Example sentences of "a good [adj] feet " in BNC.
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| 1 | By digging his heels into the rocks he was able to lunge a good six feet nearer the home bank . |
| 2 | The top of the sandy bank was a good six feet above the water . |
| 3 | The tidal variation of the Pacific on the south side , however , is most impressive — a good 18 feet under normal circumstances , more than 20 feet at springs . |
| 4 | There was a heavy spate a week or two later and the river rose a good five feet higher than normal . |
| 5 | An iron ladder descends this accidental chasm from the nave roof , but it stops a good fifteen feet above the moss-feather-and-shit-covered earth . |
| 6 | Which he did , a good two feet clear of the gaping open ditch which lay on the blind side of the hedge . |
| 7 | It rose , a good eight feet in height , a shimmering energy body pulsating with pure malignant evil . |
| 8 | To keep prisoners so near to a frontier on the far side of which they would be free , could seem a casual or risky policy , but it is hard to imagine anyone actually escaping from Le Portalet , whose grated windows you can see from the road , with a nasty drop of a good 100 feet straight on to the rocks beneath them . |
| 9 | Stretching for a good twelve feet it read in red on white THE GREAT TRANSCONTINENTAL MYSTERY RACE TRAIN , and in blue letters a good deal smaller underneath , THE ONTARIO JOCKEY CLUB , MERRY & CO AND VIA RAIL PRESENT A CELEBRATION OF CANADIAN RACING . |
| 10 | Mauléon also has a rather wonderful Renaissance chateau in the centre of the town , with a roof to remember , a good thirty feet high and pitched at an angle of 75 degrees . |
| 11 | Rindi , whose crew possessed only pressurized paraffin-lamps , asked to borrow our torch , and revealed with it a patch of silt floor a good thirty feet further down , as untrammelled as the bottom of the deep ocean trenches — except for the unmistakable tyre-tracks of several large pythons . |
| 12 | But , on reaching it , it proved to be a good twenty feet taller than it appeared , for it grew from the floor of a protective circular sinkhole , perhaps forty yards across , and with vertical walls about twenty feet deep fringed by tangled thorny-vines and spider 's webs . |
| 13 | He looked back at the light coming from the observatory cupboard , now a good twenty feet away , and thought about going back ; this whole prank was becoming a bit much , really . |
| 14 | He went over to the bed , lifted up the skirts and the separate bodice and draped them over his arm , pushing Meredith in front of the ornate Venetian gilt mirror complete with cherubs and vine leaves that occupied a good twenty feet of wall space . |
| 15 | Larsen was already a good twenty feet clear of the ground and making steady progress as he inched his way upwards . |