Sentences with phrase «around a foot shorter»

This was never really an issue for me: My adoptive parents — both of whom are around a foot shorter — gave me all the love any child requires.

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The average American woman, standing at just over 5 feet 3 inches tall, is around five and a half inches shorter than the average American man.

In its new office, just opened in January, the 14 - year - old LiquidAgents Healthcare, which places nurses for short - term contracts in hospitals around the country, boasts almost 29,000 square feet of open - plan office space.

I discarded the idea of a simple tossed salad as too boring, but my other ideas (Marinated Tomato Salad with Arugula and Feta and Tomato Arugula Salad with Quinoa) revolved around ripe tomatoes, which are obviously in short supply when the snow is a couple of feet deep.

Newcastle returns to its normal, cool style; a fullback dribbles the ball 15 or 20 yards, then slips a short pass to a halfback, who carries a few yards and passes to another halfback, who rips a curving, spinning drive around a defender and spang on the foot of a forward.

His inexplicable woes with the short stick continued, however, as he missed some shots around 10 feet and under — putts he used to be able to make in his sleep.

When we adjusted the seat to the tallest height, Ezra's feet were perfectly positioned flat on the ground so he could move around appropriately, but it would definitely fit a shorter and younger baby too.

When we spend most of our time with children under 4 feet tall, SAHMs do tend to talk in shorter sentences and have limited topics to talk about — we're not exactly spending our time watching the latest news on CNN or sitting around memorizing the Oxford English Dictionary for fun.

Made of an elastic material, the suit is deliberately cut too short for the wearer, and has stirrups that wrap around the feet so that it stretches when the wearer puts it on.

In the early 1970s the 300 - foot was upgraded to work at wavelengths as short as 6 cm, and a dual - beam 6 cm receiver was built for it around 1972.

They fit very similarly, but an xs petite had just a little more room for me to move around in, and about an inch longer in length (note: both sizes were a shorter «mini» length on me, and I'm under 5 feet tall).

Hunter Original Refined Short Gloss features a shiny Gloss finish, slim leg fit, wrap around strap, hand crafted, 3 mm moulded foot bed, waterproof rubber construction, pull on design, breathable textile lining, and the Hunter branding moulded on the front of the boot.

You've seen the shorter style — the Penny — around here often and they still wind up on my feet all the time.

All black doesn't have to be hot, this sheer top and shorts were really breezy in the hot summer air and my feet couldn't have been happier from a day walking around in NYC.

He is a socially awkward genius with a glass eye and a bad haircut who habitually listens to heavy metal, uses drumsticks, and goes around in a t - shirt, khaki shorts, and bare feet at work.

Anderson himself starred in the amusing short and is seen sashaying around a movie set as toadying flunkies fall at his feet so that he may personally anoint their creative proposals.

At 164.5 inches long, 72.1 inches wide, and 3131 pounds in mass, the T - ROC is nearly a foot shorter and around 300 pounds lighter than a Tiguan crossover.

Jeep claims it produces up to 290 horsepower and 260 pound feet of torque, but it felt short of that while driving around town in terms of pick up and passing power.

The new 2012 Corvette Z06 stopped 4 feet shorter than the 911 GT3 RS, was a half a second faster around the figure 8 track than the GT - R, and the Z06 pulled more than a full 0.1 g over the Ferrari 458.

Audi says the new A6 has a turning radius that's 3.6 feet (1.1 meters) shorter, requiring 36.4 feet (11.1 meters) to turn around.

Designed by Troy, Mich. - based Delphi Automotive Systems, Quadrasteer lets the GMC pickup turn around in roughly the space required by a Saturn coupe — a compact car that's 4 feet shorter and nearly a foot narrower.

I like this specific one because it is six feet long, which gives me room to move the Kindle around without feeling squeezed due to a short cable.

Firstly the Frito smell from the feet is a common problem and is caused by yeast and bacteria in the same way people get body odor; the best defence against this is to keep the hair around the paws short (for air flow) and to wash regularly with a pet shampoo.

Admitedly, the dewclaws, if not kept cut short, can grow around and grow right into the side of the foot or foot pad, which is a very painful and needless thing.

This only took a short 10 minutes and then we got to descend as low as 500 feet around the reef.

Unfortunately, for the Switch this distance is far shorter than with other systems, meaning by the time you're around 8 feet away you're risking having some issues with temperamental controls.

Titans can't take their feet off the ground, they only skate around the battlefield in short bursts.

The artworks were printed on aluminum and bronze plaques and their short messages were accompanied by paintings of Peter Nadin, whose portraits of people attached to Holzer's messages emphasized the emptiness of both life and communication in the digital age.The multimedia extravaganzas of Holzer's later installations, such as the 1989 Guggenheim exhibition, are exemplified by a 535 - foot running electronic signboard spiraled around the core of Frank Lloyd Wright's architecture, flashing garish lights on the monumental stone benches arranged in a large circle on the floor below.

Gleick testified that Pacific Institute work on urban and agricultural water efficiency show that existing, cost - effective technologies and policies can reduce state demand for water by 6 - 8 million acre - feet, or around 20 percent, findings that have been adopted in the California Water Plan, and new work details effective solutions in conservation and efficiency that can save one million acre feet of water in the shorter term.

We were in the midst of researching about global warming and meanwhile we're at 8000 feet in Park City, Utah, and people are walking around in sandals and shorts in January.

The left speaker draws power and sources audio through the included speaker wire, which is relatively short at just around six feet long, but more than enough for our purposes.

And second, it has an extremely short range, around 15 to 20 feet and even shorter in case of the X10 (more on this below).

The cables can be routed through the right stand leg to hide the cables, though be aware that this will shorter the available length of the power cord to around a foot in length.