Example sentences of "a longer [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The very wide shoulders narrowing sharply to a slim hip on a longer jacket was the biggest influence on menswear at the time and he took the world by storm . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Second , women have a longer expectation of life than men . |
| 4 | Taking a longer timespan , 1971 — 85 , Bosanquet and Gray ( 1989 ) report that the average stay for a patient aged 65 — 74 decreased by 34.8 per cent from 22.1 days to 14.4 days . |
| 5 | At Key Stage 2 pupils will go on to look at further examples , such as work or leisure , and changes over a longer timespan . |
| 6 | From here Dalles Grises takes six pitched of VS worthwhile for the feeding of doing a longer route in such an impressive place . |
| 7 | The line was once part of a longer route that ran to Sheffield , using the Woodhead tunnel under the Pennines . |
| 8 | The carts in which the other members of the three households were riding had been forced to take a longer route to the spot . |
| 9 | The connection time was very tight and there were some weeks when I rarely caught the 7 o'clock bus to Ferryhill and had to wait for the 7.15am bus which takes a longer route and delayed my arrival even more . |
| 10 | Although today it is a longer hole and equipment has improved , it is not common to see the bushes carried from the tee but it is done . |
| 11 | Unfortunately , evaluation of both these factors is difficult and labour intensive and requires a longer timescale than that usually acceptable to policymakers and budget setters . |
| 12 | New patterns for External Verification are being developed but are being phased in gradually over a longer timescale . |
| 13 | If you are doing a lot of work reports , you 're going to do a longer transcription , and the transcription 's going to , cos you 've got to make sure that your transcription 's according to the basis of consistent in its way around . |
| 14 | If the English writer stops short of uncritical adulation , and also has a longer memory than the Americans for the loathsome politics that Pound was infected by , that is all to the good . |
| 15 | Richardson wo n't manage a longer chat . |
| 16 | Most of them looked to be students , but in a month we never managed a longer conversation than ‘ Hi ! |
| 17 | He expressed a hope that we might meet again during the remaining two days of his stay and have a longer conversation . |
| 18 | boxes have a longer column but the box internals are similar . |
| 19 | Because in plasma cGMP has a longer half-life ( 15 min ) than ANP ( 1–2 min ) , cGMP can be regarded as a more sensitive marker for ANP release than ANP itself in many situations . |
| 20 | Changes in the parole system were promised so that serious offenders would serve a longer proportion of their time in jail . |
| 21 | However , if there are further operations requiring less secondary information , then another instruction format can be provided with a longer operation code field . |
| 22 | ( This could be a way of " skim viewing " a longer cartoon story . ) |
| 23 | The report concludes that London is likely to experience a longer hangover from the late 1980s boom than the rest of the country ; economists ' forecasts that new jobs in the capital during the 1990s will only grow by 48,000 ( 4.9% ) means that there will still be a lot of space available , and office tenants should be the beneficiaries . |
| 24 | The kilometre long cutting emerges onto a longer embankment with extensive views over the Tame valley and back towards West Bromwich . |
| 25 | Rosenthal speculates that pepper and chocolate are classed as masculine because they are stronger flavours than salt and vanilla , while Chevrolet is feminine because of its sound ( it 's a longer word than Ford , has an open vowel at the end , connotes ‘ Frenchness ’ ) and knife is masculine because of the association with aggression . |
| 26 | The pronunciation may have been stored before , but as part of a longer word ( e.g. tea as part of teacher ) . |
| 27 | Now we had originally had this extra facility available er so that we could trade off life against the extra thrust in an emergency but there was clearly the possibility erm that that might be used er when it really was n't necessary and we would end up with extra costs , extra life cycle costs , shorter engine life and it was felt on balance that with a reduced threat overall that it was sensible to take out that facility and to accept a longer engine life , but not , there 's no reduction in the total normal thrust but its merely its override combat facility . |
| 28 | Large expanses of privet need a longer blade , and the extra cost will be offset by the time saved . |
| 29 | I required a longer rest ; and could I be driven home by someone , as I felt so tired ? |
| 30 | Suction could have been provided overnight only when clinically indicated and an assessment tool used to give the patient a longer rest period between interventions . |