Example sentences of "to [art] longer [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously the postman preferred the short climb to the longer haul up the access road . |
| 2 | In this study a 400-element array was used to represent a rectangular plate in plane strain , loaded only at its four corners by forces parallel to the longer dimension of the plate . |
| 3 | The fourth rectangle , starting from the third , is moved 1 cm on an axis normal to the longer dimension of the third rectangle and then rotated 45 degrees anti-clockwise about its highest corner . |
| 4 | The tour was disappointing but looking to the longer term future of Scottish rugby it was certainly not a disaster . |
| 5 | Looking to the longer term , the Company has outline plans for a later phase of developments which will include platform improvements and a visitors ' viewing gallery in the workshops but at the moment all efforts are focused on phase 1 . |
| 6 | One difference occurs in relation to the longer term in that shipbuilding , textiles , clothing and footwear , motor vehicles , timber and furniture , leather and fur , had already declined from their 1950 position by 1964 . |
| 7 | Did the trade union movement really fail to grasp that the two pre-conditions were : first , that its sense of responsibility must be seen not to be limited to a commitment in the shorter term to contribute to recovery from immediate crisis , but to extend , at the expense of short-run advantage , to the longer term commitment , to the revival of British industry and to its successful competition in world markets ; and secondly , that a Labour Government would have to preside over the management of the country 's affairs ? |
| 8 | They may also make short term cut backs in expenditure such as advertising and repairs , to the longer term detriment of the business . |
| 9 | ‘ Looking to the longer term , I believe these reforms will significantly encourage the development of larger discoveries , such as West of Shetland , where a higher rate of return is necessary to balance the increased risk and costs of operating in a more demanding deep-water environment . ’ |
| 10 | The first was an increase of the length of the blocked transcript by one and two nucleotides for many of the blockages exhibited by derivatives 2 , 3 and 6 ( eg. 44 and 45 for the UV5 derived transcripts ) accompanied by a time-dependent extension to the longer transcript over 5–15 min . |
| 11 | Often these act as devices for obtaining the right to a longer turn , like a story . |
| 12 | If a right to a longer turn is obtained its ending must also be signalled so that the other participants know it is finished and a contribution from them will not be construed as an interruption . |
| 13 | Others , however , suggest , less cheeringly and no less convincingly , that the duration of disability proceeding death rises with age , so the more people who live to a longer life span , the bigger the health bills . |
| 14 | Video Plan 7 illustrates a different approach to a longer sequence ( about 15 minutes ) . |
| 15 | It is closely related to a longer version extant in four manuscripts three of which assign it to him . |
| 16 | It sounded utterly preposterous but it led to a longer silence . |
| 17 | Better performance for one hemifield could be due either to a longer duration of icon , thus allowing more information to be encoded before the icon fades , or to a faster encoding rate , allowing more information to be encoded before the arrival of the masking stimulus . |
| 18 | A narrow product line is more suited to a longer channel because , along the distribution chain , it can be combined with complementary products of other manufacturers , resulting in a wider range of items with which to interest the customer . |