Sentence examples for long leaf from inspiring English sources

I grabbed a "bunch" of Nicaraguan-grown long leaf filler leaves surrounded by an Ecuadorean-grown binder leaf from one of the molds, and laid the bunch across the near edge of the wrapper.

Stacked on one side of his portable house were piles of rusted iron: discs from a farm harrow, long leaf springs from a truck and wheels from a tractor.

Walls are plaster, and the interior woodwork — most of it long leaf heart pine — was salvaged from a variety of sources, including a sawmill on the border between California and Oregon, and an old New Orleans brothel.

The plant shoots with long leaf blades grow from spring to autumn and die in winter (Miles et al. 1996; Cook et al. 2005).

In 2008, just about every major fund manager, Long Leaf, Dodge and Cox, even Vanguard, had funds that have done quite badly, worse than the market.

We consider several possible explanations for this association: (1) response to nutrient deficiency, (2) response to substrate salinity (due to growth in coastal mangrove habitats), (3) response to the composition of the Palaeozoic atmosphere, (4) return on investment (long leaf lifespan), and (5) phylogenetic constraint reflecting ancestral conditions.

The sword became differentiated from the dagger during the Bronze Age (c. 3000 bce), when copper and bronze weapons were produced with long leaf-shaped blades and with hilts consisting of an extension of the blade in handle form.

Before treatment was started, the length of the longest leaf, the first true leaf, on each plant was measured.

Plant height (cm) measured from ground level to the tip of the longest leaf, tiller number and leaf number were counted for each treatment and control.

After 28 days of growth, several parameters were measured (number of tillers, length of the longest leaf, maximum root length, depth reached by at least three crown roots and angle of the root cone).

On a weekly basis shoot growth was monitored as shoot length (length from the soil to the tip of the longest leaf) while the length of the longest visible root and the number of roots passed 25 cm at 21 days, 50 cm at 35 days, 75 cm at 42 days were recorded.