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Example sentences for "much longer"

  • In the present species the cells are much longer, rather narrower, and the upper half is turned out abruptly at a rightangle, whilst in the former they ascend at an angle of 45 degrees, and the free portion is much shorter.

  • D'Urville would willingly have searched for an anchorage here, but sickness prevented him from delaying much longer on this coast.

  • It was marvellous, but my heart grew heavy, and I thought to myself at the time, she is not going to be with me much longer.

  • Whether they get a majority or not on the 15th, he knows that they cannot go on much longer.

  • Indeed, it is not likely that it will, under any circumstances, go on much longer.

  • He said the operations in Syria could not go on much longer, and we are threatened with the greatest of all evils, the hanging over of the question for another year.

  • I can say soothly that you will not have to bear it much longer, Lord Dale," he reassured.

  • So long a time, he has studied out, will it take me to come in to you; so much longer to do my errand; and so much longer to get back.

  • There is poor Rachel Sowerby up at Stenkrith; her mother has been down this morning to say that she cannot last very much longer.

  • Now we have not a moment to lose, they cannot be much longer; I must get out the horses myself, as Thomas will be at his sister's, and it will be better for him to know nothing.

  • I heard what he said--what you both said--that it could not go on much longer; and I saw his face when he thought he was alone.

  • They lived very happily for the space of about two years, and in all probability might have continued to do so much longer, had not the duenna who attended one of their wives, died, and a new one been put in her place.

  • Father, it's as I said--I can't struggle on much longer.

  • And the Count's interest seemed to take hands with her interest, which had had a much longer existence.

  • Then he said, 'Father, I cannot struggle on much longer.

  • But in such numbers did they press on that Guy saw that this barricade could not be much longer held.

  • Was it likely that the present patching up of the quarrel would have a much longer duration?

  • I am sure she could not have borne it much longer.

  • There was another silence, a much longer one.

  • And I cannot stay, much longer, in Park Street.

  • On the twentieth we crossed Large Pike Lake, which at that part was not more than seven miles wide; but from North North West to the South South East is much longer.

  • The hair of the body is soft and curled, somewhat approaching to wool; it is generally of a sandy brown, and of an equal length and thickness all over the body: but on the head and neck it is much longer than it is on any other part.

  • I am tolerably hard, and Uncle Corny harder still—from having lived so much longer—but either of us would rather have had a 64lb.

  • I am afraid it will take us so much longer, without having him here to direct us.

  • And this was only natural, because it always took a much longer time to buy them.

  • And, therefore, I am merely going to observe that, lately, it has seemed to me to be a pity that your life should continue much longer to be a life of inaction.

  • At first she thought she would drive, but it was a long way round by the road, much longer than by the river, and so she decided to walk, although the weather was inclined to be tempestuous.

  • But the frame-dip gives the most evenly dyes, and preserves the vats in good condition for a much longer time.

  • This day began to build a house to dwell in, finding our stay here will be much longer than we at first expected.

  • Well, you will not have to bear it much longer," Charley grinned.

  • If this thing keeps up much longer it will not need the enemy to put us out of business," he remarked to his chum as they prepared for bed.

  • No, mother, I can't go on much longer; I don't see my way a bit.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "much longer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    dependent areas; make firm; much afraid; much against; much alarmed; much amiss; much business; much cheaper; much comfort; much concerned; much danger; much delicacy; much depends; much fear; much gold; much higher; much importance; much less; much nitrogen; much salt; much suffering; much talk; much the same manner; much time; much wealth; particular proposition