Sentence examples for length of the thing from inspiring English sources

"We didn't go the bathroom, we didn't move for the length of the thing.

In fact, changing the length of the string is the only thing that will change the period and frequency of a pendulum.

Although the players seemed to be simply down-stroking with flat picks across the length of the strings, amazing things were happening in the sound field above our heads.

It has huge consequences for Britain and for Europe, but the debate is being fought on peripheral subjects that have been made to seem central – quotas and the length of the working week, things that can be negotiated.

Spokesman John Bullock said: "The best way of doing it is to take a larger area and actually do a proper re-surfacing over a length of the road because one thing we've discovered is - and this is talking to local authorities - is it's 20 times dearer to do what they're doing to repair potholes by doing it on a spot basis.

Others say that the length of the relationships suggests that things might have been different between the two.

This constant attenuation — a pulling out of chair legs and table lengths — is one of the things that make Shaker design so seductive, in the most direct way.

And there is no question but that the length of the interval is important; other things being equal, rats will form a stronger aversion to a food they have eaten recently than to one they have eaten several hours earlier.

One possible answer would appeal to the epistemic goal of having information relevant to manipulation and control; one may manipulate the length of the shadow by, among other things, manipulating the height of the pole but not conversely.

The extent of such protection naturally depends on experimental conditions including the intensity of light and the length of the light path, among other things.

The length of the film may be one big thing about it that some people will see as negative - two and a half hour run time can be trying.