put end to
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Vatican archivists took more than 14 years to ready the 2 million documents, which are organized in boxes that officials say stretch for 350 yards when put end to end.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 2, 2020
“Will the court live up to its mandate to put end to impunity for such crimes against humanity?” he said.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 22, 2018
It has been calculated that, if put end to end, the two rolls would make a strip more than eight feet long.
From The New Yorker ● May 6, 1955
Clark found by actual measurement that the roots of a large gourd, if put end to end, extended over 25 kilometers, and Nobbe gives 520 meters for the roots of a wheat.
From Disease in Plants by Ward, H. Marshall
In the aggregate the British successes in this region had in a week resulted in the capture of trenches which, if put end to end, would reach for a number of miles.
From The Story of the Great War, Volume VI (of VIII) History of the European War from Official Sources by Reynolds, Francis J. (Francis Joseph)
