They will be four inches shorter (to allow for the width of the posts) than the section length.
When the road was built, there were no federal standards for the width of lanes.
But for the width of the seam on a cricket ball, Gayle could have been out off the first ball he faced.
Indeed but for the width of the crossbar and Stefan Postma smothering at the feet of Rooney the margin of victory would have been greater.
It is also difficult to overstate how much Bath are missing the absent Mike Catt, both for the width of his passing and the breadth of his vision.
The group, which includes the Mets' Aaron Heilman, is expected to talk about the need for strict specifications for the width of bat handles.
Across the town of Goldsboro, like many other places in a country once famous for the width of its wealth, America's middle class is struggling.
Ahh, but for the width of a crossbar in Melbourne, there go I. Blues No10 Chris Noakes picked a bad time to put in a dud show.
"And there's a minimum dimension of eight feet that you need for the width of your bedroom," he said.
Wale is the rather pleasing term for the width of the cord (as measured by the number per inch) – and I will be sticking to higher wale counts, ie thinner cords.
Racers routinely ignored the regulations but now every Olympic competitor is tested near the finish line for ski length, plate and boot height and sometimes for the width of their ski's center.
