1.   A custom-tailoring service uses light rays rather than a measuring tape to size up customers.

2.   A metal measuring tape makes an intriguing hum, and thrashes like a willful serpent.

3.   But the Levi system was cumbersome, requiring women to try on several pairs of stock jeans with built-in measuring tapes.

4.   By the same token, some owners of the originals are not at all interested in having woodworkers pawing over their treasures with measuring tapes.

5.   Computers read the reflected light rays and, if all goes well, take more accurate measurements than an old-fashioned measuring tape.

6.   The young lady stands up and produces a measuring tape from her handbag.

7.   Archived films in Cambodia were destroyed, left to rot or used like measuring tape.

8.   Feminists regularly decry this tyranny of the measuring tape, and are just as regularly dismissed as cranks.