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column inches

n. (column inch English)

Usage examples of "column inches".

With precious few column inches to fight over in conservative publications, conservative writers typically detest one another.

Taking my time, to make certain there would be no mistakes, I measured the column inches in the _Encyclopedia_ to see how many inches had been allotted to Goya, El Greco, Piranesi, Michelangelo--and Debierue.

Purcell had been gone since Friday, September 12, and the lengthy column inches initially devoted to his disappearance were now reduced to an occasional mention nearly ritual in its tone.

Jimmy Stoma's obit is 810 words, or about twenty-four column inches of type.

Between this and stories on Burke of the Somme, Chant's death attracted a lot of column inches.

Not a single group had been able to overcome that fact before being penetrated and destroyed by the Bureau -- then to learn that their destruction was granted but a few column inches on page eleven, their defiant manifesto not printed at all.