Without further context (the wording in the sentence is rather unusual), this might be said, for example, by a man at a barber's or hair stylist's. It's his first time there, and there is some question about the exact length he wants - he wants it left long, so very little is to be taken off. After the barber works on him for a while, hardly cutting anything off, he asks the man: "Is this the length you want?
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