Sentence examples for lengthen for from inspiring English sources
Most therapists prescribe eccentric exercises, which involve muscle contractions as the muscle fibers lengthen (for example, when a hand-held weight is lowered from the waist to the thigh).
He then puts the noodles on a rack and leaves them to lengthen for about an hour; then they are ready to be pulled.
After putting them back on the rack to lengthen for an hour, the noodles are taken outside, shaken in an up-and-down motion like bedsheets to make them thinner, and put up on frames to hang in the sun.
We did not recalibrate these adjustment factors with our claims data since the numerator of the adjustment factor (days between fills) would presumably lengthen for patients who were less persistent on a given therapy, thus confounding the adjustment factor with a proxy measure of the outcome being assessed.
The shadows are lengthening for Glamorgan.
So the "time to market" has lengthened for many Internet companies in the incubators' portfolios.
The days have been lengthening for a month now, to little discernible impact.
The winter solstice on Mars passed on May 12, and the days on Mars are now lengthening for the rovers.
Almost every target is being missed and waiting times are lengthening for ambulances, for A&E, for cancer referrals and for elective surgery beyond 18 weeks.
And all traffic on the east-west streets will get the benefit if a green light gets lengthened for the bus".
The Audit Commission recently reported that average waits in casualty departments are also lengthening (for which Mr Milburn crassly blamed hospital managers).The government's new targets concern waiting times rather than lists.
