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Example sentences for "certain length"

  • But after a certain length of time it goes away once more to make another sojourn upon earth, which is to be the last.

  • If we shut our hand gradually, or open it gradually, we find a certain series of feelings, varying with each degree of the opening or closing, and giving the notion of succession of a certain length.

  • A rack of lace, is a certain length of work counted perpendicularly, and contains 240 meshes or holes.

  • Those who are passed by should, after a certain length of service in their respective grades, be retired.

  • All begin to work at a given signal and the hostess allows a certain length of time for the dressmaking.

  • The guests are requested to find as many quotations as they can during a certain length of time.

  • Allow a certain length of time for the guesses, then collect the little books, and the player who has guessed the greatest number correctly receives a prize.

  • In breathing, we retain a portion of the oxygen, and expire the nitrogen gas; so that if we breathe in a closed vessel, for a certain length of time, the air within it will be deprived of its oxygen gas.

  • The most usual way is to infuse coarsely powdered oak bark in water, and to keep the skin immersed in this infusion for a certain length of time.

  • They may be separated by standing for a certain length of time exposed to the atmosphere; but this decomposition may be almost instantaneously effected by the chemical agency of a variety of substances.

  • After having practiced the movement for a certain length of time they could do it ever so much better than before.

  • After the lapse of a certain length of time human nature seems utterly incapable of further effort and they sink down exhausted.

  • The patient was required to learn words and then after a certain length of time was tested to see if he could learn a similar series with fewer repetitions than at first.

  • The above plan necessitates the employment of a primary of comparatively small size, and it is apt to heat when powerful effects are desirable for a certain length of time.

  • In this case it is also ascertained, that the filament in the small globe b is less deteriorated when maintained a certain length of time at incandescence.

  • It should also be stated that the arc should not exceed a certain length.

  • That is, many of them will not sprout until they have lain a certain length of time.

  • They also said that after a certain length of time there re-appeared another like this first one, or else he was the same, who also gave wise counsel and cured the sick.

  • He lived a certain length of time with his people and then left them, going back over the ocean toward the East, according to some accounts.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "certain length" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    certain articles; certain characters; certain death; certain degree; certain fixed; certain form; certain fungi; certain groups; certain length; certain moments; certain period; certain periods; certain person; certain place; certain portion; certain quantity; certain quarters; certain regions; certain rules; certain state; certain thing; certain village; certain young; feel inclined; rode away; that afternoon