Example sentences of "[adv] a longer " 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 | Obviously a longer , longer lead in on that , erm , and , and the county would , clearly need to put some funding into the development to ensure that those er , those satellite businesses operate , and only when you fund those out of the rural economic development 's initiative , but it seems to me to be important that we should ensure that businesses operating in the rural parts of the county have equal access to the facilities of business link and business advice . |
| 3 | Changed attitudes , rising living standards , and more effective health care have together resulted in not only a longer , but a fuller life expectancy . |
| 4 | Lastly lastly a longer question where the answer would have to be two and three sentences erm yes but do n't tell everybody . |
| 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 | And because one would share with neighbours , it was rather spaced out so that people could benefit over a longer period . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The proposals for small businesses are quite radical , but that is always a longer game . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The use of videos for updating purposes was probably a longer term aim . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | On the other hand , if the grass material is dark then a longer exposure is desirable . |
| 14 | Gabriel saw bullets sparkle and flash all around the F2B ; and then a longer streak from the British observer 's rearfiring gun . |
| 15 | However a longer handicap man will enjoy an equally good game from the forward tees . |
| 16 | It is usually stopped from six to fifteen inches from the hook , but this can be increased or decreased for special situations that demand either a longer or shorter tail . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The question arises as to why a longer ( 60 second ) delay should allow a larger and thus excessive transfusion . |
| 19 | New editions will essentially be cumulations and therefore a longer gap will exist between editions . |