Example sentences of "than [art] [num] foot " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stood scowling down at her and Claudia wished she were taller than the five feet eight she had always thought just right . |
| 2 | On this day he was gliding home to our airfield and only just made it back with less than a hundred feet as he arrived flying downwind over the boundary . |
| 3 | The sea had become a green-black pool spread with foam less than a hundred feet in circumference in which Trent steered by instinct . |
| 4 | With the rain cutting visibiity to less than a hundred feet , it was as if they were trapped inside a glass tumbler the sides of which held at bay the blackness of the storm . |
| 5 | The hill that was waiting for me across the next two miles of nothingness was typical of those I had climbed that day — no more than a hundred feet high , with a gradual slope . |
| 6 | I will not suppose them guilty of a direct intention of striking us , particularly if they had any idea of the danger of such a proceeding , for the cliff rose much more than a hundred feet above us , and even a very small stone would have fatal effect by striking the head . |
| 7 | The plane , or the source of the dense column of smoke , was now less than a hundred feet above the water . |
| 8 | He swung that way , no more than a hundred feet above a path , watching forward for trees and obstructions . |
| 9 | One that is seventy feet high still stands ; another , more than a hundred feet long , larger than any Egyptian obelisk , lies broken on the ground . |
| 10 | The men were working on a maintenance gantry suspended beneath the bridge when the gantry collapsed throwing the men more than a hundred feet into the river below . |