Example sentences of "[is] long than [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Look at Peter Gabriel , who does in fact get slagged off , and f—ing right and all , but he has n't made an album for six years which is longer than me , but he 's a current performer whereas I 'm an old lag who 's coming back . |
| 2 | Because a regression session is longer than one involving simple hypnotherapy , the patient tends to relax more and more as the session goes on . |
| 3 | In principle for any word bearing an inflectional affix , it is possible to find contexts where all possible substitutes must contain either the same affix , or one belonging to the same closed set : consider the possible substitutes for walked in Cedric walked home , longer in Mine is longer than yours or books in those books . |
| 4 | One hundred years seems like a long time to us , because it is longer than our lifetime . |
| 5 | Go left to reach the small square of Piazza Sant' Eufemia , where across a small lawn that is longer than it is wide and bordered by tall conifers , you will see the church that gives the piazza its name . |
| 6 | It is longer than it is wide , and it is modelled directly on the Parafoils . |
| 7 | ‘ My lord , ’ said Hugh heartily , ‘ the king 's peace , such as it is and as we manage to maintain it , is very much your business , and your experience in it is longer than mine . |
| 8 | Yeah , well it 's longer than mine |
| 9 | Cos his hair 's got so long , it 's longer than mine . |