Sentence examples for were lengthened to from inspiring English sources

Stays were lengthened to six weeks, but the NT government recently reset them back to two after community feedback.

On the Ohio River the original 600-foot lock chambers were lengthened to 1,200 feet to obviate double lockage.

Similarly, windows were lengthened to 10 feet, from 5, and cut into the eastern wall where none existed before, developers said.

Both syllables in Old English nama "name," mete "meat, food," nosu "nose," wicu "week," and duru "door" were short, and the first syllables, being stressed, were lengthened to nāme, mēte, nōse, wēke, and dōre in the 13th and 14th centuries.

In that sense, the roadblocks established by the P.S.L.R.A. to thwart Lerach turned out to be like the golf courses that were lengthened to make them harder for the long-hitting Tiger Woods — they only reinforced Milberg Weiss's experience and resources.

In the other version, the signals were lengthened to match the durations of the human talker.

It was lengthened to its current 36 days in 1997.

The presidential term was lengthened to seven years from five.

The par 4 was lengthened to 521 yards.

One runway is being lengthened to more than 9,000 feet to accommodate the biggest jets.

There is a suspicion that waiting times are being lengthened to discourage applicants from abroad.