Example sentences of "longer than " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today , each person with AIDS is surviving on average longer than two years , needing more care than ever before . |
| 2 | If you try him I suggest you select from Greek or East rather than , say , the more recent Decadence : the latter play contains enormous speeches , usually much longer than you will need , and is fearfully difficult material to cut . |
| 3 | A mind that can turn faster and keep going longer than that of anyone I know , so Paz , wrote Harsnet . |
| 4 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , it has taken me longer than I had at first anticipated to work my way through the manuscript you . |
| 5 | No longer than a fortnight , hopefully . |
| 6 | In general , women are healthier and live longer than ever before , indeed on average they can expect to live 5 years longer than men . |
| 7 | In general , women are healthier and live longer than ever before , indeed on average they can expect to live 5 years longer than men . |
| 8 | He is now critical of the British clockmaking industry , but hopes that with the help of a German movement , his new clock will survive longer than the original . |
| 9 | Are you handling 8x4ft sheets of MDF or are you handling dirty great 12ft boards of ash or , like our friends the chair-makers in Harland , are your components hardly ever longer than 24in . |
| 10 | Pieces of material much longer than the vice jaws should be gripped between two wood strips and held in the vice with the addition of a G-cramp or screw at each end ( fig.2 ) . |
| 11 | The length of the bush should be 1/8in longer than the distance between the back of the centre and the front face of the tailstock casting , when fully retarded . |
| 12 | Rediagramming of units , and the retention of old DMUs for many years longer than originally planned in order to keep up the fleet size to meet this new demand , have enabled the worst of the overcrowding to be contained , though there are at the time of writing ( 1989 ) stili several tight spots to be dealt with in certain areas at peak times . |
| 13 | Marginally longer than the Mk3s at 23m over the body , the bodysides incline inwards slightly to allow for tilting on curves , a feature not fitted , but noticeable in this view of a standard–class interior . |
| 14 | The steel blades are protected by a Mylar coating for wear resistance , giving protection up to 10 times longer than the blade 's normal life . |
| 15 | Another point is that it would make most bit image files far longer than necessary . |
| 16 | Travelling half-way round the world to run in a race that is two furlongs longer than one taking place in the town where Old Vic is trained seems a rather extreme route away from providing what could have been a thrilling contest . |
| 17 | Yesterday , in Tokyo , she indicated that she may be around for a little while longer than expected . |
| 18 | There are also suggestions that the sale of WWG 's US Whitlock car accessories group will take longer than expected and will not realise the price Boots had hoped . |
| 19 | Those who have cottoned on to the streak of genius in Brittain 's seemingly eccentric modus operandi have struck a rich vein of gold as the stable 's horses are often priced a good deal longer than they should be . |
| 20 | Was summer longer than usual this year to fit in six Test matches against the Australians ? |
| 21 | This 11-hour day , longer than that of any other exchange , will give Liffe a crucial edge in the increasingly competitive European arena . |
| 22 | All this , I say , giving my gloss , can be read — and more particularly seen and heard , since Heseltine 's manner and presence carry their own conviction — as the utterance of a man demonstrating that he has been in the wilderness longer than it is in anyone 's interest . |
| 23 | Not that he will necessarily go soon , but few think he will last longer than the party congress next May . |
| 24 | This high level route is not for the faint hearted — as well as being longer than the Pennine Way it involves much more climbing . |
| 25 | However , record contracts tend to last longer than management agreements ( a management agreement might last for three years while a record contract may go on as long as ten ) . |
| 26 | Recording an album inevitably takes longer than expected . |
| 27 | There are innumerable reasons why albums take longer than expected to get into the shops . |
| 28 | Though , that last phrase seems to point to Germany and Italy , Eliot also draws attention to dangerous mass ‘ cults ’ in Britain , which ‘ has been highly industrialized longer than any other country ’ . |
| 29 | The early modern transvestite and the post/modern gay ( anti ) sensibility suggest some of the ways in which transgressive reinscriptions have been around for much longer than post-modernism has been fashionable . |
| 30 | The proposal was that His Majesty would invite certain individuals as individuals to take upon their shoulders the burden of carrying on the Government and Mr. Baldwin and Mr. Samuel ( sic ) had stated that they were prepared to act accordingly … the Administration would not exist for a period longer than was necessary to dispose of the emergency , and when that purpose was achieved the political parties would resume their respective positions . |