Sentence examples for a vast length from inspiring English sources

It's puzzling, since each 100-hectare plot (meaning two would swallow up Allegro's entire farm) is irrigated by a "pivot" – a vast length of galvanised pipe mounted on wheeled towers with sprinklers positioned along its length.

It wasn't merely a question of reducing its vast length, but of choosing the ideas that have made the story endure.

This decision stems from a number of questions I would have liked to have answered and, to a considerable degree, to the vast length of the manuscript.

Try to read Les Misérables  as if it were a normal book, ignoring the vast length.

Lewisohn may not be a writer, but he is a sleuth of genius and the book's vast length is more than justified.

Elvis Costello's Unfaithful Music and Disappearing Ink (Viking) takes a creative approach to chronology as it unwinds through its vast length, but only his faithful fans will remain entranced by the litany of dropped names.

The area of settlement is of vast length but little breadth and has no natural centre from which political uniformity could be imposed; its natural communications have never been easy, and the mountain blocks have been large enough to maintain populations to a greater or lesser degree independent of and hostile to those that controlled the plains.

I haven't seen the Marcello Mastroianni original, but it surely can't have been as mawkishly unendurable as Kirk Jones's version, an About Schmidt wannabe in which Robert De Niro spends vast lengths of the story sitting on a bus or a train looking glum and unwanted.

"The larger issue was the fundamental unfairness of the vast lengths the government went to, to protect this institution and its management, shareholders and bondholders," Ms. Bair writes.

We're talking in Hall SM18 where the next generation of magnets is being checked - vast lengths of blue pipe are manoeuvred into giant testing rigs.

Cracks are formed on a vast set of length scales, in salty as well as in fresh-water ice.