The phrase "a overall height of" is not correct; it should be "an overall height of." You can use it when describing the total height of an object or structure.
Example: "The building has an overall height of 150 meters."
Alternatives: "a total height of" or "an aggregate height of."
In 2007 Kim et al. (2010) tested a T-shaped girder having an overall height of 0.6 m and a clear length of 6.0 m simply supported by thin rubber pads.
In time this edifice will be joined by several more to form another dense thicket of steely trunks and glassy leaves up-thrusting from the urban jungle, but for now number One stands proud of lower Manhattan's concrete canopy - all 104 storeys of it, that plus a telecommunications mast gives an overall height of 1,776 ft and makes it the tallest structure in the Western Hemisphere.
Your June 30 editorial about the Freedom Tower says the design "still incorporates a meaningless numerical coincidence -- an overall height of 1,776 feet at the top of the antenna".
The whole scan area is shown with a vertical color scale from dark brown to white corresponding to an overall height of 8 nm and indicating a homogeneous lipid bilayer with coexisting domains in lo (liquid-ordered) and ld (liquid-disordered domain) phase.
It is a 15-story model with a long side and a short side of 5.07 m × 1.23 m respectively, and an overall height of 4.6 m.
The whole scan area is shown with a vertical color scale from dark brown to white corresponding to an overall height of 8 nm.
There are five cascades with an overall height of 650 feet (200 m); best known are Upper and Lower Reichenbach Falls, with a drop of about 300 feet (90 m).
As well as holding the record for the tallest moving observation tower, with an overall height of 162m, it also holds the record for the world's most slender tower, with a diameter of 3.9 metres at its widest point.
