Sentence examples for be longer than average from inspiring English sources

I think the recession will be longer than average.

One factor is the commercial breaks, which tend to be longer than average because the games are often nationally televised.

Beneath her skirts, she must be taking deplorably unfeminine steps, to move at the same pace as him: all right, granted, he may not be the tallest of men, but his legs are surely no shorter than normal - indeed, if the stunted lower classes were admitted into the equation, might his legs not be longer than average?

Forensic anthropologists only recently noticed that the forearms of the skeleton seemed to be longer than average, prompting them to study photos of Earhart to try to determine the length of her arms.

So NMD sensitive uORFs might be expected to be longer than average, or composed of sequence that results in slow translation.

At 5.4 kilometers, or 3.4 miles, it is longer than average, and it has the most corners of any Formula One circuit.

And since both of the films he directed -- the Oscar-winning "Dances With Wolves" and the critically panned "Postman" (1997) -- were longer than average, he has been pegged by some as vain and self-indulgent.

Even though he is moving into his 60s and his tenure as chief executive is longer than average, Polman has no plans to retire: "I am 100% concentrated as if it is my first day.

That the episodes are longer than average — an advantage of not being made for the traditional time-bound TV grid — also gives them a subtly felt added weight.

This means that, if the replication time is longer than average, the rate would be decelerated and vice versa.

In both organisms, the UTRs of mRNAs encoding ribosomal, nucleolar, and proteasomal proteins were shorter than average while the UTRs of mRNAs encoding proteins involved in signal transduction, transcriptional regulation, and the regulation of metabolism were longer than average.