He found a four-foot section of iron bar near one of the cells.

Similarly, since sheet rock is manufactured in four-foot sections, room dimensions are to be in multiples of four feet.

With an old saw I cut each 12-foot-long tube into three four-foot sections and put the sections in two trenches, three on each side.

A four-foot section of the wall beside them flashed into nothingness with neither sound nor light nor motion.

The design allows 110 different types of stockings to be shown in a four-foot section of display space.

In September 2011, a four-foot section of steel from the World Trade Center was placed adjacent to the sculpture.

The 40-foot-mural is broken down into four-foot sections.

Each craft also carried tubular-steel extension ladders made up of light, four-foot sections suitable for quick assembly.

"It doesn't sound like much, until you realize it comes in four-foot sections," Mr. Gordon said.

The yacht lost a four-foot section of its bow, a devastation that left few sailors believing the boat could be salvaged.