Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [adv] longer [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The text of warranties has become much longer because solicitors have included very many specific warranties as well as general warranties . |
| 2 | Joyce Tapsall who 's sixty-eight has lived alone longer than most widows — her husband died when she was twenty-nine . |
| 3 | The complex of disparate elements comprising academic English was always unstable , though they might have stayed together longer if it had not been for the demands of the academic environment . |
| 4 | Admittedly Ordovician graptolite zones must have lasted much longer than the ammonite zones of the Mesozoic , but nevertheless the time scale is still surprising . |
| 5 | All she had been told when she came round after the anaesthetic was that there had been a few complications and the operation had taken rather longer than had been expected . |
| 6 | Strange as it may seem , we 've lived rather longer than you , we do know what 's — ’ |
| 7 | I 've lived here longer than you . |
| 8 | The encounter had lasted no longer than one minute at the outside , yet she took away with her a vivid memory of that thin handsome face , with its grimly set lips and smouldering brown eyes . |