Example sentences of "[adj] foot or [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Malpass had made it across the street , about eighty feet or so in front of Armstrong . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Furthermore , people vary in their tolerance from day to day , and it is not safe to assume that because you have been to 15,000 feet or so without oxygen before , you will be able to do it again . |
| 5 | The world No 1 carded four birdies , three consecutively on the back nine , having earlier missed four putts of seven feet or less for birdies . |