Example sentences of "[num] [prep] [art] [noun] in diameter " in BNC.
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1 | A genuine one always has three tiny depressions one-quarter of an inch in diameter close to the centre-hole . |
2 | The eggs are usually laid in the evening or early morning , in a salmon-pink mass , about two to three inches long and half to three-quarters of an inch in diameter . |
3 | First , there are tiny particles a few tenths of a micron in diameter ( 1 micron = 10 -6 metres ) . |
4 | Cells can not normally be seen without a microscope , being about one-thousandth of a millimetre in diameter . |
5 | THE world 's smallest motor , an electromagnetic micromachine 31 thousandths of an inch in diameter , has been made in Japan . |
6 | The groove was very coarse , and was played with a sapphire 32-thousandths of an inch in diameter . |