Example sentences of "a [adj] length " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Largo Richini , an airy square , leads to a pleasant length , ( but narrow width ) of parkland that is used by early morning paper readers on Sundays , and by students on all days . |
| 2 | On the basis that it had continued thus , the blade would have had a total length of about five inches . ’ |
| 3 | By the beginning of the twentieth century there were some 200 levadas with a total length of 1,000km . |
| 4 | It 's an incredible engineering feat , boring 2 running tunnels and a central service tunnel with a total length of over 150 km . |
| 5 | Yet Lin does feel constrained by what at times seems to be the overriding imperative of producing a total length of 60 to 75 minutes . |
| 6 | It is small , attaining a total length of about three inches . |
| 7 | Some responses listed most topics in courses of a total length of nine hours . |
| 8 | Diversions of existing deep foul sewers were undertaken using a combination of pipe-jacking and mini-tunnel techniques over a total length of 455 metres — the longest drive being 342 metres of 1-metre diameter mini-tunnel beneath both new and old A71 and the Union Canal . |
| 9 | The prevalence of mechanically defective cardia , defined as lower oesophageal sphincter pressure equal or below 6 mm Hg , an abdominal portion of the lower oesophageal sphincter with a length equal or shorter than 9 mm , and a total length of the distal sphincter equal or shorter than 20 mm , or a combination of these three parameters are shown in Table V. We also calculated the percentage of cases with absence of lower oesophageal sphincter pressure and the percentage of cases with absence of the abdominal portion of lower oesophageal sphincter . |
| 10 | Between 1870–71 , the Ironworks produced 36 spans at the rate of three a month each of 107ft to make a total length of 3,852ft for the Kistna Viaduct . |
| 11 | In the case when a clone length is less than that of a repetitive element ( or a total length of a group of adjacent repeats ) , a break in the contig is inevitable and can only be closed by using longer clones which can bridge the repeat . |
| 12 | Try draping a narrow length from a curtain pole to produce an attractive crossover effect in front of a plain roller blind . |
| 13 | The remarkable thing is that one gets exactly the same kind of fringes if one replaces the source of light by a source of particles such as electrons with a definite speed ( this means that the corresponding waves have a definite length ) . |
| 14 | For example , he says that he would very much like to record the Berg Violin Concerto ( ‘ another piece that 's difficult to programme ’ ) , but the trouble is finding a coupling that will bring the disc up to a respectable length . |
| 15 | A kitchen timer that rings to indicate to the child when they have managed to sit for a specific length of time can be linked to the reward chart . |
| 16 | You should be trying to match a certain backswing length to a specific length and speed of putt . |
| 17 | It 's a tall length . |
| 18 | Architecturally they are likely to have a short-word length ( most commonly 16 bits ) , to perform arithmetic in fixed-point binary format , and to be provided with sophisticated transput and interrupt facilities . |
| 19 | Such skirts are especially good worn over tights if you 're young and dashing or over a strongly contrasting coloured slip if you do n't fancy showing lots of leg — or try a mini length slip and a longer lace skirt as a happy compromise . |
| 20 | The grandiose Siberian rivers scheme proposed using water from rivers Ob , Irtysh and Yenisei ( with a combined length of of 5,700 miles ) . |
| 21 | We may anticipate that there will be a stable length right at the start of the pipe ( the Reynolds number based on boundary layer thickness being small here ) , followed by the unstable region , this being followed in turn by another stable region as the profile approaches Poiseuille flow . |
| 22 | I 've settled now for a sort of uniform during the day of a skirt , silk shirt and a jacket , with a three-quarter length cashmere coat over it in winter . |
| 23 | To counteract the problem select a less lofted club , widen your stance a little to gain a bit of extra stability and use a three-quarter length backswing ( photo below ) . |
| 24 | The museum still lacked , as curator Jan Piet Filedt Kok said , a three-quarter length male portrait from the 1630s . |
| 25 | From her elegant Park Avenue apartment come Picasso 's ‘ Femme dans un Fauteuil ’ of 1946 depicting Marie-Thérèse Walter ( est. $3.5–4.5 million ; £1.8–2.4 million ) and a magnificent Matisse , ‘ L'Asie ’ of 1946 , also currently included in the MoMA ‘ Matisse ’ show , depicting a three-quarter length female model in fur gown holding up a necklace , painted in reds , mauve , pink and gold , estimate on request . |
| 26 | The same approach is applied to the whole body of a three-quarter length figure , which is the culmination of the series . |
| 27 | Trapezium could break her duck in the John Holdrich Maiden Fillies Stakes following a three-quarter length debut second to Waffle On at Newmarket . |
| 28 | Trapezium could break her duck in the John Holdrich Maiden Fillies Stakes following a three-quarter length debut second to Waffle On at Newmarket . |
| 29 | We have used the FCL record as published , although we found that they omitted two minor troughs around 1800 and that a different length for the final solar cycle is obtained when making use of the most recently available data . |
| 30 | Each string has a different length so you will each be investigating a different size circle . |