Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv] longer " in BNC.
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| 1 | Short breaks in concentration help you to sustain much longer conversations . |
| 2 | However , the other consequence of it is it promotes their reproductive success and you can erm you can see that it is indeed an effect of testosterone if you castrated live longer than uncastrated males , and the earlier they 're castrated , the longer they live . |
| 3 | I 'll quickly rattle through the next one effectively nothing more has happened at Napier , they went off for their Christmas holidays about the fourth of November and came back about the nineteenth of January er , not quite as bad as that but nearly as I mean they 've even longer holidays than we 've got and we get a fortnight at Christmas and New Year |
| 4 | It was over a year ago but it seemed even longer . |
| 5 | It was less than seventy-two hours since he had heard of the finding of Riddle 's clothes , but it seemed much longer . |
| 6 | It was less than a year ago , though it seemed far longer , that they had kept each other company at Ockham House during the long bleak hours it had taken Mary Ladram to die . |
| 7 | So much had happened since — the Marilyn Duxbody fiasco , the Hatherley trip , Pascoe 's death — that it seemed far longer . |
| 8 | It felt much longer . |
| 9 | His account of it took rather longer but has now been published under the title ‘ Irish Shores : A Journey Round The Rim of Ireland ’ ( Greystone Books , £5.95 ) . |
| 10 | The pilot believed that the aircraft was unlikely to have survived had it taken appreciably longer to reach the ground after the failure . |