Example sentences of "[adv] a longer [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So he and his rider galloped up a long hill and then down a longer hill and then up another hill and so on without a break for eight exhausting miles , and the more his rider puffed and gasped for breath , the more he enjoyed himself and the faster he went ! |
| 2 | Lastly lastly a longer question where the answer would have to be two and three sentences erm yes but do n't tell everybody . |
| 3 | And because one would share with neighbours , it was rather spaced out so that people could benefit over a longer period . |
| 4 | Stock , for example , is issued for 25 years at the most , for the obvious reason that the market will charge a high premium for lending over a longer period than that . |
| 5 | It is now widely realised that a comprehensive education for a mentally handicapped child should continue over a longer time than the normal educational period of 5–16 years . |
| 6 | The proposals for small businesses are quite radical , but that is always a longer game . |
| 7 | If this trend continues , we can expect greater numbers of each successive cohort to reach pensionable age and to have both a longer expectation of life and fewer chronic illnesses and disabilities when it does than its predecessor . |
| 8 | The present project constitutes a pilot study after which it is hoped to set up a longer term project to follow up the initial findings . |
| 9 | As it stands , it is among the best of the poetry of the Oxford Movement , and probably a longer life would have produced the mastery foreseen by Bridges and James . |
| 10 | The use of videos for updating purposes was probably a longer term aim . |
| 11 | On the other hand , if the grass material is dark then a longer exposure is desirable . |
| 12 | Gabriel saw bullets sparkle and flash all around the F2B ; and then a longer streak from the British observer 's rearfiring gun . |
| 13 | However a longer handicap man will enjoy an equally good game from the forward tees . |
| 14 | Some of the failures of the model occurred in cases where the input was actually consistent with two parses , either a longer spanning word rather than a single word ( as in party ) or a different parse into two words , as in part rust for par trust . |
| 15 | New editions will essentially be cumulations and therefore a longer gap will exist between editions . |