column inch
inch
verb[ I ]
uk /ɪnʃ/us
to move very slowly or in a lot of short stages:
inch ahead/along/forwardCrates inched along the conveyor belt on their way out of the warehouse.
Legislators inched closer to closing a loophole in the law.
inch up/upwardStocks slowly inched upward in March.

Examples of inch

inch
Physically, the book's size is an awkward 10 inches by 7 inches.
The basic uncertainty in pressure readings was estimated t o be 0.003 vertical inches of water.
This book is smaller, but still relatively thick (five by seven by one inch), with over 350 pages.
He was only 5 feet 3 inches tall with a dark complexion, hazel eyes, and dark hair.
He was 5 feet 6 1/2 inches tall with dark skin, hazel eyes and black hair.
The advances are undeniable, especially in electoral matters as opposition parties have inched their way into elected office at various levels.
In places, the text comes to within one-eight of an inch of the bottom of the page and the margins are uniformly narrow.
They were seated at a comfortable viewing distance from the monitor with the microphone approximately one inch in front of their lips.
The cages are six inches long and one inch in diameter.
Women primarily used vertical looms that produced cloths averaging 21 inches in width.
Inch by inch the disturbance rises as if the desert were rising in obedience to some upthrusting force beneath.
He was 5 feet 8 inches tall and had brown hair with hazel eyes and a fair complexion.
He was 5 feet 8 inches tall, of fresh complexion, with dark hazel eyes and dark brown hair.
The child placed his/her hands, palms up, on a board and the scanner was situated 6 inches above the pair of open hands.
Sixteen inches down, a horizontal bar is anchored to this vertical and spans to the opposite frame.
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