Sentence examples for widen by two from inspiring English sources

Crumbling ice might obliterate a rope line, or a crevasse might widen by two or three ladder lengths in just a few hours.

The commercial use of coated strip has been widened by two additional bath compositions.

Highway 402 was widened in the Sarnia area from four to six lanes due to extensive traffic backups from the bridge crossing towards the USA; the westbound lanes were widened by two lanes, while eastbound capacity remains unchanged.

In another month, environmental work will begin on the 405 Freeway, which will be widened by two lanes in each direction along a 13-mile stretch from Costa Mesa to Long Beach.

Hogan's lead over Jealous has widened by eight percentage points since the previous Post-U-Md.

But if one lane of traffic were removed from Lexington Avenue, each sidewalk could be widened by five feet.

The flanks were under-used, even though the pitch had been widened by five yards compared with its usual size for Dynamo games.

The Third Avenue section from 42nd to 51st St. is being widened by five feet on each side, and the old trolley tracks are being pulled up and scrapped.

The premium investors demand to hold 10-year Irish government bonds rather than euro-zone benchmark German Bunds widened by five basis points Tuesday to hit a euro record of 475 basis points before easing back to 468.

In 2000 that spread widened by three to four percentage points, a harbinger of both a broad tumble in stock prices and an economic contraction.

To give the trucks more grip, the tires were widened by one inch to eleven.