Thirty-year bonds, four and three-eighths percent.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 28, 2008] Reference

Fig. 3, a quarter turn; Fig. 4, three-eighths of a turn.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 497, July 11, 1885] Reference

The layer of nuts is perhaps three-eighths of an inch thick.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association Incorporated 39th Annual Report at Norris, Tenn. September 13-15 1948] Reference

The rope that they used was new rope, about three-eighths inch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Strange Fruit: Anniversary Of A Lynching] Reference

Pack the product to within three-eighths of an inch of the top.    From Wordnik.com.  [Every Step in Canning] Reference

They are about three-eighths of an inch long and they are a hopper.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Forty-Second Annual Meeting Urbana, Illinois, August 28, 29 and 30, 1951] Reference

Cut a strip of such goods on a true bias, three-eighths of an inch wide.    From Wordnik.com.  [Make Your Own Hats] Reference

The border on paper and envelopes is usually three-eighths of an inch for.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Etiquette of To-day] Reference

The entire cost of placing the loan was less than three-eighths of one per cent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference

Cut away all superfluous material, allowing three-eighths of an inch for a seam.    From Wordnik.com.  [Make Your Own Hats] Reference

Hose should be three-eighths to one-half inch in diameter, one inch being too heavy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Apple Growing] Reference

It has increased by three-eighths of an inch — less than the thickness of a pencil.    From Wordnik.com.  [State of fear]

The boat's sides, three-eighths of an inch thick, would be crushed like a cardboard box.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico] Reference

Cut away all superfluous material, allowing three-eighths of an inch seam at the center back.    From Wordnik.com.  [Make Your Own Hats] Reference

A still softer brazing metal is composed of half copper, three-eighths zinc and one-eighth tin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oxy-Acetylene Welding and Cutting Electric, Forge and Thermit Welding together with related methods and materials used in metal working and the oxygen process for removal of carbon] Reference

Within were ten guns, each with a barrel twenty inches long, and a three-eighths of an inch bore.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wonder Island Boys: The Tribesmen] Reference

The stock of which the frame is made is pine, 1¼ inches wide, and three-eighths of an inch thick.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 365, December 30, 1882] Reference

The terms half blood, three-eighths blood, and quarter blood refer to the full-blooded Merino standard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades] Reference

Measure off three-eighths of an inch in opposite directions on each corner and on both sides of the wood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Construction Work for Rural and Elementary Schools] Reference

States notes to ninety-seven and three-eighths per cent., or within nearly two and a half per cent. of coin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference

I looked at the barometer, and reported that there was scarcely three-eighths of an inch of mercury in the tube.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pharaoh's Broker Being the Very Remarkable Experiences in Another World of Isidor Werner] Reference

"The smaller sprouts are sometimes cut into pieces three-eighths of an inch long, and cooked and served as green pease.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference

The ripe seeds are clear white, ovoid or egg-shaped, nine-sixteenths of an inch long, and three-eighths of an inch thick.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference

The ripe seeds are of an ovoid or rounded form, and measure half an inch in length and three-eighths of an inch in thickness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference

"The law's sound on slaves, Judge Madison has a dozen himself, not all black either; not three-eighths black!" and he laughed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sleuth of St. James's Square] Reference

The ripe seed is somewhat indented and irregularly compressed, three-eighths of an inch in diameter, and of a greenish-blue color.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference

The border should not exceed three-eighths of an inch in width, and three-sixteenths of an inch during the period of half mourning.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Etiquette of To-day] Reference

Since then it has been increased several times until it is now three-eighths of a mill on every dollar; it netted the University in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The University of Michigan] Reference

They are kidney-shaped, irregularly compressed or flattened, nearly three-fourths of an inch long, and three-eighths of an inch deep.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference

He figured that on a guy as big and as old as Lennox the sternum would be a well-calcified plate maybe three-eighths of an inch thick.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bad Luck and Trouble]

A well-developed fruit will measure about three-eighths of an inch in diameter; and, when uncoiled, nearly an inch and a half in length.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference

These plates are of the same manufacture as those for making boilers, varying in thickness from three-eighths to three-fourths of an inch.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Illustrated London Reading Book] Reference

The longitudinal stick should be of strong spruce, sixty inches in length and about three-eighths or one-half inch in width and thickness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Healthful Sports for Boys] Reference

The ripe seeds are white, egg-shaped, sometimes nearly spherical, half an inch long, and three-eighths of an inch in breadth and thickness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference