Sentence examples for a dollar an inch from inspiring English sources

Whale herds remind Ishmael of the buffalo that "not forty years ago, overspread by tens of thousands the prairies of Illinois... where now the polite broker sells you land at a dollar an inch".

A dollar a course?

A dollar a year?

The cost of snow removal varies from around ten thousand dollars an inch to two hundred thousand dollars an inch, depending on whether the snow is packed or ice, sticky or fresh.

The rule of thumb, I was told, is "a thousand dollars an inch" — meaning that the small screen in the back of each economy seat can cost an airline ten thousand dollars, plus a few thousand for its handheld controller.

In his dealings with an addled widow seeking to place an obituary and a picture of her husband in the next day's paper, the trade-off between life and art, writing and commerce is reduced to a nice round figure: a hundred dollars for a column inch.

The remote is about the same length as a dollar bill and about a half inch thick in the center.

A dollar bill is about six inches long.

About 90% of his business is wholesale; ten dollars for a ten inch cake.

Cut strips of clear tape about an inch (2.5cm) longer than a dollar bill or pound note.

To approximate a tumble through the silent cosmos, the actors were photographed with specially designed robotic cameras that would race at 25 miles per hour to within an inch of a multimillion-dollar nose.