The large audience at Avery Fisher Hall seemed more than content with a few big tunes: an hour's worth of music stretched to almost twice that length with tepidly humorous commentary by the festival host and conductor, Bramwell Tovey, and bad stage management.
The size and shape of the upper jaw fragment suggests that the creature was about 4 meters long, with some other species in the Helicoprion genus measuring almost twice that length.
"We've only got one song left on the bit of paper," slurs Alex, glaring at the set list 30 minutes into a gig that will run almost three times that length.
A sixty-foot corridor that runs almost the length of the apartment is mirrored on walls and ceiling, so that walking along it is like entering a kaleidoscope.
Besides lobsters, her subjects have included bull kelp, a seaweed that grows almost the length of a city block in a single summer, and Microraptor gui, a small feathered dinosaur whose fossilized remains were recently discovered in China.
To make the most of the narrow space, they designed two parallel shoe displays, about 50 feet long, that run almost the length of the boutique with a runway-like aisle in between.
Since the start of construction in 1992, about 16m tonnes of concrete have been poured into the giant barrier across the Yangtze river, creating a reservoir that stretches back almost the length of Britain and drives 26 giant turbines.
Your workouts almost never exceed that length of time.
It created a trench of sorts along almost the length of the building.
Two great rivers, the Tigris and the Euphrates, flow almost the length of the country.
