1.   A very short length of cable is supplied with the machine, and this proved annoying unless an extension lead was used.

2.   For the benefit of the conductor, a short length of cord was spliced on and hung down over each doorway.

3.   The job can be greatly simplified if a few short lengths of plastic tubing are kept in stock.

4.   They are displayed whole at meat counters or are cut into short lengths and packaged.

5.   Three lanes lead off from it, four if you count the short length from the hospital.

6.   You could say that out of the simple song there came the poem capable of expressing in a short length deep thoughts.

7.   He took a short length of rope and swiftly tied a slip knot.

8.   An expressed sequence tag, or EST, is therefore a short length of DNA that does something in a given cell.

9.   A quartet of teen-age girls from China send dumbbell-size spools spinning along short lengths of rope that they hold between their hands.

10.   Compared with regular life insurance or medical insurance, the premium is indeed high for the short length of coverage, but there is no alternative at the moment.