Example sentences of "[vb pp] a longer " in BNC.

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1 He had also enjoyed a longer life than his father ; his younger brother Benjamin , to whom we now turn , was not to be so lucky .
2 The country had also suffered a longer and worse slump than its competitors .
3 They might have fared more comfortably had they sailed a longer journey — from Kingsburgh up to Waternish point , a journey which would then have taken them directly down into Loch Dunvegan — although local people told me the weather here can come up very quickly , and perhaps Allan Macdonald 's boat was not adequately large .
4 I used the longest of my Bronica range , which is the 250mm , and really needed a longer one .
5 I used the longest of my Bronica range , which is the 250mm , and really needed a longer one .
6 In a way I suppoise it was quite fortunate as we would have been without speed and wallace , who have now got a longer recovery period — as have all the other cripples that we 're carrying .
7 I think he should have got a longer sentence or maybe tried in Crown Court , but not just got away with three months .
8 I think he should have got a longer sentence or maybe tried in Crown Court , but not just got away with three months .
9 I think he should have got a longer sentence or maybe tried in Crown Court , but not just got away with three months .
10 But I I 'm wearing them all a little bit longer , except in the the winter cos I ca n't ca n't alter my coat I have got a longer summer coat to wear but the the one I had last year erm all the skirt showed beneath , I could n't walk about like that .
11 No actually it does n't have a curve , it is a triangle but it 's got a longer base has n't it ?
12 The students who , in the training trials , heard the buzz half a second before the shock , jerked their finger back more consistently than those who had had a longer gap between the buzz and the shock during training , and they did so much more markedly than those who heard the buzz at the time of the shock or after it ( see Fig. 24.1 ) .
13 To conclude that the potential for peasant revolution against the status quo remained undiminished in the decade after 1905 does not of course , dispose of the liberal contention that given a longer period of peaceful development the prospects would have changed .
14 The outbreak of hostilities had the immediate effect of silencing most of those within Congress who had spoken out against war , and effectively removed the argument that sanctions should be given a longer period in which to work .
15 ( S. ) 335 recognise the exception illustrated by this decision : if the offence to which the juvenile has pleaded guilty is punishable with 14 years ' imprisonment and is therefore one for which the juvenile can be detained under Children and Young Persons Act 1933 , s.53(2) for a longer period , a sentence of 12 months ' detention in a young offender institution is not objectionable , despite the plea of guilty , if the offence would have justified a longer term of detention under section 53(2) and the sentencer has given the juvenile a discount for his plea by choosing to impose a term of detention in a young offender institution rather than detention under Children and Young Persons Act 1933 , s.53(2) .
16 Lamarckism assumed that as an animal developed a longer neck or bigger muscles or something like that , through practice , it could pass these on to its , to its progeny .
17 He had taken a longer walk than he intended and by the time he returned to the coast road at Newlyn it was quite dark .
18 The acoustic in the solo works is a shade reverberant , and I 'd have liked a longer gap after the Concerto , but the recording quality throughout is very acceptable .
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