Example sentences of "[adj] foot [conj] [adv] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lithological units of 100 feet or less in the Permian of western Canada , have been shown to persist over areas up to 180 000 square miles . |
| 2 | So it goes on , with mentions of current ripples up to 10 feet and more in height , a gravel delta 200 square miles in area , the stripping off of the loess cover over an area of almost 2000 square miles and so on . |
| 3 | The congers were ugly-looking brutes , some of them three feet or more in length ; Pierre warned me they could bite through a sea-boot . |
| 4 | Nothing is known of his education or early years beyond the fact that from 1815 to 1817 he served as an ensign in the 27th Foot and subsequently in the 91st Foot , from which he was obliged to retire on account of ill health in 1821 . |
| 5 | Malpass had made it across the street , about eighty feet or so in front of Armstrong . |
| 6 | We camped on the edge of the moorland among magnificent red-tasselled hagenia trees and clumps of yellow flowering St John 's wort ; above us the mountain was covered with giant heath ten feet and more in height . |
| 7 | A line of watchfires stretched away into the night , the nearest heaped into a massive cone , twelve feet or more in height , furiously ablaze , devouring the chill moisture from the night air . |