Example sentences of "survive long [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His only problem was , would he survive long enough to see through what was in some ways the most monumental task he had yet set himself ? |
| 2 | When the life expectancies of the shrimps are short then most of those which start life as males may not survive long enough to become females . |
| 3 | ‘ You will survive long enough without food and water , ’ the Counsellor said , and turned to leave . |
| 4 | The two deaths recorded during this study both occurred in patients who were moribund when first assessed and did not survive long enough to reach hospital . |
| 5 | Others , however , probably burrowed underground , surviving long enough to become the first true mammals . |
| 6 | I 'd say what we can see is some of that heat surviving long enough to escape through a cave mouth , ’ she said to Ace . |
| 7 | But they survived long enough for the continents to regroup and to radically alter the atmosphere . |
| 8 | Betty Titford , Thomas 's wife , received help because she was sick ; Thomas himself was out of work in 1801 , and qualified for relief both on that score and because he was the head of a one-parent family which included a sick daughter ; Hephzibah , the little orphan , had been helped and then apprenticed by the overseers , and finally John and Ann , briefly subsidised during times of economic dearth , eventually survived long enough to collect a very modest old-age pension . |
| 9 | No. 19 survived long enough to become 19s , of London Transport . |
| 10 | Built with folding wings ( originally to enable it to be hidden in caves ) , had the mighty carrier Shinano survived long enough , Japan could have fielded the first carrier-based jet strike force with Kitsukas ! |
| 11 | East Anglian independence survived long enough for coins to be minted for Aethelberht , king of the East Angles , and it has been suggested that Offa 's East Anglian coinage may not have begun much before c . |
| 12 | If they survive long enough , they begin to recapture many of their wild characteristics , but all too often it is a question of ‘ put ’ and immediately ‘ take ’ . |
| 13 | I estimate that no more than 50 per cent of all young rabbits survive long enough to reach maturity . |
| 14 | None of Mao 's or Mr Deng 's heirs has survived long enough to assume fully their designated role as successor . |
| 15 | Those that were able to acclimatize might have survived long enough for hereditary processes to be invoked and adaptation to occur . |
| 16 | The site 's fifth-century history remains poorly known , though presumably neither its postulated administrative status nor its manufacturing capacity could have survived long once Roman authority lapsed and the roads became insecure . |