Example sentences of "[vb past] much longer [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He soon started to gather illustrations for The Tourist 's New Guide to the Lake District , but as with the Manchester plan , it took much longer than he had hoped , and the final version was not published until 1819 . |
| 2 | It took much longer than expected for the population to be reduced by deaths , occasional discharges and transfers to new units . |
| 3 | Thirdly , in generating assessment exercises from objectives the whole process took much longer than anticipated and initially reviewers were unhappy with the quality of exercises produced by contract ‘ item writers ’ . |
| 4 | Holding the cow 's tail he leaned on the hairy back and , empty-eyed , blew smoke from the pipe which like most farmers at a cleansing he had prudently lit at the outset And of course , since the going was heavy , it just would happen that the job took much longer than usual . |
| 5 | ‘ That took much longer than I would have believed . ’ |
| 6 | And it would be another 55 years before an Australian team paused much longer than to browse the bazaars , while the nations have met just once in Test cricket on the island , in 1983 . |
| 7 | In the late 1980s the Cubans manipulated them into a needless confrontation in Angola , which lasted much longer than it should have done because , this time , the Washington team was clumsier . |
| 8 | As a result , Romanesque architecture lasted much longer than in Italy or France or England , indeed it was more on a par with Germany in this respect , but , equally , Gothic architecture when it arrived , also lasted much longer , delaying the Renaissance till the late sixteenth or early seventeenth century . |
| 9 | But no one stayed much longer than two unconvincing hours . |