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  • See how the legs lengthened and jointed themselves, bending beneath the throne as though to leap upward. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
  • But there is simply not time to lengthen the prices of the others. The Sun
  • He must have been very drunk, for at last the heavy sleep gripped him with the suddenness of a magic spell, and the last word lengthened itself into an interminable, noisy, in-drawn snore. Youth And Two Other Stories
  • The roundaboutness of the entire production structure is lengthened. Mises Dailies
  • They are rather fanatical about lengthening their own lives and fending off death indefinitely.
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  • As I kept pointing out on CH4 course bookmakers just kept shortening up odds without lengthening others. The Sun
  • There are jobs to be done as days lengthen and the rate of growth increases.
  • The potential financial implications of our lengthening lives are terrifying. Times, Sunday Times
  • Climatically, the gradual change view of the future assumes that agriculture will continue to thrive and growing seasons will lengthen.
  • Digital modification stands in for genetic, and so the animals are lengthened, spiralled or moved across the picture plane as if a magnetic force - an exterior one - operated.
  • The call lengthened into a visit, and as the Baroness finally rose to go, Joy said: An Ambitious Man
  • Lengthening and broadening of fins is not proof of flight, either. Did ichthyosaurs fly? Probably not, no
  • Reddish white light flickers from the cupridium, seemingly lengthening the blade, until it is almost a lance. The Magi'i Of Cyador
  • -- If the appropriation were so given the University would be destroyed and the public school term lengthened a day and a half. History of the University of North Carolina. Volume II: From 1868 to 1912
  • The assistant chief watched as she was forced to reclean toilets and showers and was then punished further by being ordered to clean long-neglected storage rooms, light fixtures, and so on, in an ever-lengthening list of humiliating chores. Getting Even
  • This would then lengthen the period that the Government would be responsible for care costs. Times, Sunday Times
  • The excavated ground is used for backfilling a low area at the end of the runway for the purpose of lengthening it.
  • Rather, my instinct is telling me that the "ablautless" forms are coloured by uvulars, hence *-a-, and that ablauting forms stem from a lengthened Narten present, *ɢēb- or *gʰēbʰ- in traditional notation, since it's already been established by other IEists that long vowels are not affected by laryngeal colouring and thus, by extension, they wouldn't be affected by uvular colouring. PIE *kap- and *ghabh-
  • I believe that the need for saving has grown tremendously over the past century, primarily because the lifespan has lengthened and more medical care for the elderly is available and desired. Forced Savings vs. Social Security, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
  • In the case of the early lengthening steps, the value of L p is low, suggesting that perhaps half of the structure either unfolds or desorbs to a random coil configuration with little hindered movement.
  • The diphthongs ayyy and eeee turn up again and again, long vowels lengthened by slow consonants around them.
  • Instead, try short angled casts along the near bank, lengthening each cast to thoroughly search the margins.
  • - Severly decreased the cost of building cags, but lengthened the time to be similar to carrier builds. 4Players.de News
  • The sense of calm and silence, the great waste of sea, the monotonous 'plash' of the paddle-wheels, the sort of solitude in the midst of such a crowd, the gradually lengthening distance behind, with the lessening, as gradual, in front, and the always novel feeling of approach to a new country -- these elements impart a sort of dreamy, poetical feeling to the scene. A Day's Tour A Journey through France and Belgium by Calais, Tournay, Orchies, Douai, Arras, Béthune, Lille, Comines, Ypres, Hazebrouck, Berg
  • Objective To reconstruct a penis with sensation and erectile function maintained by corpora cavernosa lengthening and skin flap transferring in the penis defect cases.
  • It would certainly lengthen the time required to obtain approval from the FDA to license new medicines, and it would have a catastrophic impact on the huge and growing backlog at the U.S. Patents Office. Scott Lilly: Draconian but Expensive: Boehner's Poorly Considered 'Pledge' Is Likely to Increase the Deficit
  • The shadows lengthened with the approach of sunset.
  • Odds are your suitcases will greet you when you deplane, but those odds lengthen when applied to more unorthodox baggage, which surely will come under careful inspection.
  • The period of costly childhood dependency was further lengthened by the introduction of compulsory education from 1880.
