Example sentences of "[vb base] for longer " in BNC.

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1 Some have wide spools which make for longer casting .
2 In winter , badgers sleep for longer but they do n't hibernate .
3 It , therefore , has two schemes that provide for longer terms funding for particular departments to build up a research programme in a particular area : there are now 150 of these groups at German universities .
4 The total number of people waiting for NHS treatment in the UK rose to more than one million in March 1990. 25% of inpatients wait for longer than a year for treatment .
5 In general , long shots run for longer than close-ups because they contain more information for the eye to take in , and an average length might be ten to fifteen seconds .
6 This process whereby financial intermediaries lend for longer periods of time than they borrow is known as maturity transformation .
7 New English roses from David Austin look and smell like old roses but flower for longer and are more compact .
8 New English roses like ‘ Heritage ’ look and smell like old roses but flower for longer
9 But while 123 Windows is a relatively new product for Lotus , Excel has been exploiting the Windows interface for longer and it shows .
10 Trajectories which start within BCEF continue to wander near the strange invariant set until they eventually fall into one of these doubly hatched regions outside BCEF ( from whence they spiral into C+ or C ) ; so , as r approaches 24.06 , trajectories wander for longer and longer .
11 When choosing several varieties , remember that cross-pollination may be important and that some fruits store for longer than others .
12 I would have to go as fast as I could while I could still see the way , and then rest for longer , and then probably crawl .
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