Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adv] longer " in BNC.
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| 1 | The even more extraordinary notion , that clients ' opinions could be used to reshape social work practice into a more effective intervention , and that social policy itself could be responsive to the views of its recipients , has taken even longer to achieve respectability amongst social commentators . |
| 2 | Erm ah , now that erm I think I was reasonably happy most of the time , erm I know if I can sort of look at the other side of the coin erm , I became a bit apprehensive as the war went on and er , obviously it was n't going to last much longer . |
| 3 | The pockets and waistband take slightly longer to dry out completely . |
| 4 | ‘ But it 's going to put an awful lot of island people to a lot of trouble , and it will mean many hundreds of them will have to wait even longer for jobs now . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Without it you 'd … you might have … you 'd have taken far longer to get well . ’ |
| 6 | The pattern of changes in structure , style , attitudes and behaviour that were eventually achieved would probably not have been possible , or would have taken significantly longer to achieve , in the absence of a critical mass of key individuals who were prepared to devote time and effort to heighten the confidence and enthusiasm of their ‘ converts ’ with their positive message . |
| 7 | We 're not going to have to wait much longer to learn which country and town have won AST Research Inc 's long-promised European personal computer plant . |
| 8 | The female half of the population had to wait even longer for an equal political voice : not until substantial numbers of women had moved out from the shelter of the home to take an independent place in the labour market was women 's claim to a voice in the political market allowed . |
| 9 | When he heard that he had to wait still longer for his dinner , he began to growl and lash his tail and curl his whiskers in a most terrible manner causing the poor farmer 's knees to knock together with terror . |
| 10 | As to whether you 've got much longer on that or not . |
| 11 | But some people have to wait much longer for operations in some places than in others and the system can be insensitive to individual needs . |
| 12 | I think perhaps in the Habitat-Mothercare-BHS merger things have taken rather longer to settle down than they might have done if it had been a take-over . |
| 13 | These have taken somewhat longer than we anticipated but we are at last making good progress towards agreeing prices for the Eurojet contract and we are expecting to receive more acceptable price quotations from Eurofighter very shortly for their part of the work . |
| 14 | Patients with Barrett 's oesophagus tended to have significantly longer median oesophageal transit times in supine posture ( 180 v 13.5 seconds ; p=0.0004 ) but there was no difference in the erect posture . |