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  • adjective in combination Of the specified length.

Etymologies

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length +‎ -ed

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Examples

  • Basically it says there's maybe most of a hundred years worth of regular pumped oil available -- though that period will be lengthed as sources like Athasbasca increasingly come on line over time.

    Basic Oil Economics, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • All public buildings must purchase an appropriately-lengthed poem, have it beautiful typeset, print it on lovely paper, frame it elegantly and have it on display at a prominent place in the lobby along with the commissioned art that is already there.

    National Poetry Month : Kwame Dawes : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

  • That was attempted prior to the Great Depression and arguably deepened and lengthed that downturn tremendously.

    Sunday’s Breakfast Menu, Oct. 19 - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • PS Lady ApilihP is quite right about Haggises having differentially lengthed Legs as a special devolutionary adaptation, in order to swiftly run around Scottish Hills in order to evade pursuit by Gourmet-Predator wolves raincoaster

    Mr Brains’s Faggot Family of Doodys « raincoaster 2007

  • Because it is really four symphonic poems, named respectively 'Emerson,' 'Hawthorne,' 'The Alcotts,' and 'Thoreau': four full-lengthed portraits done with breadth, tenderness, and wit.

    "Classical" American Music, cont'd from July 5 post The Daily Growler 2006

  • Charles Ives's Four Transcriptions from Emerson, dated 1920, is a normal-lengthed piano sonata fashioned by its author out of the first movement of his vaster Concord Sonata.

    Blog Rolling The Daily Growler 2006

  • Obviously, Hughes was an energetic and driven fellow, if not a quirky to downright paranoid, but for the sake of a feature lengthed film, one has to decide which way to approach the story.

    The Aviator Jeffrey Hill 2005

  • They can be irresistibly funky (the title track), they can be heartbreakingly sad (the micro-lengthed Ron Dawn From Var) or they can be exactly what we wish the soundtrack to Grease was like

    The ‘Spray Q&A: Mother And The Addicts 2005

  • JaKeNaToR, I'm pretty sure writing that reasonably lengthed comment would have used up much more of your time than reading John's post and realising it's not what you want.

    What Makes Good Science Fiction? 2003

  • I have also retranslated the four-lengthed versions of the Six-Session Yoga and additional prayers with the same vocabulary system, so as to present consistent materials.

    Foreword to 1985 Translation of Graduated Kalachakra Sadhanas 1985

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