Example sentences of "[pers pn] is [adj] feet " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( My red-tailed buzzard , on the other hand , can drag a fully grown rabbit in her claws , but then she is two feet tall and weighs 3 pounds or more , nearly four times Dawn 's weight . ) |
| 2 | Built in 1814 , it is 72 feet high , and is often said to be the tallest windmill in the country , though that honour properly belongs to a tower mill at Sutton ( q.v. ) in Norfolk . |
| 3 | It is 468 feet long and 275 feet wide ; the nave vault of 150 feet is nearly the height of Beauvais and this is a complete building . |
| 4 | The central one is larger than the others ; it is 42 feet in diameter and the other four are each 33 feet . |
| 5 | The abbey church is a magnificent example of these domed churches ; it is 275 feet long . |
| 6 | It is 430 feet deep . |
| 7 | It is 281 feet long and weighs nearly I , 500 tons . |
| 8 | It is 640 feet long and is supported on 5 masonry arches . |
| 9 | It is 252 feet high in contrast to the older Tour de Romaine on the other side of the façade and is called the Tour de Beurre because money was provided for its erection from payments for dispensations given permitting consumption of butter during Lent ( 471 ) . |
| 10 | It is 157 feet high and the amphitheatre from wall to wall is 620 by 513 feet , the largest in existence . |
| 11 | In wild , rocky countryside , it is 650 feet long , with a level roadway throughout , over six arches in granite blocks superbly laid without mortar . |
| 12 | Billy Graham was using an adjustable lectern twenty-five years ago ; ( he needed to , since he is six feet four and some of his colleagues are a foot shorter . ) |