I'd like to think that the Lumière brothers would thrill at the cat-and-mouse chase through the netherworld streets of Gotham in The Dark Knight, with helicopters tripping on high-tensile wires and falling from the sky, and a huge Joker-driven triple-length truck upending 180 degrees like a Russian acrobat.
Alan Sepinwall of The Star-Ledger enjoyed the triple-length "There's No Place Like Home", but ranked it in the middle of his list of the season's episodes from best to worst and decided that "'There's No Place Like Home" (both parts) played fair with the audience 100 percent, answered [many] questions … and yet … I feel ever so slightly disappointed by all of this".
Four-minute sketches would triple in length; scripted tight shots would become full-length sight gags that would catch the rest of the cast unawares.
"The duration of the main ejaculation, 34 seconds, was more than triple the length of the average waking orgasm, which is 10 seconds," wrote Focus.
At the same time, Taipei has announced plans to more than triple the length of its network of segregated city centre bike lanes to 120 miles by 2019.
The Beijing subway system, currently about 125 miles of tunnels and overhead tracks, is undergoing a breakneck expansion that will nearly triple its length in the next five years.
A sundial in Hunters Point has a gnomon (the triangular piece that casts the shadow) that is 78 feet long, nearly triple the length of Ingleside's.
It would entail slashing through around 180 miles of thick tropical terrain — roughly triple the length of the Panama Canal — and then pumping a virtual sea through a series of locks deep enough for massive cargo ships.
To mark my visit he signed into law a commitment to send additional troops to Minkébé, triple the length of their deployment, and to further strengthen Gabon's wildlife commitments.
They include the tricky maneuvers that made the Panama Canal possible (instead of a proposed Nicaraguan Canal at nearly triple the length) and the enormously successful effort to create national parks (despite the opposition of forces with slogans like "Not One Cent for Scenery").
