These meticulous shells are just over a half-inch long and usually will house just one tiny egg.
这些小小的巢室通常只有半英尺多一点点长，一个巢室里边安放一个小蜂卵。
2
It seems Sveden had been eating peas, and one went down the wrong pipe, then sprouted in his lung. The plant was about half an inch in size.
医生推测斯维登在吃豌豆时，不慎将一粒豌豆呛到了气管中，并在肺部发芽，现已长至半英寸。
3
On one of my corn strips, only 12 feet wide and about 400 feet long, there is, half way down one strip, a six inch gully created by a rain so heavy it melted a salt block in the pasture nearby.