They want to extend the 'length' of the school year. [=to make the school year longer; to lengthen the school year]
I've been/traveled 'the length and breadth of' the canyon, but I still haven't found the caves I'm looking for.
I managed to swim four 'lengths' of the pool. [=to swim from one end of the pool to the other end four times]
(..) was watching me. I would have realized something was wrong, 'cause that sort of thing gives me the skeevies. thinking about the length of Ray Singh's eyelashes. while he was reading Abelard and Heloise, the most seriously tragic love story ever. (..)2009 The Lovely Bones