Example sentences of "five inches " in BNC.
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| 1 | ONCE again baseless charges of lewdness and indecency in this column make it impossible for me to report the following headline in the newsletter of Wolverhampton and Dudley Breweries : ‘ What 's Five Inches Long — and Worth £200 ? ’ |
| 2 | Six feet five inches ( 1.9 metres ) tall , left-handed , bespectacled , with a loose , ambling walk that always seemed so relaxed , he wielded a three-pound ( 1.35-kilo ) bat with enormous strength and delighted in sending the ball vast distances . |
| 3 | A twig insect just four or five inches from his clenching face moved the length of its own body and then stiffened , a tiny creature in prayer . |
| 4 | SIR — With the present water crisis in the South-East , perhaps it would be helpful to adopt the war-time restriction on baths of no more than five inches of water . |
| 5 | Five inches of snow fell through the night . |
| 6 | On the basis that it had continued thus , the blade would have had a total length of about five inches . ’ |
| 7 | His one remarkable feature was his height , six feet and five inches . |
| 8 | It was eight feet and two inches long and the sword measured two feet and five inches . |
| 9 | Some of the Scourie trout , released into small lochs as tiny fish , have grown to enormous size and are known affectionately by name : Ethel , stocked by Stan Tuer when she was a modest girl of five inches , now estimated to weigh at least 5lb ; Arthur , estimated to weigh 6lb . |
| 10 | Each letter was some twenty-four inches high and five inches in thickness and styled in a very ugly heavy block which although perhaps in vogue from 1860 to 1880 was distinctly outmoded by 1920 . |
| 11 | In front of the door was the only tap in the house , over a plain earthenware sink about five inches in depth from which the water went into a drain underneath . |
| 12 | It is five inches in diameter and single-sided , and comprises ‘ The Lord 's Prayer ’ . |
| 13 | She was tall , only five inches less than his own six foot one . |
| 14 | He was five feet five inches tall and just as wide , with a face that resembled the rough end of an oak beam . |
| 15 | Has survived his tallness ( six feet five inches ) and his angularity . |
| 16 | In actual fact 90 per cent of penises range from three to five inches in length , but dimensions change with prevailing conditions . |
| 17 | The blue Daimler slowly disgorged its occupant , whose unfolded height was five inches greater than Constable Rennie 's own . |
| 18 | A glass pitcher on a wooden divider had moved five inches . |
| 19 | Sean looked at him in disbelief : the huge spongy soles making him four or five inches taller than he really was , the hair slicked into waves with some filthy oil , his narrow tie and huge , mauve-coloured jacket . |
| 20 | The pot went again to Halema , who pulled up her skirt , revealing blue pantaloons trimmed with four or five inches of the requisite silver and gold thread at the ankle . |
| 21 | Latex barriers were originally developed for use in dental surgery ( hence their other name ‘ dental dams ’ ) and are sheets of thin rubber around five inches square . |
| 22 | Only five inches of water was allowed for baths . |
| 23 | The man who climbed out of the freight car was at least six feet five inches high , a couple of inches taller than the other man , with a horrendously scarred face and a dyed blond pigtail dangling grotesquely from the back of an otherwise shaven head . |
| 24 | They are large animals with glossy rounded shells five inches across . |
| 25 | Whereas for me the rigours of the Second World War meant two ounces of butter a week and five inches of bath-water , for Jean-Claude they had involved near-starvation on a diet of turnips — and the dangers of being on the run . |
| 26 | It was about five inches long when I bought it a month ago , and now it is approaching 10 inches . |
| 27 | The Discus are about 15 months old and about four to five inches long . |
| 28 | decide well we 'll have five inches . |
| 29 | It ranged from er about eighteen foot long , sixteen to eighteen foot long , er twelve inches wide and five inches thick , and we was taught how to be able to handle these by balance . |
| 30 | The nozzle is still four or five inches short of target when the spider vanishes with a quick shushhh and a sickening thud from the body of the cleaner . |