Sentence examples for Lengthening from inspiring English sources

The public's willingness to pay extra tax to help the NHS has reached its highest level in over a decade amid growing concern about hospitals slipping into the red, waiting lists lengthening and the service becoming unsustainable.

But at the same time the distance is lengthening between them and the Americans, only 25% of whom see themselves in a special relationship with the UK.

And they say the Trans-Pacific deal will do big favours for pharmaceutical companies and other US corporations, for instance, by lengthening copyright protections and the monopoly period for newly developed drugs.

It is expected to increase the retirement age to 62 or 63 from 60, while lengthening the duration of contributions required for a full pension.Italy has also announced about €25 billion in budget cuts.

Delays for maintenance are lengthening.

"Now that there's a lot of continuity politically, the investment horizons are lengthening," says Arminio Fraga.

He and Mr Fillon have tried to explain the need for France to preserve benefits for tomorrow's pensioners by lengthening working life.

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Airbus, Europe's giant aircraft manufacturer, reckons this problem can be overcome by lengthening the catapult along a runway and accelerating aircraft more slowly.

But in the past decade its operator, Wilson, Sons, spent 260m reais on replacing equipment, lengthening the quay and deepening the draft.

The only experiments on laboratory animals that have definitely shown a life-lengthening effect have involved subjecting rats and mice to a severely restricted diet.