by inches

1. The bus just shaved me by inches.
   公共汽车从我身边擦过。
2. The bullet missed me by two inches.
   子弹只差两英寸就射中我了。
3. Kill him by inches.
   把他慢慢地折磨死。
4. Six of the Death Eaters ran toward them: Harry, Ron, and Hermione backed as quickly as possible down the nearest side street, and the Death Eaters missed them by inches.
   六七个食死徒朝他们跑来，哈利、罗恩和赫敏迅速后退，拐进了最后的一条小街，仅差几英寸就被他们撞上了。
5. Tom had a home run, but the ball went foul by inches. A miss is as good as a mile.
   我们还以为汤姆打了个本垒打，可是差几英寸变成界外球。真是差一点儿也不行啊。
6. The bullet missed him by two inches.
   那子弹差两英寸就打中他了。
7. I would have died by inches before I touched a single hair of his head!
   我宁可寸磔而死，也不会碰他一根头发！
8. Use the battens of two by one inches and steel nails for nailing to the wall.
   由一个使用条板二移动和钉牢的钢钉子对墙壁。
9. But, till then if you don't believe me, you don't know me till then, I would have died by inches before I touched a single hair of his head! '
   可是，不到那时候你要是不相信我，那你是不了解我不到那时候，我宁可寸磔而死，也不会碰他一根头发！
10. She was suffering from malarial fever, and seemed dying by inches.
    她当时正发着一种寒热病，似乎正在慢慢地死去。
11. Olivia runs a lathe which cuts semifinished product of metal by inches. Steps were made on the female die surface to make up for the thickness different of the blanks.
    奥利维亚开动一台车床，车床一点一点地切削着金属毛坯。凹模表面和型腔加工了台阶以补偿坯料的厚度差值。
12. Please cut the trousers by two inches.
    请把这条裤子剪掉2英寸。
13. They escaped death by inches.
    他们差一点死了。
14. The car missed me by inches. I escaped by the skin of my teeth.
    汽车差一点儿就撞上我了，我幸免于难。
15. We escaped from the accident by inches.
    我们差点儿就出意外了。
16. Using a limited form of precognition, zealots can even predict enemy movements striking, with deadly accuracy and dodging attacks by inches.
    狂热者还会运用他们有限的预知能力判断敌人的移动和攻击，从而给予致命的精确的近距离攻击。
17. His shot at the bear missed by inches.
    就差几英寸他就打中那头熊了。
18. The brick missed me by inches.
    那块砖头差几英寸就打中我了。
19. The car missed me by inches.
    那辆汽车差一点儿撞着我。
20. Kami leaned in as if to whisper something and snapped at the Invid's face, missing it by inches.
    卡米身体前倾，好像要在他耳边说点什么，然后朝因维人的脸猛咬过去，结果偏了几英寸。
21. I avoided the dog by inches.
    我差一点撞到狗。
22. The study reveals that, on the average, the witnesses overestimated the man's height by five inches, his age by eight years, and gave the wrong hair color in83 percent of the cases.
    研究显示，目击者们平均高估了小偷的身高达五英寸，高估了小偷的年龄达八岁，83%的人说错了小偷的头发颜色。
23. She went quietly upstairs to her son's bedroom and shortened the trousers by two inches.
    就悄悄上了楼，来到她儿子的房间，把那条裤子剪短了两英寸。
24. We were all shitting bricks as the truck missed the car by inches.
    当卡车差几英寸就撞上轿车时，我们都吓得心惊肉跳。
25. You know, that car never slowed down and it just missed me by inches.
    你知道，那车一点也没有慢下来，差一点就撞上了我。
26. The truck missed me by inches.
    那辆卡车差一点撞上我。
27. The index of apoptosis and the expression of Bcl-2 、 Bax were decreased after 24h by inches.
    24h后凋亡峰缓慢下降，Bcl-2、Bax的表达陆续减弱。
28. Public transportation OD matrix is fundamental to public transportation dispatch and network optimization. Traditional approach to collection of pubic transportation OD matrix needs a lot of personal trip surveys, which will expend a lot of manpower and material resources and renovate data by inches.
    公交OD量是公交调度管理及线网优化的基础，传统的获取公交OD量的方法需要进行大范围的个人出行情况调查，消耗大量人力物力，且数据更新缓慢。
29. As a whole, the newly rural special economic cooperative organization grows by inches, such as the limited provision of technology, information, capital, material and products distribution, etc.
    新型农村合作经济组织的发育和成长相当缓慢，在为农民提供技术、信息、资金、物资和产品销售等服务方面发挥的作用有限。
30. With dropping of pressure in gas reservoir year by year, power on with pollution of gas zone declined by inches.
    随着气藏压力逐年下降，气层抗污染能力逐渐减弱。

adv

1. by a short distance
   1. they moved it by inches

   Synonym:    little by littleby small degrees