  • The lengthening of the days and the anticipation of the new season's produce perk us all up in the restaurants. Times, Sunday Times
  • We fear that they will first lengthen the third runway and then build a fourth. Times, Sunday Times
  • 2 For a brief definition of the term compensatory lengthening and some interesting examples of it, see an abstract of Campos-Astorkiza, "A Typological analysis of compensatory consonant lengthening", Phonology and Phonetics in Iberia (June 2005) (or view the pdf here). Archive 2008-06-01
  • With shadows lengthening, there was only 90 minutes until dusk. Times, Sunday Times
  • Teach the client to reach away from the body in the sagittal plane and lengthen the spine.
  • He found Tigress sitting in the outer room. She glanced at him and her face lengthened.
  • It finally died as the shadows lengthened. Times, Sunday Times
  • If the stride needs lengthening, squeeze with your legs to encourage it to do so. Times, Sunday Times
  • In the city centre, people chopped at hedges for firewood as power cuts lengthened. Times, Sunday Times
  • As Warren relayed, the homeowner was sophisticated enough to recognize that his interest rate would be doubled and his term lengthened so that he would in fact lose his home sooner and the lender would own his valuable property. Veterans Today
  • His lamentation is lengthened and restlessness is strengthened and he is as he were The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • The odds on the industry surviving in its current form are lengthening by the day. Times, Sunday Times
  • It all takes on a strangely peaceful air as the sun sets and the shadows lengthen, with the only sound the scratchy hiss of crickets. Times, Sunday Times
  • The new species is highly adapted to hypogean life with very obvious troglobiomorphic features: unpigmented cuticle, an extraordinary lengthening of thorax and appendixes, multiplication of antennomeres and supernumerary placoid sensilla, not just in the apical antennomere but also in the preceding antennomeres. Archive 2007-01-01
  • By tillage, create a rough, cloddy surface which lengthens the time necessary for the rain to break down the clods and seal the surface. 28 additional technical notes about tropical agriculture
  • And the appeal deadline period should be lengthened from 28 days to three months. The Sun
  • See how the legs lengthened and jointed themselves, bending beneath the throne as though to leap upward. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
  • But there is simply not time to lengthen the prices of the others. The Sun
  • Hypercarnivory is recognized on the basis of a set of proportions: relative lengthening of the carnassial blade, relative shortening of the face, and relative reduction of the postcarnassial tooth row.
  • And, in fact, since the early 1990s interest rates have fallen and loan maturities have lengthened on average.
  • Consider the tactics of advanced placement, the ungraded high school as newly proposed, and the lengthening school year.
  • -- In this word the diphthong ue is entirely sunk, as well as in the words dialogue, synagogue, &c; out in the words prorogue, disembogue, &c., it is not entirely sunk, for it has the evident effect of lengthening the final syllable. The Scholar's Spelling Assistant; Wherein the Words Are Arranged on an Improved Plan, According to Their Respective Principles of Accentuation. In a Manner Calculated to Familiarize the Art of Spelling and Pronunciation, to Remove Difficulties, and to
  • The days start to lengthen in March.
  • However, unlengthened schwa moves frontward and merges with pre-existing *e, not *a. Nominative Lengthening and a reinterpretation of Szemerenyi's Law
  • If you play this variation, you can sometimes use a joker profitably to lengthen one of your suits.
  • His snoring death rattle came at lengthening intervals until it stopped altogether. Times, Sunday Times
  • The runways were lengthened and tarpaper shacks and other buildings were built in a matter of a few months.
  • The stalk lengthens as the fetus develops within its amniotic sac, and at the uterine end the blood vessels become part of the developing placenta.
  • In Spring, the days lengthen
  • Tropylium: "An idea that intrigues me would be non-compensatory lengthening based on foot type considerations, similar to the theory of gradation by fortition proposed for Finno-Samic. A few more words on my new Gemination rule for Pre-IE
  • In saucy improvised couplets the troubadour called upon one and another to join the dancing, until before any one quite knew what was happening, the company in the lower hall was drawn into a winding lengthening line following the leaders in a sort of farandole. Masters of the Guild
  • The period of costly childhood dependency was further lengthened by the introduction of compulsory education from 1880.
  • There are many shallow bays within the river system, and as the days lengthen, and the strength of the sun increases, the slowly circulating flows of the bays warm up, helped normally by a warm south-west wind.
