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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
• No longer will I worry about favorites wrecking their seasons with three bad games.
• The tailorbird splices the short fibres together to make longer pieces.
• 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