Example sentences of "[adv] longer [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No comparable breeding experiments appear to have been carried out with N. lapillus , which takes much longer to reach maturity . |
| 2 | A learner who lacks confidence and competence will take much longer to implement care , and will also put the patient at risk . |
| 3 | Er it 's much much longer going Bridge . |
| 4 | Nor should we any longer ignore change in the changing world : We should grasp the opportunities offered now , because if action is delayed circumstances can soon turn against us , as they have so often in the past . |
| 5 | You have complained about the toughness and the cut of meat , you will no longer eat liver and pork . |
| 6 | During the first days of that Holy Week Mrs Abigail continued to believe that she could not endure a marriage that was a travesty , and that she could no longer endure life in Dynmouth . |
| 7 | Yet straightaway I knew that something had changed , since that distant Moscow meeting and our encounter three years ago in Switzerland : for some reason I no longer felt desire stirring for her . |
| 8 | Since December 1989 cruise ships no longer visit Palm , which makes this island paradise a remote hideaway for the overworked and weary . |
| 9 | Though Marcus no longer took part in this process , he never missed a single morning ; he liked to know everything that was going on — how many cargo-ships berthed for loading or unloading — how many hours taken to clear each one — how many men needed on every job . |
| 10 | For many programmers , this is their first taste of trying to sell houses in a buyers ' market , of static wages and of finding that demand for their skills no longer outstrips supply . |
| 11 | Hindenburg certainly thought the last , for he later wrote : ‘ … they were no longer seeking victory , but destruction . ’ |
| 12 | She thought it could no longer draw blood , the time for that was past . |
| 13 | Someone who is so much a part of you that if you were separated you 'd no longer feel whole . ’ |
| 14 | The soldiers that stand guard beside the entrances to the colonies and rush to defend any breach in the walls , are armed with jaws so huge that they can no longer gather food for themselves and have to be fed by the workers . |
| 15 | For " reading for meaning " to occur it is necessary for recognition to become automatised through practice , because until the reader no longer spends time thinking about the identity of individual words , he or she will not be able to think about their role in the sentence . |
| 16 | The diet of the rural poor may have deteriorated towards the end of the century because they had lost their pasturage and could no longer collect firewood or game from the common land ( Taylor 1975 ) . |
| 17 | Forestry companies no longer granted tax concessions have been trying to offload their holdings . |
| 18 | On the basis of this review , we have decided that we shall no longer accord recognition to governments . |
| 19 | The pre-occupations which have dominated debates at Westminster for so long no longer make sense . |
| 20 | When he is spent by the work load , sagging from the diet , then he will be pliable and no longer make trouble . |
| 21 | I feel it is important that you , your readers and the tennis public should know that I no longer take part in any decision making relating to the business of the company or the centre and therefore I take no responsibility , for either the success or failure of Junior Tennis Centre Ltd nor Sutton Junior Tennis Centre . |
| 22 | It seems that we no longer take pride in our oral heritage . |
| 23 | When it was time for the foal to be separated from its mother , the friends took the foal but no longer visited Shamrock . |
| 24 | BT will no longer make deposit decisions based on a customer 's address — the major criterion used to determine the level of deposit under the old policy . |
| 25 | That there has been no realignment since then , suggests that the member countries themselves no longer regard exchange rate policy as an effective policy instrument . |
| 26 | Books : Why violence and the vote no longer mix Brutality was once part of the British way of life at both ends of the class system , explains Paul Langford |
| 27 | The statement followed assurances from country 's warring factions that they would no longer block aid convoys or distribution . |
| 28 | When marginal revenue is less than price , profit-maximizing firms no longer set price ( and marginal consumer benefit ) equal to marginal cost . |
| 29 | No longer does evidence of authenticity have to rely solely on stylistic criteria , which can be unreliable . |
| 30 | No longer will road vehicles be able to race the locomotives to see who can get across the crossing first , despite the railway having priority . |