Example sentences of "for long and [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Trajectories which start within BCEF continue to wander near the strange invariant set until they eventually fall into one of these doubly hatched regions outside BCEF ( from whence they spiral into C+ or C ) ; so , as r approaches 24.06 , trajectories wander for longer and longer .
2 We keep we keep going on for longer and longer but it 's taking a lot longer for us to get any closer .
3 When a child asks a question about something dropping from a height — does it get faster and it falls for longer and longer ? — that probably is a question that most teachers who are not trained in the physical sciences just can not answer .
4 When a child asks a question about something dropping from a height — does it get faster and it falls for longer and longer ? — that probably is a question that most teachers who are not trained in the physical sciences just can not answer .
5 Civilian reactors , designed to produce power , use their fuel for longer and so produce heavier isotopes , Pu and Pu .
6 Highly skilled and highly trained stockmen on intensive livestock farms can , it is true , earn much more than the average wage ( though often for longer and more awkward hours ) , since such workers are in relatively short supply , but they are the industry 's élite and constitute no more than 15 per cent of the labour force .
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