Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv] longer " in BNC.
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| 1 | She also wore extremely high-heeled shoes that made her legs seem even longer . |
| 2 | The liver needs even longer to remove all the alcohol from that one night 's binge — about 13 hours . |
| 3 | Extension of the grounds for divorce took even longer to enact and was not achieved until 1937 . |
| 4 | P.P. 's responses had significantly longer latencies for the half-field contralateral to the lesion ( mean=1.84s , s.d. =1.67 ) compared to the good field ( mean=0.47s , s.d. =0.16 ; independent groups t=2.15 , P=0.05 ) , but there was no significant difference for L.A.H. ( affected field : mean=0.612s , s.d. =0.41 ; good field : mean=0.48 , s.d. =0.22 ) . |
| 5 | It is reasonable to suppose that these language users might ( even accidentally ) hit on new combinations of phrases to produce slightly longer sentences than had hitherto been the rule : sentences , moreover , whose newly-coined significance derived from both the context of their first use and the pre-established significance of their components . |
| 6 | Antarctic islands that lie north of the northern limit of pack ice have markedly longer summers and milder winters than those that are invested by pack ice . |
| 7 | Lesser goldern plovers Pluvialis dominica make long trans-oceanic flights ; Alaskan breeding stocks cross 4000 km of the Pacific from wintering in Hawaii , while Asian stocks make even longer journeys from New Zealand and Oceania to breed in Siberia . |
| 8 | Similarly , significantly more traffic was seen and the junction took significantly longer to pass through . |
| 9 | Yet it too must fit into the confines of Studio D. To increase its apparent depth several backdrops have been added to the sets , including one to make the corridors seem much longer . |
| 10 | After the early victories in Bath and Cheltenham , the faces of party supporters gathered at the Liberal Club in Mr Ashdown 's Yeovil constituency grew progressively longer as it became clear the predicted breakthrough was not going to happen . |
| 11 | After the early victories in Bath and Cheltenham , the faces of party supporters gathered at the Liberal Club in Mr Ashdown 's Yeovil constituency grew progressively longer as it became clear the predicted breakthrough was not going to happen . |
| 12 | In fact , as they are very difficult to sex — males have slightly longer finnage and slightly larger humping of the forehead — it is best to buy half a dozen young ones and let them pair naturally , usually when they get to 5–6″ , but sometimes as early as 4″ . |
| 13 | Males and females are similar in appearance , although the males have slightly longer claws . |
| 14 | Experienced angel breeders look at the length difference of the finnage — males have slightly longer fins and sometimes show a marginally lumpy head , though these are not reliable features . |
| 15 | However , this example serves to emphasize how misleading it can be to assume that the breeding sex ratio necessarily reflects the extent to which male reproductive success varies for , even among closely related species , it is likely to be the case that males have substantially longer breeding lifespans in monogamous species than in polygynous ones ( see Wiley , 1974 ; Clutton-Brock et al . , |
| 16 | Other differences are that males have much longer finnage , and also a much more humped forehead . |
| 17 | Patients had significantly longer transit times ( 9 v 7 and 17 v 11 seconds : p=0.027 and 0.002 for erect and supine postures respectively ) . |
| 18 | Patients had significantly longer median oesophageal transit times than controls in both erect and supine postures ( 9 v 7 and 17 v 11 seconds with the corresponding p=0.027 and 0.002 for erect and suppine postures respectively ) . |
| 19 | Well , I think Patrick stay much longer than half an hour |
| 20 | The four-year-old won a juvenile hurdle before that and it seems trainer Jimmy FitzGerald has brought about considerable improvement by asking his four-year-old to tackle much longer distances on the Flat than last year . |
| 21 | It is not surprising that the women who had epidural analgesia had significantly longer labours , a greater requirement for oxytocin , and a higher rate of instrumental delivery as such factors increase the need for epidural analgesia and therefore can not be assumed to result from it . |
| 22 | What we know less about is why some people expend energy in short bursts while others sustain much longer bursts . |
| 23 | The effect of the risk factors on the time to healing was cumulative : patients with one , two , and three or more risk factors needed progressively longer courses of treatment to achieve ulcer healing ( Fig 3 ) . |
| 24 | And since some senators had much longer names than others , jealousies soon arose . |
| 25 | And his 59 League goals are still within our top five since the war , although all the others had rather longer Palace careers than he did . |
| 26 | The statistics do not show drives getting much longer , says the club . |