Sentences with phrase «long piece of string»

You can tie a long piece of string to a doorknob or even loop it around a chair.

The students held one long piece of string around the circle.

A digital camera, a big kite or a helium balloon, and a really, really long piece of string.

All you would need is a long piece of string and scissors.

Seymour took out a foot - long piece of string and held it in the air between himself and the driver's back.

And dangling from one of the longest pieces of string in -LSB-...]

Not exact matches

To make 4 packets, cut 8 pieces of string about 6 inches long.

Roll the dough to be about half centimeter thick (or less if you would like to have more swirls seen in the profile) and to be as long as the inner perimeter of your baking dish (use a piece of string to measure it).

• Cut a one - meter - long piece of kite string.

Sequencing devices take long strings of a person's DNA and randomly chop them into small pieces that can be individually analyzed to determine their sequence of letters from the genetic code (A, C, G and T representing the four key components of DNA that code for protein production in living organisms: adenine, cytosine, guanine and thymine).

The program tries to find shortcuts to store an image in the smallest number of bits — the more complex the piece, the longer the string of digits used to store the painting on the hard drive, offering a more objective measure that human judgement.

The UGA researchers discovered that long filaments — that look like beads on a string — form by budding from the flagellum of African trypanosomes and then release pieces of the parasite into the host.

Apologies for the lack of clarity, but how long is a piece of string?

I then added each one to a long piece of embroidery string — using a needle made it so much easier to fish the string through those little holes!

Finally, I strung the beads onto a long piece of embroidery floss to finish my air - dry clay necklace.

Finally, Robert Eggers is the graceful hand pulling the strings, giving us some of the most disturbing set - pieces you'll likely ever see in a period piece, including a possession scene that overcomes cliche and exaggeration and remains in your mind long after it unfolds.

Yes it's more than two and a half hours long (and, by the way, could do with pruning) but Maren Ade's comedy boasts two fascinating characters and a string of surreal set - pieces that you can't afford to miss.

-- Only 55 percent of 8th graders taking the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) exam in math correctly answered the question, «How many pieces of string will you have if you divide 3/4 yard of string into pieces each 1/8 yard long?»

Periodically, team members will meet to tie together the pieces of yarn they have collected to form one long continuous piece of string.

You should also consider breaking long strings of content into bite - sized pieces.

With a choice of 18 - or 20 - inch wheels / tires, regular or continuously - variable dampers, driver - selectable Tour or Sport modes, and unique rear sub-frame bushings on the Platinum — well, how long is a piece of string?

As Mark Croker says, longer books sell better... take that into account too, when you're measuring your piece of string.

While it may be tempting to purchase the really cheap dollar store cat toys, they are typically cheaply made and fall apart easily, leaving the cat open to choking on the pieces of long string, foil parts, and ribbon can cause all kinds of problems including causing your cat to need expensive surgery to correct blocked intestines or other dangerous problems.

Along with that little bit of metal, (which was the post off of an LED from my work bench) when the vet had opened him up he also removed: Two shoe lace pieces 3 - 4 inches long, several of the tails off of his little toy mice, and a few pieces of a fleece string toy that added up to about 6 inches in length.

A linear object is something long and thin, like a piece of string or fabric (think: Toby's fave, dental floss).

String a long piece of cord through the holes so that the bottle dangles when you pull both ends taut, securing the cord between two chairs so the bottle hangs in the center.

As someone who loved the super-short Thirty Flights of Loving just as much as the timesink that is Destiny, I'm going to sit on the fence on this one and say «how long is a piece of string?»

Long created this sculpture using a piece of string with which he had measured a walk up Silbury Hill in a straight line, spiralling it round on the gallery floor before pacing its length with muddy boots, which left a residue of light - coloured clay.

Artist Cornelia Parker wrapped the famous piece in a mile - long spool of string for display in a modern art exhibition at London's Tate Britain art gallery.

A double sense of explosive fragmentation and re-constitution is evinced by the long piece of rough string in «Millefleur» (2012), which precariously clings to the canvas under a layer of tar - like black paint, forming the outline of a figure.

Although setting fixed fees for defended court actions can be challenging, we knew that the «how long is a piece of string» answer just wasn't good enough when clients asked about costs.

How long is a piece of string!

How long do you wait, is like asking how long is a piece of string: -LRB-

A process is a long as a piece of string, and something that we weave together.

It belonged to my husbands grandfather and it is old with lots of charm (no longer has strings but it would be a statement / conversation piece).

Cut two piece of string longer than the width of the grey card.