Sentence examples for length of world from inspiring English sources

Why had the United States been in Afghanistan for twice the length of World War II?

Perhaps Kasparov would have won the rematch had it continued to a full 24 games (then the standard length of world championship matches).

It was exciting to finally get to experience the full length of world's largest and weirdest country by train.

The largest monitor lizard in New Guinea, it is believed to be one of the longest lizards in the world, verified at up to 244 cm, and in rare cases it may rival or exceed the length of the world's largest lizard, the Komodo dragon.

The length of the world's roads is projected to increase by more than 60% by 2050, say the researchers, but only about 5% of the roadless areas currently have any legal protection, according to the new work published in the journal Science.

The paved road is wide and flat, seeming to stretch the length of the world.

As you walk up the nave there are markings of the lengths of the world's other great cathedrals, and they are all shorter, telling you that St Peter's is the longest.

Effects were relatively small for L because the path length of a small-world network is typically close to that of a random network.

He was not prolific he wrote just six full-length novels but in terms of world renown and sales Mr García Márquez's "One Hundred Years of Solitude" (1967) has eclipsed almost any other text translated from Spanish in the past 50 years.In some respects this novel not only put its author's native Colombia on the literary map but also his continent.

From the perspective of the cold world, or on the assumption that that world is actual, the expression 'one meter' rigidly designates some length l, which is the length of S at that world, but which is a little shorter than the length of S at the warmer worlds.

Does the phrase derive from the length of ammunition belts in World War II aircraft?