Sentence examples for story length from inspiring English sources

The two main variables are search term and story length.

This was a new story length for television, a pleasing middle distance between the ninety-second sprints of nightly news and the deadly marathons of documentaries.

When I was writing my first collection, most of my stories fell somewhere in the seven-thousand-word range, I think because that was for whatever reason my mental template for "short story length".

James Bond, unlike Sherlock Holmes, does not fit snugly into the short story length: there is something grandiose and intercontinental about his adventures that require elbow room and such examples of the form as we have tend to be eccentric or muted.

The story length ranged between 26 and 72 seconds (M = 52.6, SD = 9.7).

Although participants were instructed to write very short stories (around four sentences long), there was a great deal of variability in story length (M = 71.7 words, SD = 25.8; range: 19 155 words).

Four participants with story lengths that were greater than three standard deviations from the mean were excluded from all analyses of story-writing task performance.

One witness, who was walking down the street with her laundry as the fire erupted, said she saw a man, who is believed to have ignited the entire three-story length of the inside staircase, running from the building with one of his sneakers on fire.

Most people are interested in information and others experience and will easily listen to your stories and personal history if it is relevant to them and their life and you keep your stories length within their attention span.

Four of the titles are Quick Reads – a series of story-length novels designed to appeal to reluctant readers.

A 2006 report, The State of the News Media, indicated that, in the United States, "Celebrity/Entertainment" and "Lifestyle" stories made up some 17 percent of broadcast stories by duration and nearly 10 percent of print stories by length while "Election" and "Government" stories made up 15 percent of broadcast stories and 21 percent of print stories.