Example sentences of "for much [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The early modern transvestite and the post/modern gay ( anti ) sensibility suggest some of the ways in which transgressive reinscriptions have been around for much longer than post-modernism has been fashionable . |
| 2 | Because the fuel used in PWRs is comparatively compact , it can in fact be stored on site after use for much longer than in previous British designs — up to seventeen years . |
| 3 | No-one 's ever in for much longer than four days altogether . ’ |
| 4 | I wonder how many of you battled on for much longer than the allocated time or got demoralised and gave up ? |
| 5 | My concern about the caravan site was only a kind of self-importance , and , as a result of my terrible selfishness poor Tom had been frightened in a way that might well scar him for much longer than that little stone . |
| 6 | I ca n't remember much about that first talk , but it went on for much longer than the five to ten minutes it was supposed to last . |
| 7 | Despite being repudiated , condemned and persecuted , Nazarean teachings continued to survive , for much longer than is generally suspected . |
| 8 | ‘ Whatever intrigue there was between Lotta Petterson and myself died slowly and painfully and has been extinct for much longer than the six months we have gone our separate ways . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Whatever intrigue there was between Lotta Pettersson and myself died slowly and painfully and has been extinct for much longer than the six months we have gone our separate ways … ’ |
| 10 | First , the industry survives with two firms for much longer than is socially efficient . |
| 11 | Researchers at the University of Warwick have found that Salmonella typhimurium , a bacterium that causes diarrhoea , survives for much longer than three weeks , but in a dormant state that makes it much more difficult to detect . |
| 12 | I believe that the Government would have kept the matter secret for much longer if the draft letter had not been leaked . |
| 13 | While the EEC did not disintegrate under the conflicting pressures , by the end of 1965 the stalemate could not have been permitted to persist for much longer lest the Community itself be endangered . |