Sentence examples for third as wide from inspiring English sources

Schmidt spotted several large rocks about a metre long and a third as wide.

Until about 20 years ago, if you could find Lisianthus at all, you could count on it to be two to three feet tall and a third as wide, with single pale purple flowers.

That means that you can easily parallel-park two Fortwos in any curb space that's long enough to fit a single Lincoln Navigator L — or perpendicular-park three of them, since the Fortwo is less than a third as wide as the Navigator is long, and is so short that it doesn't stick out into traffic when docked nose in.

The components in Intel's 4004, the first microprocessor, were 10,000 nanometres wide, about a tenth as wide as a human hair.

The Lucent microscope shoots a narrow beam of high-energy electrons through a very thin sheet of silicon -- about one one-thousandth as wide as a human hair -- and looks at how the electrons are deflected.

She puts her feet to the ground and faces her husband, then makes the dramatic gesture of raising her arms and fanning them open for a second, as wide as a trellis, before they close around him.

Mounted on a computer's magnetic recording head, the NFT can focus a laser beam inside an area less than 75 nanometers in diameter, or one-tenth as wide as the narrowest conventional laser beam.

But now, using Earth-based telescopes that can observe the moon in wavelength bands approximately one-fortieth as wide as Galileo's, researchers have spotted the spectral signature of magnesium sulfate on Europa's trailing hemisphere, they report online today in The Astronomical Journal.

Each rocket is about 10 nanometers long, about a thousandth as wide as a human hair.

The pectoral fin disc of the bluespotted ribbontail ray is oval in shape, around four-fifths as wide as long, with a rounded to broadly angular snout.

Your folded piece of paper should be one-fourth as wide as it would normally be.