Lengthy
Lengthy adjective - Of great extent from end to end.
Usage example: she used a lengthy piece of rope to tie her dog to a tree
Minute
Minute adjective - Including many small descriptive features.
Both words in one sentence
- Miniscule Rocking: Reason is single refrain, 8 lines long, and has no lengthy intros, extros, solos or bridges meaning that it doesn't even last half a minute.
Source: Music / Wuthering Heights - Four minutes of the song's nearly nine-minute run time is a lengthy breakdown of a single repeated whisper as the instrumentation degrades into discordant, disturbing electronic noise.
Source: Last Note Nightmare - This reached a fever pitch on Yes Sir, I Will, where all the tracks were considered part of one lengthy composition that took up the entire album (a forty-three-minute running time).
Source: Siamese Twin Songs
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