The phrase "a third longer" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when comparing the length of one object or duration to another, indicating that it is one-third greater in length.
Example: "The new version of the report is a third longer than the previous one, providing more detailed information."
Alternatives: "one-third longer" or "33% longer".
(The book would have been a third longer had wartime paper scarcity not made Rand cut the manuscript).
This mechanism has been retained by mice, which live a third longer if fed a healthy but very low-calorie diet.
It comes after a 2012 report by the OECD found Spanish school children spend 6.4 hours a week on homework, almost a third longer than the average in developed nations.
Yet James's own translation of the poem, published in 2013, was a third longer than the original and, with its surfeit of fusty-sounding words ("whereat", "whomever"), gave the impression that Dante wrote in an antique Italian, when he did not.
Dr. Catya von Károlyi, an associate professor of psychology at the University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, found that people with dyslexia identified simplified Escher-like pictures as impossible or possible in an average of 2.26 seconds; typical viewers tend to take a third longer.
CBS executives were so enthusiastic about the results that they agreed to let the first episode run nearly a third longer than most hour-long dramas; to accommodate the extra length, they recruited a single sponsor — the Warner Brothers film "The Departed" — and ran the show with limited commercials.
A third longer-term objective, he said, was ensuring that stern warnings for leaders to stop wholesale, unjust violence against their people won't "ring hollow" in the future". If Qaddafi clings on to power, what exactly will be the measurable outcome of a "stern warning"?
The Great British Sewing Bee will return for a second longer series, BBC Two has confirmed.
The technology has also helped over-eating mice stay slim and live a fifth longer.
