There are a dozen of you within a twenty-foot radius.    From Wordnik.com.  [Running Blind]

Those twenty-foot bushes were an unusual sort of growth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Federation Of The Hub]

He's also a twenty-foot long blue dragon ... half grown.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hit Or Myth]

TEU stands for twenty-foot equivalent unit - the standard length of.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

The problem was, a twenty-foot fall would probably only maim, not kill.    From Wordnik.com.  [Invasion]

The fall had been the equivalent of a twenty-foot drop on to a concrete floor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ice Station Zebra]

The castle faced the valley, entirely surrounded by a massive twenty-foot wall.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan the Freebooter]

More than three standard twenty-foot Greenwich Village storefronts, less than four.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hard War]

China Merchants 'container traffic rose 13% to 25.1 million twenty-foot equivalent units.    From Wordnik.com.  [China Merchants Reports] Reference

(A TEU or twenty-foot equivalent unit, is the size of a standard, 20-foot cargo container.).    From Wordnik.com.  [A Tale of Two Ports: Seeking to recast their brand in an unprecedented economic crisis] Reference

So I sat on the edge of a twenty-foot bank clasping the Colt, and hanging my feet into vacancy.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Woman's Impression of the Philippines] Reference

They wheeled, went flashing away in effortless twenty-foot strides, and were gone among the trees.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Federation Of The Hub]

If the subject cannot read up to the twenty-foot line, nearsightedness or astigmatism is indicated.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Science of Human Nature A Psychology for Beginners] Reference

But when it was finished, there was a twenty-foot cow next to it, which completely trumped my piece.    From Wordnik.com.  [Victoria Lautman: Chicago's Big Shoulders Get an Eyeball to Match] Reference

He watched the two teams measure carefully, setting the charges at the corners of a twenty-foot box.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arctic Fire]

The archway opening onto the balcony had empty air behind it and a twenty-foot drop to tumbled stones.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sun of Suns] Reference

And now a monstrous thing appeared far off, to stalk like a balloon on twenty-foot legs in their direction.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Raid on the Termites] Reference

When was the last time you saw your men look relieved over a twenty-foot change in depth? he asked himself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Red Storm Rising]

'You can't fit a twenty-foot mast on to a thing like a wash - tub and expect it to keep upright,' said Larry.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Family and Other Animals]

Neither one of 'em is big, but if you saw their arms you'd know how they swing those twenty-foot steering oars.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Edge of the Arctic or, An Aeroplane in Snowland] Reference

The carpet, on which he and Cimorene were sitting, lay in the center of a twenty-foot circle of thin green fuzz.    From Wordnik.com.  [Searching for dragons]

"Up yours too," Casey muttered and then parodied an awful hawk and a twenty-foot spit and they laughed with her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Noble House]

Seconds later, it was tracing a swift, erratic course at a twenty-foot height among the trees, soundless as a shadow.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Federation Of The Hub]

Preble raised his eyebrows, and stepped across the twenty-foot space between the catwalk and the nearest tube breech.    From Wordnik.com.  [Natives of Space]

A twenty-foot sea serpent thrashed wildly, forcing a long-horned tiger to spring aside and stalk Burke from his left.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chainer's Torment]

If the subject can read above the twenty-foot line and complains of headache from reading, farsightedness is indicated.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Science of Human Nature A Psychology for Beginners] Reference

The softest, softest lace imaginable, woven in a delicate roses-and-ivy pattern, flowing down into a twenty-foot train.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pull of the Moon]

During the period, China Merchants 'container throughput fell 19% to 20.35 million twenty-foot equivalent units, or TEUs.    From Wordnik.com.  [China Merchants to Curb Costs as Its Profit Slips] Reference

But then large drops of undeniable rain fell over a twenty-foot circle; and Greenberg's mocking grin shrank and grew sour.    From Wordnik.com.  [Smart Dragons, Foolish Elves]

The man recommended a sturdy jib-headed sloop with a large cabin and a built-in engine, but de Gier preferred a twenty-foot cutter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Japanese Corpse]

As soon as they were airborne, Murray had a crewman attach him to the floor with a twenty-foot safety line so that he could walk around.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clear and Present Danger]

In an instant the graceful concrete arch was cut in two, a ragged twenty-foot gap appearing between the two unsecured flying buttresses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Red Storm Rising]

He headed for a twenty-foot bank, and his racing legs did not stop until the swirling waters of the Columbia had closed heavily over them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lady Luck] Reference