Example sentences of "[verb] longer than " in BNC.
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| 1 | She knelt longer than she would normally have done , not out of devotion but to give him time to get away . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The jaws appear longer than broad . |
| 4 | Again there are two broad categories : either the jaws appear longer than wide with many oral papillae and large open tentacle pores or the jaw appears as broad as long with few oral papillae and small tentacle pores . |
| 5 | The jaws appear longer than wide . |
| 6 | He said that he had his boss with him and that they would not wait longer than eight . |
| 7 | One example might be the political decision taken in January 1991 that no one must wait longer than two years for an operation by April 1992 , irrespective of clinical need . |
| 8 | Mr Ryan said it was hoped to target 12 to 24 month waiting lists and eventually no one should wait longer than a year for treatment . |
| 9 | Nor shall I stay longer than I need . ’ |
| 10 | No undergraduate may stay longer than four years . |
| 11 | But there was nothing to suggest that Germans were healthier , happier or lived longer than Britons , he added . |
| 12 | In the rather fresher air of rural areas the poor were healthier and lived longer than the urban poor , who suffered from the ravages of urban atmospheric pollution , overcrowding and unhealthy working conditions . |
| 13 | Francis Galton had investigated the efficacy of prayer by seeing whether members of the Royal Family , often prayed for in church , lived longer than other aristocrats ; he found they did not . |
| 14 | More importantly , it puts them there for indeterminate periods ( until they are ‘ cured ’ ) which can , and does , mean longer than would be warranted by retributive justice ( determined by the gravity of their offence ) . |
| 15 | Investors may have to wait longer than they anticipate before enjoying maximum premiums . |
| 16 | This means that other people have to wait longer than necessary to see a doctor ; if we could charge non-attenders , as dentists do , it would help . |
| 17 | The depth of our batting meant he had to wait longer than some , but he is a fiercely committed Lancastrian and he has been prepared to stay put and fight for a place instead of looking elsewhere for a regular spot . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ In fact , perhaps we ought to wait longer than that . ’ |
| 19 | had to wait longer than 16 weeks for trial . |
| 20 | HARD-UP university students from the Southern Board area may have to wait longer than usual for their grants after Thursday night 's bomb attack in Armagh badly damaged the Board 's offices . |
| 21 | Opposition Chief Whip Derek Foster , Bishop Auckland 's Labour MP , welcomed the news no one should have to wait longer than two years for treatment but called for reassurances that figures had not been ‘ massaged ’ . |
| 22 | you have to wait longer than you should to get money back from the Revenue ; |
| 23 | Having delayed longer than he had intended at the barrow , he even pumped the pedals on the downhill sections , always anxious about the safety of the curious evidence in his saddle bag . |
| 24 | If one of the syllables in our ‘ nonsense word ’ is made longer than the others , there is quite a strong tendency for that syllable to be heard as stressed . |
| 25 | Although women were living longer than men on average , there remained throughout the century an ‘ accident blackspot ’ for women who bore children . |
| 26 | And today 's generation is living longer than previous generations . |
| 27 | ‘ The funeral parlours , that 's a business , they got to expand , but people 're living longer than before , advances in medicine , right ? |
| 28 | The people surrounding it and supporting it — and by now many are living off it — are fitter and are living longer than ever before . |
| 29 | One is that people are living longer than they used to , and it is obviously a help if their teeth last longer too . |
| 30 | For example , people are living longer than they used to . |