mean length of utterance

What is most troubling is our – and I do mean “our” and not “their” – never treating these situations as learning opportunities.

It ended on a complaint that she was 'tired rather and spending my time at full length on a deck-chair in the garden.'

Hilda, trembling at the door, more than half expected Mr. Orgreave to say: "You mean, she's invited herself."

He wanted to tell her that if she called her father, it would mean the end of everything for them, but he withheld this.

These sections also have vibrations of their own which are of shorter length and more rapid motion.

Besides this fundamental or primary vibration, the movement divides itself into segments, or sections, of the entire length.