Example sentences of "[art] [adv] longer [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only a small part of this difference between the two planets is due to the much longer night on Venus : the main reason is unknown . |
| 2 | These ambiguities were not merely the result of unfortunate political alliances but of the much longer history of middle-class women 's involvement in the field of social regulation . |
| 3 | The much longer route along the river , which we chose to follow , has neither a railway nor any proper roads . |
| 4 | The potentially longer duration of registered designs is the main reason why a design which lies in this overlap should be registered . |
| 5 | But before they emerge as adults they have a rather longer incarnation as larvae walking about the river bottom . |
| 6 | Well as you know I think the committee looked at this erm in nineteen ninety one and er I think it is fairly true to say that by the time it was taken out of service blood hound did not represent a very high level of capability erm and the gap , there is a gap obviously between blood hound it 'll it 'll now be a rather longer gap between that and any A M S A M replacement , er but blood hound itself was judged to be frankly not worth having . |
| 7 | After I had been there one term , however , my father took one of his almost yearly visits to Africa , this time for a rather longer period of about four months . |
| 8 | We tend to reckon , perhaps rather arrogantly , that we take a rather longer view of the needs of society , and maybe are as close to getting it right as , as , as , as ministers with their day-by-day short-term preoccupations . |
| 9 | It is much cheaper to spend a little longer thinking about them beforehand and getting them right the first time rather than the second , third or fourth time around . |
| 10 | It was timeless : other contests set a date and trust to luck that nature will co-operate — the Triple Crown was already distinct in having a much longer window of opportunity than fixtures elsewhere on the Tour . |
| 11 | In fact , according to the physics of 1864 , he was correct : it was only the discovery of then unknown sources of nuclear energy which allowed physicists to suppose a much longer life-span for the sun and consequently the earth . |
| 12 | These new strains have been bred to combine the varied colours , forms and scents of old roses with a much longer season of flowers . |
| 13 | It may turn out to be one or two meetings only or a much longer period of time . |
| 14 | The net effect of these changes is , of course , that women are relatively free of child-rearing for a much longer period of their active lives and are , therefore , more likely to seek paid employment . |
| 15 | This of course was not the main part of the work , but a pilot study used to test and refine some hypotheses about the wider sociolinguistic situation , which was then investigated more fully over a much longer period of time . |
| 16 | But you know we have to look beyond the first year or two , we have to look at what 's going to happen to that school over a much longer period of time , and quite frankly erm I would feel safer with erm what was called the big brother of the Local Authority . |
| 17 | The idea of entitlement probably represents an attempt , during a much longer debate about the need for a ‘ national ’ curriculum , to bring into focus the child 's individual needs and rights : it is needed to counterbalance any propensity towards the state 's collective needs — totalitarianism if you will — which a move towards a nationally prescribed curriculum might bring with it . |
| 18 | All subject groups had DGR for some of the study period ; however , both groups of patients had reflux for a significantly longer proportion of study time than the normal controls ( 12% of study time for normal controls , 67% for gastric ulcer patients , and 91% for gastric surgery patients ; p<0.001 gastric ulcer v controls and p<0.0002 gastric surgery v controls ; Fig 1 ) . |
| 19 | ‘ The galaxy is also one of a group of galaxies , ’ Ace added , ‘ who have an even longer year of their own . |
| 20 | However , if you wish , you can extend this for further periods of ten years , to provide an even longer term for your tax-free savings . |