And, four minutes later, the alert Charnley pounced on a loose ball to go three quarters of the length of the field - to take his tally to 18 tries for the season.

BBC: Warrington 24-44 Wigan

He found Hercus in support and the fly-half looped out a sumptuous pass to right winger Ngwenya, who had half the length of the pitch to go and Habana to beat.

BBC: South Africa 64-15 USA

And many of these, though they all follow different paths, take the same, surprising, length of time to go round the sun: they complete exactly two orbits for each of Neptune's three.

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For months, all we had to go on was the length of that mythical piece of string - until yesterday.

BBC: Crunching encounters - and numbers

That marks a major turnaround for the French site, which doesn't limit the length of clips and has become a go-to spot for users uploading and viewing entire television shows and movies.

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They get out of their vehicles and if that's the length of a football pitch, they have to go, they make their way there.

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