Sentence examples for size of a lock from inspiring English sources

Lomu was a wing, but he was 6ft 4in tall and 19st, the size of a lock forward, and a week earlier he had reduced Will Carling's England side to rubble in a semi-final win in Cape Town.

Or you could invest in "possibly the smallest house in the world", barely the size of a lock-up garage, in a street in north London.

With a brain the size of a planet locked in a body that has cheated him of movement and speech, and with appearances on television shows including "Star Trek" and "The Simpsons," he has captured the imagination of masses of people who often have little idea what his research is about.

The operation was always restricted by the size of Keadby Lock, although vessels longer than the lock could pass through when the river was level with the canal and both sets of gates could be opened.

There's no one drill-bit that'll be better than others, because you want to match it to the size of the lock.

"My own personal research shows that it takes a magnet the size of a bagel to get the locks open," he said.

A camera lowered into the void revealed a cinder block room, the size of a small tenement apartment, with bookcases, rubble and a locked door.

The UK Self-Storage Asaysiation says more than 350 specialist companies now operate and there are now more than 800 self-storage facilities across Britain serving some 250,000 customers; renting 20-50sq ft of lock-up storage (the size of a garden shed) can cost well over £100 a month in central London, half that or less elsewhere.

Locked in a seed the size of a speck is all the mystery of the universe.

The Industrial Canal lock, for instance, is half the size of a modern one, which means that barges transiting in convoy need to be broken up.

He is locked up in a cell the size of a walk-in closet.