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• "Don't move an inch!"
• Beldame, I think we watched you at an inch.
• Fearful of falling, he inched along the window ledge.
• The window blind had been lowered — Zooey had done all his bathtub reading by the light from the three-bulb overhead fixture—but a fraction of morning light inched under the blind and onto the title page of the manuscript.
• Already guarding a 1-0 lead from the first leg, Blackpool inched further ahead when Stephen Dobbie scored from an acute angle on the stroke of half-time. The game appeared to be completely beyond Birmingham’s reach three minutes into the second period when Matt Phillips reacted quickly to bundle the ball past Colin Doyle and off a post.
• He gets too far into the soldier's grace / And inches out my master.
• The blackening wave is edged with white; / To inch and rock the sea-mews fly.
• 1 inch = 2,54 centimètres.