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And for those of us that have an environmental element to us, there is something like 40 billion disposable batteries built every year for power that, generally speaking, is used within a few inches or a few feet of where there is very inexpensive power.
"They put me at 34 years younger and seven inches taller.
But when he got back home, he saw a miniature of the scaffolding, six inches high, on his study table.
It's about 36 inches wide and it's equipped with a multi-touch sensor.
If you are well-versed with inches, nine inches, centimeters, 16 [centimeters].
These little insects, it's the same ones we see out here [in India], two inches long, five centimeters long, flying in their millions, 400 miles across the ocean, at 2,000 meters up.
There is very high mortality in little baby reptiles who are just 10 to 12 inches long.
The sun end was about four inches in diameter, and then it tapered over about 35 feet to about a millimeter at the Earth end.
It's two and a half inches thick, and supported at two points.
So I was staring at this animal about six or seven inches away, and at that time I could actually focus that close; now as I look at my fuzzy fingers I realize those days are long gone.
So the average for most people is around 20 inches; business schools students, about half of that; lawyers, a little better, but not much better than that, kindergarteners, better than most adults.
Thirty-nine inches is the tallest structure I've seen.
A person can come in and take somebody else's gown, cut off three inches from the bottom, go to the E.U. and register it as a new, original design.
But, you know, here we see a shark that's maybe 10 or 11 inches long swimming in about a foot of water.
The booms are only about 13 inches in diameter.
It's about six inches deep in the wall, but it just appears like it's coming out of the wall.
It's about eight inches deep.
Incredibly, all of this can be communicated on just a few square inches of a screen.
And what kind of an alcoholic tends to drink with the bottle held about 8 inches from his hungry mouth so that the contents generally spill all over his face?
I'm sure the director would have preferred to have used footage of some really big crashing waves but the best he could find were a few inches high at some nearby lake, and again using a stationary camera.
These were the kids who wore Iron Maiden t-shirts to school, grew their hair long, had immature moustaches and were at least two inches taller than everyone else because they had flunked a grade or two.
When Cartman is superstitious of Kyle that he'll be stealing his gold(which of course is fake!), and he comes within inches of his face.
The split-second timing of the movements is just as carefully controlled as the scene where the side of a house falls on Keaton in 'Steamboat Bill Junior', and he is only not killed by inches.
Then we concoct a series of wildly improbable events and space them apart very widely, so that the plot inches along almost imperceptibly.
About ten minutes in, two chimpanzees are goofing around in Russo's kitchen and start throwing a butcher's knife back and forth (it misses Alan Cumming's head by inches); yet, no eyebrows are raised because it's all in a day's fun.
There is no good fight scenes at all, the punches are two inches away from a person.
Suitably grubby and over edited WONDERLAND gives Kilmer a role that channels Morrison at the same time....but how coy is this film about the famous 14 inches!
As soon as I saw how close to the faces the camera always was, I knew we were in the hands of an extremely amateur director--that's always a clear sign of them, they think it is arty or effective or intense to hold the camera about two inches away from the actors.
Sometime after midnight a car with lights off inches up the driveway.
While the film takes places two years after Holmes had fallen out of porn and into a truly wicked drug fueled depravity, Kilmer relentlessly exudes a sexuality so intense it can be measured in inches.
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