The phrase "astonishing length" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is remarkably long, whether in physical dimensions, duration, or metaphorical context.
Example: "The novel was of astonishing length, spanning over a thousand pages and taking the reader on an epic journey."
Alternatives: "remarkable length" or "incredible length".
The ad went on for more than four minutes, an astonishing length to contemplate, now that the typical spot is thirty seconds.
The cabbage rolls – crinkly savoy that retains its bite – contain a stuffing studded with fat chunks of floury chestnut, perhaps the ferrous suggestion of offal: a mouthful of astonishing length.
The power of "All the Way" comes when you listen to these words anew, and realize that perhaps we don't know what death or love actually is, and that you can hold a note for an astonishing length of time, but not forever.
Marcus Aurelius". Vincent replied: "Marcus A… would have fed these [expletive] to the lions tho mate". He spent almost two weeks giving evidence, an astonishing length of time.
In your case, you'll need one who is prepared to stay up until 5AM entirely sober while a bunch of wreckheads goggle at old clips of CD:UK and wax on at astonishing length about why My Vitriol are Britain's great lost band.
Mothers have sometimes labored for astonishing lengths of time, unable to deliver, and died with their child in the process.
The National Front has gone to astonishing lengths to buy votes, abuse government resources and engage in electoral fraud.
Proulx, who winters in Santa Fe and vacations in Capri, does not mask her contempt for the locals, many of whom go to astonishing lengths to indulge her whims.
"Bird Cloud," by Annie Proulx (Scribner; $26) Proulx, who winters in Santa Fe and vacations in Capri, does not mask her contempt for the locals, many of whom go to astonishing lengths to indulge her whims.
John Gapper in the FT argued that "In terms of sheer storytelling technique, Flash Boys is remarkable" and that "Lewis reaches a stark conclusion: US stock markets are now rigged by traders who go to astonishing lengths to gain a millisecond edge over their rivals … But he carries the reader so firmly toward this conclusion that one ends up feeling a bit manipulated".
He for one is not ready to surrender, and seems prepared to go to quite astonishing lengths to keep Swiss banking secrecy.