  • A small additional amount of flattening and lengthening, with a corresponding increase of the supraciliary ridge, would convert the Australian brain case into a form identical with that of the aberrant fossil. Essays
  • Cover Girl's newest installment of it's popular LashBlast mascara, LashBlast Fusion, is meant to both volumize and lengthen lashes. Product Girl
  • He will lengthen his nose to allow him to nuzzle and may make nudging movements with his head to attract attention.
  • Objective: Varicose vein is a collective term which describes the distension , lengthening and tortuosity of veins.
  • With average lifespans lengthening, more plan beneficiaries are retiring than dying.
  • The nylon / Lycra bandeau tankini ($92; at Macy's West stores) adds shape on the top with a built-in bra, while the low-rise bottom lengthens your torso.
  • And yet there was a certain ascetic lengthening of the lines of his face. Chapter 20: A Lost Oligarch
  • Exercise does not lengthen your life. Times, Sunday Times
  • The objection here is to lengthening short vowels; this is not a feature of Koranic recitation today except in very restricted contexts.
  • December 21st gives us the longest night of the year, then the days lengthen and daylight increases.
  • Innumerable other needless lengthenings might be produced, from which we choose only preventative for preventive, and to experimentalize for to experiment. Formations.
  • Try to adopt positions of relaxation and lengthening. Repetitive Strain Injury
  • For me, low-rise jeans are a godsend because they help lengthen my waistline and give the illusion of more balanced proportions.
  • As I kept pointing out on CH4 course bookmakers just kept shortening up odds without lengthening others. The Sun
  • With medical advances lengthening the average life span, the percentage of old people in the population was rising. The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1877
  • Extension associated with lengthening of the Himalayan collision orogen is accommodated by small graben and rifts almost at right angles to the strike of the collision zone.
  • Asia seems well-situated to capitalize on the lengthening of services supply chains. Now Comes the Global Revolution in Services
  • Chariots and horsemen, men and maidens, the grim visages of age and the dusky beauty of youth, in lengthened procession, with palms, and music, and benediction, in behalf of that early world paid the last tribute to a great and just benefactor, to a builder Abraham Lincoln: The Just Magistrate, the Representative Statesman, the Practical Philanthropist
  • With shadows lengthening, there was only 90 minutes until dusk. Times, Sunday Times
  • This can be done with a cute cardigan or blazer with undone buttons; this look will also lengthen your shape.
  • PERFECT IN - Ī WITH LENGTHENING OF STEM VOWEL. veniō venīre vēnī ventum (est) _come_ adveniō advenīre advēnī adventum (est) _arrive_ inveniō invenīre invēnī inventus _find_ New Latin Grammar
  • Her visit had been lengthened beyond the term allowed; now she must obey the summons without further delay. Lady Rosamond's Secret A Romance of Fredericton
  • The unemployment queues lengthened and the howls from main street were deafening. Times, Sunday Times
  • An idea that intrigues me would be non-compensatory lengthening based on foot type considerations, similar to the theory of gradation by fortition proposed for Finno-Samic. A few more words on my new Gemination rule for Pre-IE
  • Shadows lengthen, and not just because it's autumn. Times, Sunday Times
  • With medical advances lengthening the average life span, the percentage of old people in the population was rising. The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1877
  • While we aren't thrilled about the idea of lengthening the election season, we think it's the best way to address the situation until technological advances make overseas voting less cumbersome. Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local
  • And he is convinced his single-minded approach will not just lengthen his career but his life. The Sun
  • The word Lent, however, comes from the Anglo-Saxon word lengthen, which means: Spring. The Origins of Easter | myFiveBest
  • The wavelengths of the radio waves emitted by the pulsar are lengthened as a result of the effects of the gravitational field of the companion star (gravitational redshift).
  • It places more or less equal stress on all syllables, usually with the final syllable of a tone unit somewhat lengthened.
  • It all takes on a strangely peaceful air as the sun sets and the shadows lengthen, with the only sound the scratchy hiss of crickets. Times, Sunday Times
  • The rear set of wings was almost nonexistent and the tail's ‘fin’ was beginning to lengthen in the middle while the sides splayed outward.
  • Reified levels of generational cohorts are now living side by side, as new generations are being birthed while multiple older generations still remain, in testimony to ever lengthening lifespans.
