1.   That wound had been inflicted with an instrument with a blade perhaps an inch wide.

2.   A large stainless-steel colander with holes one-eighth inch to one-quarter inch wide can be used.

3.   A tack strip is a strip of wood about an inch wide with the pointed ends of tacks sticking up through it at a slight angle.

4.   By manipulating a tiny, electrically charged stylus, Gimzewski has built an abacus of carbon molecules one ten-millionth of an inch wide.

5.   Cells can be aspirated through a needle that is one-fiftieth of an inch wide, with an opening the width of a human hair.

6.   Cut along the length into thin strips about inch wide.

7.   Each reflector is a glassy checkerboard of silica cubes a little more than an inch wide.

8.   His face was dirty and his pants, cinched tight with rope, were several inches too wide in the waist.

9.   It should be about an eighth of an inch wide from top to bottom.

10.   Last week he said that some of them were more than an inch wide.