Sentence examples for length- from inspiring English sources

Meanwhile, Karimov has sought to keep Russia at arm's length.

Onofre told the band the length of the performance was to be determined by how long the oxygen inside lasted.

It's the same with bowling, line and length, line and length.

Eyre said he had "talked at length" with Norris – advising him that at times he would need to be stoical and that the most enjoyable part of the job was "taking pleasure in others' successes".

"If you've got a fixed-term tenancy and you want to leave before it ends, the landlord can insist that you keep paying rent for the full length of the tenancy," says Khan. "If you have a joint fixed-term tenancy it can't be ended early unless all the housemates and the landlord agree, which is known as a surrender, or if there is a break clause in the tenancy agreement.

I now realised that this is what happened every night, during the two years in the West End and in countless performances the length and breadth of the country.

The hardest climbing has only recently weighed into the new grade of 5.15 and then usually for single-rope-length sport climbs, which even then climbers may spend weeks or months attempting to overcome.

Obvious candidates in the firing line among Defra's 28 arms-length bodies include its waste programme, Wrap.

There have been rumours of a feature-length version of the popular BBC series for a number of years now, intensified recently by the reunion of the characters in Back and Forth, the short film currently showing at the millennium dome in the Skyscape cinema.

In a separate talk with Fader, James promised that the new full-length will not be his last: he is apparently "kicked into gear" for new releases.

Later in the year Reid's book-length poem The Song of Lunch, about two former lovers meeting at their old Soho haunt, was made into a BBC film starring Emma Thompson and Alan Rickman.