should be an inch and a quarter in thickness.

  • In some few places the pavement had sunk in, but in general it was undisturbed, consisting of large irregular flags of lava joined neatly together, in which the carriage wheels have often worn ruts an inch and a half deep.

  • Arrange some bits of celery, an inch and a half in length and curled on one end, about the salad, with a bit of yolk of egg in the centre of each.

  • Cut small rounds of bread an inch and a half in diameter and an inch in thickness; remove a crumb, similar in shape to the olive, from the centre of each.

  • Cut the bread in pieces about four inches long and an inch and a half wide.

  • A fourth moult takes place in seven or eight days, and when the caterpillars are about an inch and a half in length.

  • It is as flat and elastic as an ivory paper-cutter, and the lower mandible, differently from every other bird, is an inch and a half longer than the upper.

  • One was placed on the horizontal branch of a chestnut-tree, with a solitary green leaf, forming a complete canopy, about an inch and a half above it.

  • An oblique incision from an inch and a half to two inches in length should be made in the left iliac region above Poupart's ligament, extending a little above the anterior-superior spinous process of the ilium.

  • The amount of the femur which will require removal will in the adult vary from an inch to an inch and a half or even more.

  • The cornea was completely anesthetic, and the right cheek, an inch and a half external to the angle of the nose, presented a small patch of anesthesia.

  • On this may be seen a cake of salt and lime an inch and a half thick.

  • As the fresh hair grows through this, the twine process is repeated, until at last a compact substance is formed, an inch and a half thick, trained into the form of a helmet, with a frontlet and crest of copper.

  • Livingstone discovered one large salt pan with a deposit of salt an inch and a half in thickness.

  • The seed of the durian is roughly cordate, about an inch and a quarter long.

  • This branch generally arises at a point an inch and half or two inches below the fold of the groin; and between it and the epigastric above, the main artery is named common femoral.

  • The prostate is situated at a distance of about an inch and a half or two inches from the anus--the distance varying according to whether the bladder and bowel be distended or not.

  • From the femoral ring the canal extends down the thigh for an inch and a-half or two inches in a tapering form, supported by the pectineus muscle, and covered by the iliac part of the fascia lata.

  • The largest was two inches long, and the smallest one only an inch and a quarter.

  • They were about an inch and a half thick, soft, and of even breadth.

  • Long grass, known as cutting-grass between four and five feet high, the blade an inch and a half broad, the edges exquisitely sharp.

  • The fruit, which is an inch and a half in diameter, and almost globular, yields an agreeable beverage from its acid juice.

  • The Scorpion was a despatch boat of the gunboat pattern, with a displacement of six hundred tons, and a rapid-firing battery of four 5-inch and six 6-pounders.

  • Her armament consisted of a main battery of four 13-inch and eight 8-inch guns and four 6-inch slow-fire guns.

  • When they came back they said there were fifteen inches of water in the measuring tube, which, in the receiver, would be an inch and a half.

  • Does that mean," asked Susie, "that if the rain had stayed on the ground it would be an inch and a half deep all over?

  • It would look just like a lake if it was an inch and a half deep all over the ground.

  • Each of these strips is cut into two L-shaped pieces, an inch and a half in width, with the shorter leg of each L three inches long.

  • When the four pieces are put together a scarf joint is made near each corner, having an inch and one-half lap.

  • Above this, and over the gasket, is placed a single thickness of cotton cloth, of the same dimensions as the gasket, and yet above this are strips of ordinary strap iron, an inch and a half wide and nearly one eighth of an inch thick.

  • This is perhaps the little shrew-mouse of the woods, the body not more than an inch and a half long, the smallest mole or mouse kind known to me.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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