Example sentences of "did not [vb infin] long enough " in BNC.
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| 1 | Matthias did not reign long enough to consolidate his achievements for he died in 1490 at the age of fifty . |
| 2 | This was approached from two angles : first , what was known as the ‘ battle for the fourth grade ’ , an acknowledgement that substantial numbers of children either did not go to school or did not stay long enough to consolidate literacy . |
| 3 | First , a number of historical studies have shown that the nuclear family was common before the industrial revolution , if only because people did not live long enough for older relatives to live near or with their younger kin . |
| 4 | Richard Cox did not live long enough to see the triumph of his apple , for he died in Colnbrook 20 May 1845 , eight years after his wife Ann . |
| 5 | Maclean , perhaps fortunately , did not live long enough to witness the collapse of the system he had built up . |
| 6 | The two deaths recorded during this study both occurred in patients who were moribund when first assessed and did not survive long enough to reach hospital . |
| 7 | In any case , I did not linger long enough — as I was obliged to explain to his lordship shortly afterwards — to hear anything that would give a clue as to M. Dupont 's attitude to Mr Lewis 's remarks . |