Example sentences of "longer than [pron] [vb mod] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | c The past 3 years have destroyed the myth that elderly dementing people can not play a role in the running of a nursing home — we have seen even severe Alzheimer residents respond to normalization programme and reality orientation work and enjoy it and , indeed , remain at a plateau much longer than they would otherwise have done ( highly subjective comment , I know ) . |
| 2 | just as the ermine changes it coat for winter ; just as the seed can lie dormant for thousands of years ; just as the bacteria and the rotifers can live in their desiccated time capsules for perhaps longer than we can ever envisage , awaiting a change of outer circumstances for the tiny living specks of dust to take on another form — just so , perhaps , may the living forms we know so well have secrets tucked away within them that only the rolling of the aeons can reveal . |
| 3 | And , by the end of her life , her long sight had grown longer than anyone could possibly have expected . |
| 4 | ‘ All the evidence points to the fact that if people get the right advice at the right time , creditors are more likely to get what is owed to them , even though it may take longer than it would originally have done . |
| 5 | She knelt longer than she would normally have done , not out of devotion but to give him time to get away . |