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How To Use longer In A Sentence

• Intellectual Dublin seemed no longer to consist of writers, but of folk singers, bearded or otherwise.
• Their dried dung is found everywhere, and is in many places the only fuel afforded by the plains; their skulls, which last longer than any other part of the animal, are among the most familiar of objects to the plainsman; their bones are in many districts so plentiful that it has become a regular industry, followed by hundreds of men (christened "bone hunters" by the frontiersmen), to go out with wagons and collect them in great numbers for the sake of the phosphates they yield; and Bad Lands, plateaus, and prairies alike, are cut up in all directions by the deep ruts which were formerly buffalo trails. VIII. The Lordly Buffalo
• It takes about eight seconds for a pair of lobsters to copulate; it takes a lot longer to get them into the mood.
• Don't go for a camera with longer than 5x to 6x optical zoom unless you plan doing a lot of telephotography! MyCE News, Articles & Reviews
• To be back and be sharp takes a bit longer. The Sun
• They will be slightly more expensive but they last a lot longer.
• He doesn't mean any of us impoliteness, but he needs a bit longer to warm to us.
• He argues that the two main parties are no longer capable of holding together the divergent views within them. Times, Sunday Times
• Looking through the casement was the visage of the mariner, no longer stern, but moved with unutterable emotion, and tears, yes, tears trickling down his weather-beaten cheeks. Edward Barnett; a Neglected Child of South Carolina, Who Rose to Be a Peer of Great Britain,—and the Stormy Life of His Grandfather, Captain Williams or, The Earle's Victims: with an Account of the Terrible End of the Proud Earl De Montford, the Lamen
• It's really weighing her down because she's not living up to her ideals any longer.