  • Shenstone describes in his "Thoughts on Gardening," several artifices that he put in practice for increasing the apparent distance of objects, or for lengthening the perspective of an avenue by widening it in the foreground and planting it there with dark-foliaged trees, like yews and firs, "then with trees more and more fady, till they end in the almond-willow or silver osier. A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century
  • However, the antecedent of sigmatic aorists ie. those verbs marked in *-s- with lengthened root vowel which originally expressed a past experience were by definition eventive as well. Archive 2009-09-01
  • The afternoon was well advanced: the light like gauze on the bricks and leaves, the shadows lengthening.
  • Those whose operations and appointments are put off may be returned to the back of lengthening queues, insiders say. The Sun
  • Exercise has been observed to reduce sleep latency and lengthen time spent asleep.
  • Tying my shoes is a challenging task, but most of my shoes don't fit anyway (ligaments stretch all over the body causing your feet to widen and/or lengthen). Pregnancy update: 33 weeks
  • Opponents claim that fracking will industrialise the countryside and lengthen our dependence on fossil fuels. Times, Sunday Times
  • Focus on swinging back and through the same amount, lengthening your stroke as the putts get longer.
  • There exist three types of segmental lengthening in oral Chinese, each one matched with certain prosodic events and characterized by their own distinctive temporal variations.
  • In addition, the timing of an ultradian rhythm, the defecation cycle, is lengthened compared to wild type.
  • Try to adopt positions of relaxation and lengthening. Repetitive Strain Injury
  • The IRS would then move to close these loopholes, a process that will take years, the number of years lengthened, of course, by even beadier-eyed (but better dressed) attorneys who will use every legal dodge in their legal dodge bag of tricks in order to save their rich clients 'untaxed wealth so as to mightily increase their own. The Moderate Voice
  • His beautiful artistic hands began to lengthen, his claws replacing his nails.
  • If the stride needs lengthening, squeeze with your legs to encourage it to do so. Times, Sunday Times
  • The lawmakers elected for the Seventh Legislature will enter office in 2008, and the lawmakers' tenures beginning with the Seventh Legislature would be lengthened from three to four years.
  • Then, as the candles burnt and the shadows lengthened, we started to think about it properly.
  • It is of significant importance to lengthen the forecasting years.
  • It will continue to sell assets and is asking its lending banks to lengthen repayment periods for its debt. Times, Sunday Times
  • He shortened its legs so that it could burrow after rabbits and lengthened them so that it could overhaul the antelope. Times, Sunday Times
  • I adore the fit, cut and wash of these Gap jeans because they lengthen my silhouette, the high-rise backside provides ample coverage and the elastane lends a touch of stretch. Felicia C. Sullivan: The Epic Ten: What You Should Covet in 2010
  • It was so tough that to lengthen a sleeve, for example, you simply butted the new section to the old and sewed them together.
  • To save time is to lengthen life. 
  • They certainly lengthen your stride, strengthen your muscles and make you work harder. The Sun
  • Long words should be shortened (totes, obv, ridic, tuck, defo) and short words should be lengthened (faberoonie, drinkies, chaterama). Times, Sunday Times
  • It, however, succeeded in lengthening the voyage four days. In Seven Stages: A Flying Trip Around the World
  • As lifespans continuing to lengthen - and the definition of family takes on expanded meaning - we are likely to see households of up to four generations.
  • Tightened security on domestic flights has lengthened the turnaround time for aircraft.
  • Beside him strode his shadow, and lengthened as the sun westered in a haze of potable gold. Brother Copas
  • The twilight, lengthening from the shortest day a fortnight before, was but just sufficient to reveal the outline of objects. MacMillan's Reading Books Book V
  • I lengthened my stride and it did the trick. Times, Sunday Times
  • It all takes on a strangely peaceful air as the sun sets and the shadows lengthen, with the only sound the scratchy hiss of crickets. Times, Sunday Times
  • “The choice we appear to be making is trying to modify our way out of this, which has the effect of lengthening the crisis,” said Kevin Katari, managing member of Watershed Asset Management, a San Francisco-based hedge fund. Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Black Swan
  • If the supershort schwa is word-medial, it lengthens an accented vowel in an immediately-preceding open syllable, otherwise all supershort schwas geminate the immediately-preceding consonant instead. Archive 2008-07-01
  • Finally, word-final supershort schwas in penultimate-accented words never trigger vowel lengthening even though the preceding vowel is accented probably because gemination is the default and favoured process. Archive 2008-07-01
  • But a drop-pearl hanging to the septum is at least as pretty as the heavy pendants by which some European women lengthen their ears. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • If the facility is moved to Brooklyn, all interborough mail would be sent there and then back to Queens, lengthening delivery times. NYDN Rss
  • This will only lengthen the time taken to deal with matters and will soon bring the procedure into disrepute. Personnel Management: A New Approach
  • The unions stepped up their industrial action and the waiting lists lengthened further.
