Sentence examples for two yards long from inspiring English sources

There was a short break for refreshment, and great difficulties were experienced with the bread which was handed about "in immense poles at least two yards long".

A five-image polyptych that recalls a medieval or Renaissance altarpiece, it is more than two yards long and a yard high and took five years to paint.

Measure and cut four different colored strings of embroidery floss each two yards long.

The lay-by was a couple of hundred yards long.

It was a hundred yards long — quite enough for twelve.

Each leg is thirty-six yards long and the waist is twenty-eight yards around.

The 1908 London Olympic marathon course was promoted as being twenty-six miles and three hundred and eighty-five yards long.

It had been a vaulted stone passageway over thirty yards long, equipped with benches.

The driveway to that house was two hundred yards long and included a switchback.

The Zambezi River border with Zambia is only several hundred yards long.

Another, from 1902, poked fun at another politician who "disappointed the galleries with pithy speeches six yards long".