Sentence examples for third of the length from inspiring English sources

Rock'n'Roll, a third of the length, and delivered in fragmentary scenes, is more immediate, more focused and more contradictory.

Giff's a GS-9 with pink glasses and an immense underchin that makes up a good third of the length of his face.

It is a third of the length between first and second base, easy strolling distance for the droves of Yankee fans who crowded in religiously each baseball season.

(If you pinch the midpoint of a rubber band tuned to C and then pluck it, the tone goes up to the next higher C. At a third of the length, the tone rises to a G. With fractions of a fourth and a fifth, you get another C, then an E. Together, these notes spell a lovely major chord).

The toucan beak, which comprises one third of the length of the bird and yet only about 1/20th of its mass, has outstanding stiffness.

On Shetland, Davies trains in a 16.75m pool, a third of the length of the Olympic-sized pool she won bronze in.

She is 91 metres long (one-third of the length of a typical container ship), has a deadweight of 5,700 tonnes and cost about $70m.

The use of joints that were unpinchable on about a tenth of the length of the pipe?

The ball had been punted two-thirds of the length of the field by Stoke's goalkeeper, Asmir Begovic.

The Koran is a mere four-fifths of the length of the New Testament; but some Westerners find it an even more difficult read.

It encompasses the whole messy breadth of humanity, and so needs a decent translation to bring this about.Paradoxically, Alice Oswald manages to achieve this, even if her "Memorial" is about an eighth of the length of the "Iliad".