The phrase "a comparatively long" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when comparing the length of one object or concept to another, indicating that it is longer in relation to something else.
Example: "The journey took a comparatively long time compared to our previous trips."
Alternatives: "relatively long" or "somewhat lengthy".
A recent meta-analysis by Neubauer et al. (2013) detected that fish populations exposed to moderate levels of overfishing for a comparatively long period of time had increased recovery ability when compared to populations subjected to overfishing for shorter periods of time.
Experience with wheat, sugar, and tin agreements, which cover a comparatively long period, is not conducive to generalization.
Extending from each nerve cell is an axon, a comparatively long, threadlike projection that can convey signals to a neighboring nerve, creating a pathway.
Instead, the anthropologists propose that a long childhood exists on one end of the human life span mainly because a comparatively long old age exists on the other end, and that in a long-lived species there are benefits to slow growth that have little to do with learning -- benefits like not threatening the older competition before said elders are safely stooped and toothless.
The example solution depicted in Fig. 5 is a comparatively long lived solution (Video 4).
If hundreds of flies are tracked for a comparatively long period, trajectories are fragmented and the identity is not preserved.
A disadvantage is the comparatively long examination time.
That's comparatively long for a photo in our Snapchat-heavy times.
We noted above that many antigenically stable infectious diseases (measles, chickenpox for example) have comparatively long infectious durations compared with emergent infections (Table 1).
Due to this comparatively long life, a long mRNA untranslated region is important in these cells.
Whether these effects of TNF blockade on local bone metabolism are long-term effects is currently unknown, since the duration of treatment, although comparatively long for a model of inflammatory arthritis, is not designed to assess potential long-term effects.