  • The footplate moved up and down so it alternately bent and straightened the ankle, forcing the fibres within the muscles to alternately lengthen and shorten.
  • We shall say this year, with exactly the same accents of relief and hope as our pagan ancestors used, and as the woaded savage used: "The days will begin to lengthen now! The Feast of St. Friend
  • The letter D develops gradually the uncial form ... by lengthening the upper stroke of the bow.
  • However, the odds are also lengthening to a one in 28,000 chance of any prize as the numbers of winners next month reduces.
  • Can you lengthen this skirt for me?
  • But a person familiar with the BOJ's thinking said that some central bankers aren't sure whether taking further easing steps such as lengthening the loan duration is worth it, considering the trouble it could cause for money markets. BOJ Looks Set to Add Funds to Lending Facility
  • It was a strange and frightful spectacle — the small, bunk-lined space, the floor and walls leaping and lurching, the dim light, the swaying shadows lengthening and fore-shortening monstrously, the thick air heavy with smoke and the smell of bodies and iodoform, and the inflamed faces of the men — half-men, I should call them. Chapter 26
  • It will continue to sell assets and is asking its lending banks to lengthen repayment periods for its debt. Times, Sunday Times
  • Streamlining should include lengthening the probationary period, elevating the standard for moving from nontenured to tenured status, and integrating a growth model of student achievement as a proportional, not primary, piece of the evaluation system. The myth of teacher tenure
  • In Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices, and Organ, Reich then develops the piece by overlaying augmentations of the musical pattern - lengthening of the note values to create a subjective slowing-down.
  • The odds against their survival have lengthened.
  • The assailant was wearing a hooded cloak and the setting sun had lengthened the shadow covering his face.
  • I lengthened my stride and it did the trick. Times, Sunday Times
  • Marion A. Wright, Council president in 1952 wrote "SRC is the lengthened shadow of many men and women. Using our Past to Build the Future
  • During and after tapping, the furnace is 'turned around': the slag door is cleaned of solidified slag, repairs may take place, and electrodes are inspected for damage or lengthened through the addition of new segments; the taphole is filled with sand at the completion of tapping. Electric Arc Furnace (EAF)
  • The underworked muscles become lax and will lengthen, and the overworked ones shorten and will become tight.
  • Barrels have ventilated ribs, hard-chromed bores, interchangeable choke tubes (three provided) and lengthened forcing cones to reduce recoil.
  • The second register of notes, which by this lengthening of pipe started from B natural, received the name of clarinet, or clarionet, from the clarino or clarion, the high solo trumpet of the time it was expected that this bright harmonic series would replace. Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891
  • The word prolong means "to lengthen or extend in time or space. Lorna Bright: What do The Ten Commandments Have to Say About Living a Balanced Life? Honor Your Mother and Father
  • Close connection: There is, you see, a close connection between today's curriculum wars and the lengthening lists of impermissible thoughts, between the assault on "Eurocentrism" and the assault on free speech. Curdled Politics On Campus
  • I have always had to lengthen the shoulder-straps of my camiknickers so that the gusset is not pulled up too tightly for comfort.
  • Raglan's face lengthened, and I saw an almost pettish set to his mouth as he said: The Sky Writer
  • It moves in lengthened elegiac measure like a song of lamentation for the dead, and is full of lofty scorn" [Herder]. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • And the appeal deadline period should be lengthened from 28 days to three months. The Sun
  • Then, the legs tauten, the balance shifts into the balls of the feet, the torso seems to lengthen, and suddenly someone has a leg against her ear. Larissa Archer: Lines Ballet's Resin Breaks Down Ballet's Conventions
  • This cornemuse had but one drone which could, like the others, be lengthened for tuning by drawing out the joint; the reed was not a beating-reed but a double reed like that of the chaunter; this constitutes the main difference between the two cornemuses. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"
  • So in theory, you can lengthen your life. The Sun
  • As the list of lies lengthens, the insult to us expands.
  • There's just a touch of power in the sun now, a reassurance that the planet is moving on, tilting towards the light, lengthening the days and getting ready for Spring.
