Sentence examples for by about two feet from inspiring English sources

Given a similar chance early on when England batted, Doherty missed by about two feet, or about 60 centimeters.

Beamon's performance in Mexico City in 1968 would beat the winner in London, Greg Rutherford of Britain, by about two feet.

The show's sets were all raised by about two feet, so you'd stand on the studio floor waving these puppets in the air.

That was worrisome to Sellers: if even a tenth of the Greenland ice sheet were to fall into the Atlantic, it would raise average global sea levels by about two feet.

In the recent regional championships in Bristol, Conn., Fernando Frias, in the style of Babe Ruth, pointed to a camera atop the center-field scoreboard, then doubled to center, missing a home run by about two feet.

Ratcliffe competes in the hammer throw — track and field's medieval throwing event that requires a spinning technique to hurl a 4-kilogram (8.8-pound) ball-and-chain contraption out onto a triangular pitch — and was seeking to improve her personal best of 70.28 meters (230 feet, 7 inches) by about two feet to achieve the Olympic qualifying mark of 71 meters.

The dress also grows by about ten feet in height and catches on fire.

In addition, the younger Mr. Botsford said, "We lifted the house off the ground" by about four feet "to help the breeze flow around the house".

He said: "All I saw was these huge rocks coming down, going through a number of roofs, into the fields next to us, one bouncing off the top of the car by about five foot, so it was quite terrifying.

A human's entire spine, by comparison, is about two feet from top to bottom, not much longer than a giraffe's tongue.

However, in large cities like Chicago or New York, not everyone has a roof or backyard where you can install eight to ten solar panels (which may be about two feet by five feet in size).