Sentence examples for a modest length of from inspiring English sources

Harris recommends starting with a modest length of time (five or ten minutes) and then trying to sit for longer.

They wanted a serious assessment by someone outside the industry, at a relatively modest length of 30,000 words.

Bare shoulders are also a no-no, midriffs must be covered and dresses and skirts have to be of a "modest" length.

For ladies in the Royal Enclosure, fascinators are out and there is a warning dresses and skirts need to be "of a modest length", while for men cravats are a big no-no.

Wear a shorter skirt with a blouse that covers you or show a bit of cleavage in a modest length dress.

Given the modest length of the course, players will be using a driver only half a dozen times a round and often wedged approaches can be set up by mere long irons from the tee.

As a scientist and daughter of an officer in the US Air Force, this made me leap out of my chair and run shrieking up and down the modest length of my London flat.

Long closed to public access, Battery Townsley opened to the public last month in an open house; visitors can now view the battery and the modest lengths of the tunnels.

Gallagher devotes many pages — too many in a book of modest length — to critiques of recent Civil War scholars, whom he accuses of exaggerating the importance of slavery in the conflict and the contribution of black soldiers to Union victory.

What is a fiction-lover to do?One solution is "Luminous Airplanes" by Paul La Farge, a novel of modest length about a sluggish computer-programmer tasked with clearing out five generations of junk from his deceased grandparents' home.

All three of these books share an aura of knowledge, a tone of refinement and a sensation of bracing insight that, in a volume of modest length, loses rather than gains power through repetition.