Sentence examples for one foot thick from inspiring English sources

Since 2008, an average annual volume of approximately 5,230 cubic yards of "green waste" were composted — enough leaves and trimmings to create a one foot thick cover for nearly three acres.

If we assume a 40-foot concrete wall, one foot thick, a 6-foot section would weigh about 36,000 pounds (assuming a per-square-foot weight of 150 pounds).

Each segment was six feet wide and one foot thick, and weighed around fifteen thousand pounds.

A 1,000-mile 1,000-miles 50 feet tall wall 15 feethatderground and one-foot thick would require 9.7 million cubic meters of concrete and 2.3 billion kilograms of (presumably American) steel.

I have a one-foot-thick file," said Mr. Knox, who acquired the car in 2002.

We sat on ice benches, once again insulated with deer pelts, where we studied our hands through the one-foot-thick lens of an ice-block table.

To support the Stern Auditorium permanently, a canted, elliptical one-foot-thick concrete wall was built that also serves as an egglike shell around Zankel Hall.

The back wall, by contrast, is made of one-foot-thick poured-in-place concrete, both to absorb radiation from the X-ray machine and to protect the site's perimeter.

She closed her eyes for a moment, then opened them again, ka-thick ka-thick ka-thick, putting one foot in front of the other on the solid-seeming floor.

He also leads gruelling expeditions like this one – a 17-day journey by boat and on foot into thick Amazon jungle – which also demands a strong stomach.

The public laws forbid a greater thickness than one foot and a half to be given to walls that abut on a public way, and the other walls, to prevent loss of room, are not built thicker.