A tripod can be formed of three hop poles or barlings. The former can be laid in depths up to 2^ metres and the latter in depths up to about 5 metres at low water if the tidal range does not exceed about 3 metres.

Doctors define overweight and obesity by a rough-and-ready measurement called the body mass index (BMI).

I asked three different clerks, and they all gave me the brush-off.

Instinct in capitalist individualism are the notions of economic segregationalism and consequent psychological emphasis upon the right to privacy.