Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] longer [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So what do the Germans offer those women who do n't want to wear longer lengths ? |
| 2 | In fact the staff tend to work longer hours , midweek and weekends , serving breakfast , lunch and evening meals to delegates , as well as function buffets , often working from 7.00am until late at night . |
| 3 | A major exception to the principle of proportionality relates to the sentencing of offenders for violent and sexual offences , in respect of whom courts are empowered to pass longer sentences than are ‘ commensurate ’ if they consider it necessary ‘ to protect the public from serious harm from the offender ’ ( section 2(2) ( b ) ) . |
| 4 | In the lead mines of the northern Pennines the use of young boys underground seems to have decreased after 1750 when mining practice came to favour longer levels , putting the drawing of ores beyond the strength of children . |
| 5 | ‘ She is bound to have longer legs , a sexier smile and better bedroom manners ’ |
| 6 | A phantom is bound to have longer legs , a sexier smile and better bedroom manners than a real person . |
| 7 | Inevitably , the rationalising of 16–19 provision , has led to more students having to travel longer distances . |
| 8 | Well I use , I use to work longer hours . |
| 9 | Society and other academic journals tend to have longer periods between acceptance of their papers and publication than commercial journals . |
| 10 | Society and other academic journals tend to have longer periods between acceptance of their papers and publication than commercial journals . |
| 11 | With the rapid decline in the mining industry during the late nineteenth century , men were forced to work longer hours or to seek work abroad and this shared life largely disappeared . |
| 12 | The safety record in the private sector is worse , because it reflects the fact that those in the private sector are already forced to work longer hours . |
| 13 | But , as soon as American distributors no longer needed British films , and the local producers had started to make longer films , the quality of British filmmaking nosedived . |
| 14 | ( While the Factory Acts did not usually greatly affect book-printing , it sometimes happened with legal or government work that compositors had to work longer hours than normal to meet deadlines . ) |
| 15 | When the heat is on at work and you are required to work longer hours , are you unable to maintain your eating pattern ? |
| 16 | The first one is , you need to give longer courses of antibiotics to clear throat infections |
| 17 | Obviously the larger departments tended to produce longer reports , but there was considerable variation in the amount of information provided . |