The original tram-line -- a modest 1.4km in length -- was extended in 2011 to incorporate an extra 1.1km.

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Their determination and astute running between the wickets enabled them to set a competitive total of 220-6, then maintained a tight line and length to restrict their rivals to 205-9 in reply.

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Among other things, when management installed slightly brighter light bulbs, or changed the length of assembly-line breaks during the work day, they noticed that productivity picked up.

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"We have a lot of fun with it, " said Ms. Batiz, who's been decamping with her husband at the Waldorf. (So I suppose business has to be pretty good.) In fact, she said she got into a conversation on the hotel's taxi line with an elegant woman in a full-length mink who asked her the nature of her company.

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Left-arm paceman Mitchell Johnson took 0-43 in seven overs, struggling for line and length.

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But he only survived 10 balls after the interval as Anderson, maintaining an immaculate line and length outside off stump, found the outside edge and Paul Collingwood - retaining the gloves while Matt Prior recovered from a badly-bruised finger - clung on to the catch.

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Shane Watson went for 20 in the penultimate over of the innings as he lost his line and length and bowled a series of wide full tosses that the Indian tail-enders merrily smeared through the covers and behind square.

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But that is only part of the spin bowler's art - and Muralitharan is also a master of the subtleties of flight, disguise, change of pace, line and length.

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