half-inch

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The windows regularly lower a half-inch or so when the door is opened to allow for less compression when the doors are being shut.

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  • The JVC TH-SB100 is a 3. 1-channel system incorporating a fully BD-Live compatible Blu-ray player, AVCHD playback, 30 watts per channel, left and right speakers featuring three-inch woofers and half-inch tweeters and a central three-inch woofer, plus an eight-inch subwoofer delivering 100W. —  HDTV UK
  • "Just a half-inch higher and he doesn't have a normal life anymore," his father, Mike Wallace, said. —  chron.com Chronicle
  • This discomfort was compounded by the strange things they called pillows, bags filled literally with half-inch pieces of drinking straws. —  TravelPod.com Recent Updates
  • A half-inch-diameter bullet through the skull doesn't leave much, so while I felt bad about the mashed nads, at least he didn't feel the pain for very long. —  McGeheeZone.com
  • Following sleet and freezing rain in the morning, nearly three-quarters of an inch of rain poured down between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. President Franklin D. Roosevelt rode back to the White House in an open car, which accumulated a half-inch of water on the floor by the time he arrived to watch the parade slog by. —  News for InsideNova.com
 

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