Sentence examples for comparable in length from inspiring English sources

In a video interview online Mr. Adams describes the challenge of writing this work, comparable in length to his operas.

The bridge at Saltash also carries trains, and its two main spans of 136.5 metres (455 feet) are comparable in length to the Britannia's 138-metre (460-foot) spans.

"According to the instructions of the Holy Qur'an, fasting in regions [near the poles] is never obligatory, for it is established as such only for a set amount of days, that is, in those places where night and day are comparable in length," Russian Tatar scholar Musa Bigiev wrote in a text on fasting.

MOSCOW — Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin, who transformed post-Soviet Russia by imposing Kremlin control over most aspects of public life, moved on Saturday to return to the presidency and could remain until 2024, giving him a rule comparable in length with that of Brezhnev or Stalin.

It is only six or eight hours long — comparable in length to the main story in Modern Warfare 2 — and while it is not propelled by scripted set pieces as cinematic as those in the competition, Bad Company 2's narrative glistens.

No reliable evidence for failure of predictions based on this no-slip boundary condition has yet been found, except in the case of what is called Knudsen flow of gases (i.e., flow at such low pressures that the mean free path is comparable in length with the dimensions of the apparatus).

Porcine flexor tendons, rather than lamb extensor carpi radialis tendons, were utilized for mechanical testing, since they were comparable in size (length, weight, circumference) to the lamb extensor tendons sectioned in part one, and were conveniently available for testing.

Although the tests were specifically noncumulative, the nature of the content covered from unit to unit did require transfer of knowledge from previous units, and the tests were comparable in difficulty and length to those of the previous years.

All lists were drawn from a pool of 60 action phrases and were comparable in terms of length and frequency of use of the corresponding words (see Appendix S1).

Second, the reference sequences of RDP classifier were not comparable to our amplicons in length.

The shaded column indicates the findings described in the Results, using simulated data sets of 13,000 SNPs (chosen for a region ∼100 Mb in length, comparable to the SNP content of our 100 Mb chromosome 15 data set).