Example sentences of "a longer [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Second , women have a longer expectation of life than men . |
| 3 | Changes in the parole system were promised so that serious offenders would serve a longer proportion of their time in jail . |
| 4 | We have a longer run of data for North Shields thanks to the earlier studies of the CDP , although there are major difficulties in comparing data from earlier ‘ card counts ’ with that produced by the Census of Employment ( Table 4.5 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | For many freshwater hobbyists , invertebrates are a whole new departure ; we know little about many species , but one with a longer history of captive care is the Apple Snail . |
| 7 | A Longer History of Time ? |
| 8 | Weak though its labour organisation may have been in the 1880s , it had a longer tradition of trade unionism among seamen than any other part of the country . |
| 9 | The main exponents of this approach — writers like Hyman , Beynon and Fox — all take conflict to be a major structural component of employment ; although we should also note that sociology in fact has a longer tradition of exploring the distinctive problems of explanation and understanding associated with industrial conflict ( eg. Eldridge , 1968 ) . |
| 10 | In the treatment of gonorrhoea with complications , a longer course of antibiotic therapy is needed and this must usually be combined with a period of rest , preferably in bed , preferably alone . |
| 11 | For some people , a longer course of treatment is necessary , up to six months in very difficult cases . |
| 12 | Literature classes with older people can be rewarding ; they bring a longer experience of life to bear on the subject , and often a wide range of reading . |
| 13 | Yeah , put a longer pair of laces in . |
| 14 | Washing white is a longer process of removing the dirt and stains . |
| 15 | With new exams approaching , it is timely to take a longer view of what the pass standard entails and of how students might be helped to attain it . |
| 16 | The B types have the ability to take a longer view of things . |
| 17 | A longer length of rope was circled around her shoulders and under the table , then over her gorgeous breasts and downwards until her rib cage was completely covered in coiled rope , which fastened her to the hard wooden table . |
| 18 | It sets developments in a longer context of negotiations and bargaining between levels of government . |
| 19 | If you need to take a longer amount of time off , for example for longer term care of young children or relatives , you may not need to resign . |
| 20 | ( McQuail , 1987 , ch. 5 , presents a longer list of ‘ ideals ’ or ‘ moral models ’ . |
| 21 | Enjoying my fishing , including the enjoyment I would have derived from seeing a friend catch , is more important to me than compiling a longer list of big fish than anyone else . |
| 22 | Disinfectant — Buckets — Soap — Metal cups — tins — plates — Washing up liquid These are examples from a longer list of practical items . |
| 23 | For example , if you wish your ‘ commanding ’ child to wait patiently until a more convenient time for her demands to be met , you could reinforce ( reward ) her for waiting for ( say ) ten seconds , subsequently you would reinforce her for waiting for a longer interval of time , gradually increasing the interval each time you ask her to wait . |
| 24 | Another which could be used , if you want a longer stretch of time for the recording , is the Synchrofax Audio Page ( see Appendix 2 ) . |
| 25 | Better performance for one hemifield could be due either to a longer duration of icon , thus allowing more information to be encoded before the icon fades , or to a faster encoding rate , allowing more information to be encoded before the arrival of the masking stimulus . |
| 26 | The dose equivalence over 24 hours is more difficult to estimate but since salmeterol has a longer duration of action salmeterol 50 µg twice daily may be equivalent to salbutamol 500 µg four to six hourly . |
| 27 | Patients with ARF of 10 or less days duration had a lower median ( interquartile range [ IQR ] ) carbamylated haemoglobin concentration than those with a longer duration of ARF ( 29 [ 27–35 ] vs 72 [ 60–83 ] g VH/g Hb ; p<0.01 ) . |
| 28 | It is considered better therefore to have a longer set of allowable candidate strings which includes the correct word although this may often include rarely occurring words . |
| 29 | In October Swinderby appeared and handed in another defence of a longer set of opinions ; on these he was adjudged heretical , but he managed to escape from custody . |
| 30 | In 1971 Hick published a longer account of his own ideas in Arguments for the Existence of God . |