Example sentences of "a few [noun pl] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The pendulum consists of a weight on the end of a piece of string , thread or chain usually a few inches long . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Many of the fish caught are immature , just a few inches long . |
| 7 | I was sad to leave the boat , we had made many friends despite the trip being only a few hours long . |
| 8 | Most molluscs are small , a few centimetres long and some are really tiny , but a few species have attained considerable dimensions . |
| 9 | Most bivalve fossils are a few centimetres long ; the ideal size for collecting . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | Individually , haplochromines are not spectacular in appearance : most are only a few centimetres long , and silvery , when they are not in their breeding colours . |
| 12 | They decided to use palladium rods , a few centimetres long , with diameters ranging from 1 mm up to 20 mm . |
| 13 | They grow sticking up vertically on sandy sea floors , some only a few centimetres long , some half as tall as a man . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Most are only a few millimetres long . |
| 18 | Remember that most adult gall insects are only a few millimetres long and only one or two millimetres wide . |
| 19 | It 's like bits of a film — I have only fragments , each image a few seconds long . |