Sentence examples for one-third wider from inspiring English sources

At that time the lake was nearly one-third wider than it is today and almost 160 feet (50 metres) deep.

The designers of the moving sidewalk at Denver International Airport, constructed in the 1980's, made it one-third wider than most conventional conveyors, said Ms. Evans, who oversaw the construction.

The pelagic stingray has a very thick, distinctively wedge-shaped pectoral fin disc one-third wider than long, with broadly curved leading margins, rather angular outer corners, and nearly straight trailing margins.

In January 1997, when Nasdaq reform rules went into effect, the same spreads were one-third as wide -- 0.97 percent and 0.64percentt.

About one inch long and one-third inch wide, the strip is said to be virtually copy proof and the first such antifraud device for wine in the world.

One-third of the wide boulevard is dedicated to bicycles, and the whistle-wielding traffic police kept everyone in line.

Using a motorized blade known as a keratome, Dr. Seedor cut a circular flap around the cornea, about one-third of an inch wide and one-150th of an inch thick, and peeled it back.

The turbines would be arranged in a rectangle about a half-mile long by one-third of a mile wide and would be placed 16 to 20 miles off the coast of New Jersey's Atlantic and Ocean Counties, much farther out and in much deeper water than other proposed wind farms.

Cinerama, in motion pictures, a process in which three synchronized movie projectors each project one-third of the picture on a wide, curving screen.

AT two inches wide and one-third of an inch tall, a display ad shown on a smartphone isn't much of a canvas for a creative marketer seeking to promote a product or service.

Boslough persuasively argued, using computer simulations, that the asteroid that flattened the Tunguska forest in 1908 was only thirty to fifty metres wide — about one-third as massive as had been thought.