Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [prep] [art] longer " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gone are the days when you were likely to be alone on the rim path , but if the five miles escarpment is included as part of a longer circuit of the vast moorland , walkers seeking solitude will find their fair share — and a good test of their navigation skills . |
| 2 | My childhood was the place where , for my mother , the fairy tales failed , and through the glass of that childhood I now see that failure as part of a longer and more enduring one . |
| 3 | She felt work with women was indispensable , not only for the trade union movement but as part of a longer educational process which would enable women to participate fully after the triumph of the FDR-FMLN . |
| 4 | as part of a longer term review of legal aid policy , to pay modest sums to firms who allow their trainees and young solicitors to undertake the more straightforward cases now undertaken on legal aid . |
| 5 | He had requested these resignations as part of a longer term plan to reduce the number of ministries to nine and , in the short term , to provide evidence that the government was intent on achieving greater efficiency . |
| 6 | The pronunciation may have been stored before , but as part of a longer word ( e.g. tea as part of teacher ) . |
| 7 | The fall in death rates was the most fundamental feature of change in the longer term . |
| 8 | However , carers with savings above the limit for means-tested benefits have to rely entirely on ICA plus income from their savings , a strategy which is likely to increase their risk of poverty in the longer term ( Glendinning , 1990 ) . |
| 9 | Will he do all he can , through the Construction Industry Training Board , to ensure that an adequate supply of skill is available to meet the demands of recovery in the longer term ? |
| 10 | In the USA , for example , a large number of days may be lost in an industry while new productivity deals are being negotiated ; the immediate loss of production is just part of the price paid for high levels of output over the longer run . |
| 11 | Beside the brass six-pounder there stood another six-pounder , this one of iron with a longer chase . |
| 12 | The team at Oxford 's cancer fund are now planning longer term research with other organisations world-wide to assess the effects of tamoxifen over a longer period of time to see if it can continue saving lives . |
| 13 | I agree with my honourable friend er one of the er satisfactory features of the C B I er survey last week , one of the many , was that eighty four percent of firms er in the U K intend to increase or maintain their spending on training and of course she 's absolutely right , they will be the firms that will benefit most from that investment in training as we continue through recovery into growth in the longer term . |
| 14 | Surely the threat of a custodial sentence would be a stronger deterrent — as it was before 1988 — in addition to the longer sentences for which the Bill provides . |
| 15 | When the Home Secretary talked of the need for the Government to give a lead in tackling racial disadvantage he therefore saw this as in issue for the longer term . |
| 16 | The directors are accordingly not obliged to maximise current profits in order to satisfy short-term demands for dividends at the expense of a growth in profitability over a longer period . |
| 17 | Hold it in place with a longer spirit level ( if you have one ) to check it for horizontal . |
| 18 | This was in spite of a longer mean time till exclusion or end of follow up for the adenoidectomy cases . |
| 19 | Because those who re-offended went to prison automatically , without the possibility of a non-custodial sentence the next time they were convicted of an imprisonable offence , they might remain in custody for a longer time than would otherwise have been the case . |
| 20 | There is even the new risk that undue stress on the ‘ truth ’ of APRs may give people the wrong idea about the actual money cost of their credit , so that if , for example , they compare six-month credit with two-year credit they may think the shorter loan five times as costly — in comparison with the longer one — as it really is . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | From the perspective of the NHS , considerable health gains and reductions in expenditure over the longer term could be achieved by expanding health promotion work with older people , a previously neglected group . |
| 23 | If you are single and ambitious , then your career pattern and development will be important to you , and any prospects for promotion in the longer term are a significant factor when looking for the right opening . |
| 24 | Tonight Cindy said she thought the doctors should have been sent to prison for a longer term . |
| 25 | However , many clients were supported by the scheme , and it is only through comparison with the control sample that one can determine whether or not the project was successful in sustaining them at home for a longer period of time than would have been the case without it . |