  • Sorry to bring up smoking again, but smoking reduces your resistance to bugs, lowers the body's ability to expel the mucus and lengthens recovery time.
  • The new species is highly adapted to hypogean life with very obvious troglobiomorphic features: unpigmented cuticle, an extraordinary lengthening of thorax and appendixes, multiplication of antennomeres and supernumerary placoid sensilla, not just in the apical antennomere but also in the preceding antennomeres. Archive 2007-01-01
  • I have short lashes and this lengthens and thickens them.
  • This case was not lengthened or complicated by the allegations of fraudulent misrepresentation.
  • The popularity of the Pilates workout is its potential to change the body shape, stretch and lengthen the muscles, improve the posture and strengthen the conditioning.
  • I have short lashes and this lengthens and thickens them.
  • This transition is under endogenous control, but is modulated by more or less favourable environmental conditions which shorten or lengthen this period.
  • The road itself lengthens when the pavers put down new asphalt at its terminus.
  • On the beach greet the lengthening days by giving up your lantern to be burnt on the bonfire. Times, Sunday Times
  • Many European countries adapted this simplest chordophone, adding strings, frets, lengthening or shortening the strings, and changing the body's shape.
  • There are many shallow bays within the river system, and as the days lengthen, and the strength of the sun increases, the slowly circulating flows of the bays warm up, helped normally by a warm south-west wind.
  • First found in Chinese alchemical works emphasizing the lengthening of life and the search for immortality, medical alchemy was integrated first into Islamic and then into Western alchemy and medicine. Alchemy
  • Only the gilding of the room in some degree brought itself into keeping with the splendours outside, stray darts of light seizing upon it and lengthening themselves out along fillet, quirk, arris, and moulding, till wasted away. The Hand of Ethelberta
  • It's been known for some time that when people are denied photoperiodic cues their rhythms tend to lengthen, usually stabilizing between twenty-seven and thirty-six hours. Starfish
  • Theoretically, this angle can lengthen a contracted scar by about 75 percent and reorient the direction of the central wound by 90 degrees.
  • Wage premiums are to be axed and working hours lengthened.
  • Second, the Deficit Reduction Act of 1984 lengthened the recovery period for realty from 15 to 18 years.
  • It would be easy to lengthen out our historiette into one of circumstantial evidence, trial, condemnation, and ultimate discovery; but we have preferred telling it as it really happened. The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 1, August 1850 of Literature, Science and Art.
  • And as the dole queues lengthen, labour unrest is growing. Times, Sunday Times
  • Other factors contribute to lengthening postdoc training.
  • I need to lengthen this skirt.
  • In nature, a chromosome can be lengthened by the enzyme telomerase, which adds new TTAGGG sequences to the end of the telomere.
  • Varicose veins are tortuous, twisted, or lengthened veins.
  • The stamens have ripened and been pushed off by the lengthened pistil, which is brushed by the back of the bee, and thus is pollinated. The First Book of Farming
  • She lengthens her legs down the mattress, sets the four muffin halves side by side on the white cloth napkin that he's unfolded for her, lain over her thighs like a tablecloth. Featherbedding
  • To save time is to lengthen life. 
  • Waiting times for treatment in emergency departments, for the diagnosis and treatment of cancer and for surgery are lengthening. Times, Sunday Times
  • She leaned forward and Hope immediately lengthened her strides and stretched forward.
  • As the shadows lengthened, so did the chances of a winner for either side. Times, Sunday Times
  • This movement lengthens your spine and tones the spinal nerves.
  • As the shadows lengthened, so did the chances of a winner for either side. Times, Sunday Times
  • His strides lengthened and he picked up his pace, as if eager to reach our destination.
  • A little perspective and a dollop of humility will go a long way in lengthening a career. Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » I Dreamed A Dream
  • These bands are shorter than the other coats of the intestine, and serve to produce the sacculi which are characteristic of the cecum and colon; accordingly, when they are dissected off, the tube can be lengthened, and its sacculated character disappears. XI. Splanchnology. 2h. The Large Intestine
  • On the beach greet the lengthening days by giving up your lantern to be burnt on the bonfire. Times, Sunday Times
  • This will only lengthen the time taken to deal with matters and will soon bring the procedure into disrepute. Personnel Management: A New Approach
  • They lengthened the course by adding some tees and added subtle mounding to the fairways to modernize the course so it wouldn't appear so flat.

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