Sentence examples for a rather longer from inspiring English sources

The phrase "a rather longer" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used when comparing lengths or durations, typically to indicate that something is longer than expected or usual. Example: "The meeting turned out to be a rather longer discussion than we had anticipated."

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There is a short answer and a rather longer one.

That said, we did find ourselves settling in for a rather longer and more bibulous session than we'd planned.

Lawson, last seen on Channel 4's cookery contest flop The Taste, will make a rather longer return to the BBC on BBC2 cookery show, Simply Nigella.

In the words of Stephen Fry, in a rather longer letter on the same subject: "He is making scapegoats of gay people, just as Hitler did Jews".

D1000 TBC shows a rather longer lifetime than L1000 TBC because of the alleviation of vertically cracks, but D1000 TBC possesses a much lower thermal barrier performance than L1000 TBC due to the dense structure of D1000 TBC.

And here, in a rather longer quote, is Schaeffer on the role of Christianity in civil government: … we must make definite that we are in no way talking about any kind of a theocracy.

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Last year, Byrne came forward with what she claimed is a previously unseen portrait of the writer, which depicts her seated at a table with a pen in hand and with a face rather longer than the round one familar to many owners of Austen novels.

Jupiter are a couple from France who met in a London club one night as the DJ "span" Mama Used to Say, the one-off 1982 hit by Junior the Britfunk boy wonder who was a boy for rather longer than he was a wonder.

Although in Germany the title of count (Graf) had become hereditary in most cases as early as the 10th century, the counts retained something of an official character rather longer than in France.

Comparing results of tenant pattern A and B, the processing time of pattern B became rather longer because a virtual load balancer resource creation needs much computer resource compared to other virtual resources in OpenStack but processing time characteristics were similar to pattern A. Figure 6 Results of measuring performance of each processing time.

Conversely, if the populations we study are not well-mixed, but subpopulations exist, thus providing a distinct population structure, the traits we find to be different between individuals might not be due to the effects of a few genes but rather longer term history of evolution, separation, drifts and so on (Yatsunenko et al., 2012).

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