He showed me a report from the two-inch thick file on my family.

At an inquest last week, the couple presented a three-inch thick file of all the information they had gathered.

The archives contain a thick file of stories and plays and hymns he wrote for his students, but when he returned to the classroom he stopped writing novels.

There was a thick file on him, she said.

One report suggested that having more than four recommendations was a mistake, and that a thick file indicated a thick student to admissions personnel.