| The temple extended 60 cubit beneath the earth and rose 120 cubits above the surface. |
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| In ancient Egypt, a cubit was the distance from the elbow to the fingertips. |
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| At this height the statue would have measured between three and seven feet, depending on the length of the cubit. |
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| The basic measuring instrument was the cubit rod, the cubit being the length of the pharaoh's arm from his elbow to the tip of his fingers. |
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| It seems a long way from the cubit of Noah's time to the metre of 1793 and the light ray of today. |
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| The cubit, originally the distance from the elbow to the fingertips, had a long and distinguished career before it. |
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| The Ark had lower, middle, and upper decks and an additional clearance of one cubit at the roof. |
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| The basic subunit was the digit, doubtlessly a finger's breadth, of which there were 28 in the royal cubit. |
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| It was in fact done with infinite care and repeated measurements, using ropes and an official standard unit, the famous Egyptian royal cubit of 52.35 centimetres. |
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| In fact, even before this time, Le Morte D' Arthur states that he had lost a cubit of height due to his penitent fastings and prayers. |
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| Twenty-four digits, or six palms, were a small cubit. |
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| The 14th digit on a cubit stick was marked off into 16 equal parts. |
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| Johnson speculates that humans might have stood on average one-third again as tall as they stand today, and therefore the cubit might have been twenty-four inches long, not merely eighteen. |
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| The overall average per capita availability of water in the ESCAP region, with a population of 3.9 billion, is about 3,330 cubit metres per year, which is almost half the world average. |
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| Not sitting or lying on high seats or beds means not sitting on seats or beds that are fancy, expensive, large, or higher than one cubit or ca. 38 centimeters. |
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| The names of units often referred to parts of the body: the inch or pouce, the hand, the foot, and the yard or cubit corresponded to dimensions of the human body. |
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| Where the limit value is concerned, the Commission believes that its proposal for an annual average concentration of 5 micrograms per cubit metre is well balanced. |
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| And from the bottom upon the ground, even to the lower settle, shall be two cubits, and the breadth one cubit. |
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| Just as this operation started, the propane vapor relief valve erupted, venting vaporized propane into the air at a rate of 2,705 cubit feet per minute. |
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| The oil is mixed with bits of dry wood or punk and moulded into sticks about a cubit long and an inch in diameter by putting it into joints of small bamboo. |
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