Example sentences of "foot or [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They no longer strike you however quite as ramparts because they have been planted with grass and shrubs and are in places penetrable on foot or even by traffic ; they are now a pleasance more than a deterrent . |
| 2 | One thing you will notice at times when you are watching the barbel is the extraordinary way they flip belly-upwards to take food that is more than a foot or so off bottom . |
| 3 | To get what they need , they cut down saplings and even trees with trunks a foot or so in diameter , gnawing through the wood with their chisel teeth . |
| 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 | Taff was blown to pieces in his trench earlier this evening , probably thinking he was safe a couple of feet or so below ground . |
| 6 | Malpass had made it across the street , about eighty feet or so in front of Armstrong . |
| 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |