Sentence examples for a length or two from inspiring English sources
"I think we are in their way," he said, backing the van a length or two.
After a few seconds they took their seats again and we saw my father-in-law's horse, Able One, in second place, a length or two behind the leader, Flying Blue.
Ward said that for Monarchos to get to Belmont with an opportunity to become the 12th horse to sweep the Triple Crown, and the first since Affirmed in 1978, Chavez would have to turn for home within a length or two of the leader.
A length or two might have been all right with me".
"I turn around, I walked a little distance, maybe a car length or two.
From then on, there often appear to be two separate events taking place in the pool — seven vigorous young women racing furiously against one another, and a languid, contemplative eighth person, her strokes slow and long, a body length or two ahead of everybody else.
Forza always came within a car length or two, but never quite overtook GT.
Detective Cooper and Lieutenant Napoli drove past the Altima by a car's length or two.
Horses and cows and even the occasional llama, grazing just an arm's length or two from the roadside, nosed up close to me behind their fences and shied away when I stopped to say hello.
Turn off the car and wait until you can actually drive forward an entire car length or two before turning it back on to pull up.
Sounds obvious, but most drivers are zoned out in their own little worlds, paying little attention to what's going on, even a car-length or two ahead of them.
