Example sentences of "have a longer [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because in plasma cGMP has a longer half-life ( 15 min ) than ANP ( 1–2 min ) , cGMP can be regarded as a more sensitive marker for ANP release than ANP itself in many situations . |
| 2 | Savory has a longer history than sage , though not considered to be as useful medicinally . |
| 3 | If country banks were a product of the latter half of the eighteenth century , country banking functionally defined has a longer history , despite the fact that only a dozen institutions formally known as banks were in existence before 1750 . |
| 4 | If the English writer stops short of uncritical adulation , and also has a longer memory than the Americans for the loathsome politics that Pound was infected by , that is all to the good . |
| 5 | Visible light has a longer wavelength than UV radiation . |
| 6 | It happens to be a physical fact that the light that we call red has a longer wavelength than the light that we call blue . |
| 7 | The main exponents of this approach — writers like Hyman , Beynon and Fox — all take conflict to be a major structural component of employment ; although we should also note that sociology in fact has a longer tradition of exploring the distinctive problems of explanation and understanding associated with industrial conflict ( eg. Eldridge , 1968 ) . |
| 8 | It remains firm in transit and has a longer shelf life before the softening gene finally overcomes the effects of the inserted gene . |
| 9 | The crab has a longer body than the other species shown here , and the legs are flattened and held away from the carapace . |
| 10 | The dose equivalence over 24 hours is more difficult to estimate but since salmeterol has a longer duration of action salmeterol 50 µg twice daily may be equivalent to salbutamol 500 µg four to six hourly . |
| 11 | IAN LUCAS has a longer booklet on Apple Snails available at £3 including p&p |
| 12 | The two noddies are fairly similar , but the lesser has a longer beak and the brown , as its name suggests , has a paler brown back . |
| 13 | However , the strategy also has a longer term aim to upgrade the infrastructure and skills of the region to enable it to compete effectively for investment when congestion costs in the ‘ grand poles ’ become insupportable . |
| 14 | They sometimes get impatient with their counterpart , who necessarily has a longer term perspective and can not work fulltime because of a low salary . |
| 15 | Equally , the right of casual workers with whom an organization has a longer term relationship to be able to choose whether or not to work ( even if this right can not be abused ) is incompatible with a contractual relationship which obliges work which is offered to be undertaken . |
| 16 | The King Charles Spaniel is slightly smaller than the Cavalier , and has a domed head and snub-nosed face , while the Cavalier has a longer muzzle . |
| 17 | The students who , in the training trials , heard the buzz half a second before the shock , jerked their finger back more consistently than those who had had a longer gap between the buzz and the shock during training , and they did so much more markedly than those who heard the buzz at the time of the shock or after it ( see Fig. 24.1 ) . |
| 18 | Seats that can face wither forward or to the rear are standard on many models , which is useful as the seat will have a longer utility value . |
| 19 | We 'll have a longer talk when I 'm home again . ’ |
| 20 | To achieve this ISO must have a longer lifetime than IRAS . |
| 21 | I think overall there was a definite public benefit from offering this type of information , although I would hope that we could have a longer lead in time with regards to any future campaign . |
| 22 | It is considered better therefore to have a longer set of allowable candidate strings which includes the correct word although this may often include rarely occurring words . |
| 23 | The only other comment I had in terms of the scale of settlement , which I think is just touching upon the next point , is that , I mean depending on the conclusions you reach as to the the amount of housing to be provided for in a new settlement , I take the point that Mr Brighton made that you 've got to have a longer term perspective I think that he f that in the ten year period ninety six to two thousand and six that the new settlements to be brought forward during , erm I think it 's really unrealistic to achieve more than twelve fifty , fourteen hundred houses in that period , if you say reach a conclusion there should be two thousand houses in that period in a new settlement , there might be some benefit in having two settlements , each of a capacity of say twelve fifty , f for erm twelve fifty to fifteen hundred that can have capacity for the next plan period , and in other words to assist in meeting the constraints that exist on York that are likely to exist into the future . |
| 24 | Weak though its labour organisation may have been in the 1880s , it had a longer tradition of trade unionism among seamen than any other part of the country . |
| 25 | The kingdom of Greece had a longer history ; the Greeks had been the first subject people to break free from Ottoman rule after 1815 . |
| 26 | Indeed , the over spill factor had a longer history than a concern with post-coal industrial restructuring , since the plans of the 1940s and early 1950s had assumed stable employment in coal . |
| 27 | ‘ National ’ brewers accounted for only 18 per cent of all beer production , and their brands were nearly all bottled ales , since these were more easily transported and had a longer life than cask-conditioned draught beer . |
| 28 | Model biles prepared with phosphatidylserine had a longer nucleation time ( 20 days ) than those prepared with phosphatidylethanolamine or phosphatidylcholine having the same fatty acid composition . |
| 29 | The infantry version had a longer shaft , but both versions were essentially spiked maces . |
| 30 | We have a longer run of data for North Shields thanks to the earlier studies of the CDP , although there are major difficulties in comparing data from earlier ‘ card counts ’ with that produced by the Census of Employment ( Table 4.5 ) . |