Sentence examples for boat length from inspiring English sources

I glided backward about seven yards, the equivalent of a boat length.

After about six minutes, Prada had nosed ahead by a boat length.

After a few hundred metres, Brennan had a boat length on her nearest competitor.

When they converged near the middle of the run, OneWorld was only a boat length behind.

No crew in the country has come within a boat length of Harvard.

Harvard cut Princeton's lead near the end, but still lost by half a boat length.

Cambridge was fifth yesterday, behind the Canadian collegiate champion, the University of Victoria in British Columbia, and a quarter-boat length ahead of Princeton's lightweight varsity.

By 1,500 meters Princeton had gone to a boat-length advantage on Penn.

Oxford moved past Washington for a half-boat-length advantage 50 strokes from the finish.

Barely a boat-length away, smooth jet-black bodies break the surface like submarines then dive beneath Hummingbird.

Penn had a boat-length lead on Princeton at the 1,000-meter 1,000-meter 2,000-markr cofrse.