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Example sentences for "its length"

  • Of late years, the market has dwindled into insignificance, but the parish is the most extensive in Derbyshire; its length is more than 20 miles, and its breadth upwards of eight.

  • It has fifteen arches; its length being 1164 feet, and its breadth seventeen.

  • Its length, when suitable for use, is about four inches.

  • It differs from the London Long Green and the Long Green Turkey in its form, which is much thicker in proportion to its length; and also in the character of its flesh, which is more pulpy and seedy.

  • When matured in good soil, its length is from eighteen inches to two feet; and its diameter, which is retained for more than half its length, is from four to five inches.

  • Its length shall be two and a half cubits, its breadth a cubit and a half, and a cubit and a half its height.

  • It was square: its length was a cubit, and its breadth a cubit.

  • Two and a half cubits shall be its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth.

  • Its length shall be a cubit, and its breadth a cubit.

  • Two cubits shall be its length, and a cubit its breadth, and one and a half cubits its height.

  • The conductivity of a wire depends upon its material, its cross-section, its length, and its temperature.

  • Conductivity of a copper wire, for example, increases in direct ratio to its weight, in inverse ratio to its length, and its conductivity falls as the temperature rises.

  • The prominence of the crest of the sternum, relatively to its length, is also much reduced in all the domestic breeds.

  • The whole pelvis in this latter bird differed widely in its proportions, being far broader proportionally to its length than in Bankiva.

  • I have also measured in twenty-one birds, including the above dozen, the prominence of the crest of the sternum relatively to its length, independently of the size of the body.

  • It was a pencil-shaped rigid structure, about four hundred and twenty feet long, with a diameter almost exactly one-eleventh part of its length.

  • At about a fourth of its length a small ring is formed, by the assistance of the round pincers or pliers, and the other end is pointed with a file.

  • It is the progressive diffusion of its detritus from superior to inferior positions in its length.

  • Its length is nine-tenths of an inch, its greatest width six and a half tenths of an inch, and the bore of the tube two-tenths of an inch.

  • Its length is about two hundred miles, and it is navigable for half that distance.

  • For about two-thirds of its length--from its beginning to Khush Yailak--the third section consists of three principal ranges connected by lateral ranges and spurs.

  • The island of Cuba being surrounded with shoals and breakers along more than two-thirds of its length, and as ships keep out beyond those dangers, the real shape of the island was for a long time unknown.

  • The mean breadth of the island, on four-fifths of its length, between the Havannah and Puerto Principe, is 15 leagues.

  • The explanation is that a pendulum has a certain natural frequency which depends upon its length.

  • This groove forms a spiral, passing round and round like the thread of a screw, and it encircles the cylinder one hundred times in every inch of its length.

  • It is given a slight slope in the direction at right angles to its length--that is to say, one edge is a little lower than the other.

  • Its length is in some cases 45 calibres and in others 50 calibres.

  • Spanish and English settlements; its length undetermined, as being altogether unknown.

  • The river of the Illinois comes from the east, and takes its rise on the frontiers of Canada; its length is two hundred leagues.

  • Its length, taken from the point of the arm to the point of the buttock inclusive.

  • This expresses, by its length, the duration of the period of pressure of the right foot.

  • In the ox the long extensor of the toes is united above, and for a great part of its length, with the portion of the tibialis anticus, which represents, albeit in the fleshy state, the tendinous cord of the latter in the horse.

  • The iron road in war is an army's jugular vein, and each mile added to its length was of enormous value during the advance.

  • In five hours small parties had worked along the ridge for about half its length, fighting every yard, and it was not until the approach of dusk that we once more got control of the whole ridge.

  • This is a solid bar of hardwood about seven feet long, about two inches in diameter in the middle third, and some three or four inches in diameter in the rest of its length.

  • The scarp or steeply inclined slope; this is necessarily of small extent except in the direction of its length.

  • This latter carries the telescope, which, supported at the centre of its length, is free to rotate in a vertical plane.

  • The valley, composed of two lateral parallel slopes inclined towards a narrow strip of plain at a lower level which itself slopes downwards in the direction of its length.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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