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inch

noun as in one-twelfth of a foot/2.54 centimeters measured

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Burnaby was tall—6 feet 4 inches—and many said he was the strongest man in the British Army, capable of carrying a pony under each arm.

There really are duck-sized horses, with this therapy horse at just 21 inches high.

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The National Weather Service said the coastal storm could bring five to eight inches of snow to interior portions of the region.

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German inflation climbed in November, despite French inflation holding steady and inflation in Spain and Italy inching lower.

Like the men on the line, I pulled on white cotton gloves and, as the machine inched forward, began lifting watermelons from the ground, up onto the table above me where the packers waited.

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