Sentence examples for longer spans from inspiring English sources

For longer spans, steel beams are made in the form of plate girders.

Not that the quieter moments lack deliberation and soulfulness here, but the rousing choruses provide periodic jolts of excitement that easily support the longer spans.

Such returns, having been the rule in the last two years, are by far the exception over longer spans of history.

For longer spans, floor trusses can be made, with members joined by nail grids or nailed plywood gussets or with wood chords and diagonal metal web members.

But the concept calls for concrete beams along the perimeter of each floor and elsewhere to allow for longer spans and thus more flexibility in floor layouts.

The health-based part of the smog rule sets limits on the amount of smog people breathe at any one time, while the other part of the rule, known as the secondary standard, sets limits over longer spans.

He had a longer span in mind.

(Some researchers have proposed a longer span for this stage that extends into more recent time).

But the violent career of the 43-year-old one-eyed militant is much longer, spanning the major phases of the evolution of contemporary Islamic extremism.

This enabled stress redistribution over a longer span and prevented slippage between the in-plane yarns.

A study published in 1998, based on an even longer span of data, reached similar conclusions.