Length
in sentence
1457 examples of Length in a sentence
For a facial slap, the interrogator was supposed to hit with fingers slightly spread, at equal
length
between the tip of the chin and the bottom of the corresponding earlobe.
When I next spoke at
length
with McNamara, in 1998, it was not about Vietnam but about nuclear arms, on which we agreed as much as we had disagreed about Vietnam.
The jury is still out on whether or not these new approaches deliver systemic change, and whether companies are adopting a “serve” rather than “capture” market strategy, but at least the issue of access to medicines is no longer being viewed at arm’s
length.
Middle Eastern countries should elaborate strategies to improve the quality and increase the
length
of schooling, invest in job training, establish private-sector apprenticeships, and develop small and medium-sized businesses.
If I were a young mother, I would trade almost anything for the chance to see my kids grow up, but, as an older person, I'm more concerned with quality of life than
length.
In fact, the requirement was very timid, posing so many restrictions in terms of quantity and
length
of ownership as to leave the bar to institutional investors effectively in place.
But keeping Russia at arm’s
length
from Europe has only strengthened the sense of isolation that many Russians feel, tempting them to define the country’s interests in ways that are irreconcilable with those of Europe.
Even before becoming President, he spoke at
length
about the Marxist-Leninist concept of “Party purity” in an address to the Central Party School in Beijing in March 2012.
The answer might depend on the nature of the crime, the
length
of the sentence, and the proportion of it that remains to be served.
Sharon had his troops climb over the sand dunes to enter the trench lines at their top end and attack down their
length
– a simple maneuver that the Egyptians could have defeated had they not been pinned down by an artillery barrage and Israeli tanks firing directly at them.
Power is his lodestar, and he appears to be willing to go to any
length
to secure it.
The first was to move away from the Bismarckian principle of universal pensions paying a benefit determined by the size of contributions and the
length
of the contribution period, rather than by the ability of the economy, or society as a whole, to pay.
But the Great Depression had lasted an unprecedented
length
of time.
In fact, those banks are bigger now than they were before the crisis, and, as James Kwak and I documented at
length
in our book 13 Bankers, they are much larger than they were 20 years ago.
A survey conducted in the Indian city of Mumbai revealed that railway commuters’ average daily journey was 22 kilometers, while rapid urbanization there and in much of the developing world is only likely to increase the
length
of commutes.
For example, the planned Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor, a project with Japanese collaboration entailing more than $90 billion in investment, will link Delhi to Mumbai’s ports, covering an overall
length
of 1,483 kilometers (921 miles) and passing through six states.
In the US, the Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that the
length
of the average workweek has held steady at about 34 hours since the advent of the Internet two decades ago.
When it comes to analyzing what ails Africa, it is customary to dwell at
length
on the continent’s traumatic past.
That might be true in theory, but the
length
of this transition period, which is at the heart of the global financial crisis, has been badly underestimated.
In such a case, firms could still remain free to choose the number of shares and options awarded to any given manager, as well as to adjust somewhat the
length
of the post-vesting period during which cashing out would be precluded.
The Chechen War was, thus, a war for our Constitution, which differs from, say, the American Constitution only by the depth and
length
of its tradition.
The boats are crude, small (about ten meters in length), and equipped with little more than basic fishing gear.
The Syrian civil war is not yet even half the
length
of that horrific struggle; but nor is there any sign that the various combatants are fatigued by it.
Economist Robert Schiller of Yale explained very clearly and at book
length
why US equity prices would fall.
Today, that kind of language is kept at arm’s
length.
Medicine must shift its focus from
length
of life to quality of life.
But, despite a patriarchal backlash, the movement shows no signs of abating: on January 1, in the Indian state of Kerala, an estimated five million women formed a human chain – or “women’s wall” – stretching nearly 400 miles across the
length
of the state, to demonstrate their commitment to the fight for gender equality.
The best explanation for the
length
of this recovery is disappointingly simple: the Great Recession was the United States’ worst downturn since the 1930s.
What he first depicted as a 1,000-mile concrete barrier is now to be about half that
length
and, so far, all that has been constructed is 64 miles of steel fences to replace structures installed during the Obama administration.
But, because post-1945 Britain feared that stronger multilateral institutions would put even more anti-colonialist pressure on the country as it retreated from empire, we often remained at arm’s
length.
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