Example sentences of "few [noun] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was sad to leave the boat , we had made many friends despite the trip being only a few hours long . |
| 2 | As they passed an STM tip over the surface they applied short bursts of alternating voltage , a few milliseconds long and slightly more than 1.5 volts in amplitude , over particular atoms . |
| 3 | Yet in the past few years long term nursing care beds in the NHS have been progressively reduced and district health authorities have made little effort to improve their remaining accommodation . |
| 4 | It 's like bits of a film — I have only fragments , each image a few seconds long . |
| 5 | Most molluscs are small , a few centimetres long and some are really tiny , but a few species have attained considerable dimensions . |
| 6 | Most bivalve fossils are a few centimetres long ; the ideal size for collecting . |
| 7 | The blastoids ( class Blastoidea ) had compact cups up to a few centimetres long , with five broad food grooves running down the sides ( lacking crinoid arms ) . |
| 8 | Individually , haplochromines are not spectacular in appearance : most are only a few centimetres long , and silvery , when they are not in their breeding colours . |
| 9 | They decided to use palladium rods , a few centimetres long , with diameters ranging from 1 mm up to 20 mm . |
| 10 | They grow sticking up vertically on sandy sea floors , some only a few centimetres long , some half as tall as a man . |
| 11 | They are all about the same size — only a few centimetres long — with roughly the same shape , slim , approximately rectangular , with high foreheads and small pouting mouths . |
| 12 | Mudskippers are only a few centimetres long and you can find them in mangrove swamps and muddy estuaries in many parts of the tropics , lying on the glistening mud well beyond the lap of the waters . |
| 13 | Cut all main branches back to a few inches long and for each prepare 2–3 scions of the new variety as for whip and tongue grafting , but trim their bases to a long wedge shape . |
| 14 | The pendulum consists of a weight on the end of a piece of string , thread or chain usually a few inches long . |
| 15 | To cut from a model a few inches long to a close-up of a face — Harrison Ford in the police Spinner in Blade Runner — establishes an identity between them . |
| 16 | The slit mechanism between the camera and the artwork , instead of being a few inches long , had to be about six feet ( 1.8m ) long . |
| 17 | Many of the fish caught are immature , just a few inches long . |
| 18 | These too need a rich food supply to complete their development , and the newly metamorphosed toads , just a few millimetres long , are exactly the right size . |
| 19 | Most are only a few millimetres long . |
| 20 | Remember that most adult gall insects are only a few millimetres long and only one or two millimetres wide . |