Sentence examples for three or four lengths from inspiring English sources

"We lost ground on every turn last year, it seemed like he had to lose maybe three or four lengths in the race.

I think if Lester had been riding him at that time, he would have been winning by just three or four lengths and it might have kept him going that bit longer.

By the time he did come out, he was two or three lengths behind a wall of straining horses.

Oxford are trying to keep the gap to four or five lengths as the boats pass under Barnes Bridge.

"I don't think this is a year with a standout that might win four or five lengths.

She thinks to skip but after ten or eleven lengths her lungs chug and backfire on the cold air.

He broke five or six lengths behind his stablemate, drew even on the far turn and blew past him in the homestretch.

We raced all the time, and I used to wax the floor with him — beat him by seven or eight lengths.

The first hour was hardly out before that had been extended to four or five lengths, which, translated, was a first-innings lead of 122.

"He's not a flashy horse, he's not going to come here and win six or seven lengths, even if he could [but] Ryan [Moore, his jockey] was happy with him all the way.

"He worked this morning with Countermeasure, his normal lead horse," Roger Charlton, his trainer, told Racing UK. "Every time he's worked this year, he's moved up on the bridle and then quickens four or five lengths clear.