Sentence examples for a standard length from inspiring English sources

All firms inside the building are a standard length of cable away from the exchange servers, to ensure none of them have an advantage.

It's as if Lapine and Sondheim felt obliged to stretch the show out to a standard length but ran out of ways to keep themselves let alone the audience interested in their characters.

Molchanova would have dropped a 20-metre line, a standard length for beginning freedivers, and it is likely the students would have taken turns to descend, gently increasing the depth of their descent with each dive, said her son.

It's as if Lapine and Sondheim felt obliged to stretch the show out to a standard length but ran out of ways to keep themselves — let alone the audience — interested in their characters.

Now, walk yourselves back from those pretty yellow roses on a store shelf and what you find is this: Kenyan women in green uniforms, taking roses from a cold room, cutting them to a standard length of 20.5 inches, removing leaves and thorns, bunching them, and wrapping them (complete with plant food package).

His suggestion for "a London-wide policy framework" for build-to-rent involves a requirement for developers to include a fixed percentage of discounted market rent homes in new developments - "a London-wide tariff" - and their commitment to keeping these properties available for rent "for a minimum number of years" with, possibly, a standard length lease term.

He has decided to go back to a standard-length putter this week at the Players Championship after more than a year of experimenting with different lengths of putters and styles of putting.

Interstellar's box office chances have been finessed by some quixotic creative decisions by Nolan: the 169-minute running time of the picture means that it will get fewer screenings per day than a standard-length film, though the multiple-format release – including Imax and 70mm as well as more conventional 35mm – may give dedicated filmgoers the motivation for repeated viewings.

We do not have the space here to write a standard-length novel, of course, but we believe it is possible to fit enough inconsequentiality into 790 words to compete with any paperback junk you might be considering reading while working on your tan.

When I felt frustrated by churning out a standard-length Op-Ed column after a few years, The Times went out of its way to accommodate me by giving me more space, all the better for trying to connect more dots.

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