Sentence examples for dormant as long from inspiring English sources

H. cybister is native from Bolivia to Argentina, which means the bulbs are not frost-hardy, though they can spend the summer outside while dormant, as long as they don't get rained on.

Their tumorigenic potential remained dormant as long as Myc remained inactive; Myc reactivation immediately restored their neoplastic properties (Shachaf et al. 2004).

This reserve of chromatin-bound MCM2-7 complexes is much larger than is needed to duplicate the genome, and supplementary origins remain dormant as long as replication forks that proceed from selected origins move freely.

Plinian or subplinian eruptions sometimes happen after a dormant period as long as hundreds or thousands years.

Odorless and colorless, the spores are extremely stable, and can remain dormant for as long as fifty years or more...According to one estimate, 112 pounds of anthrax spores released along a 1.2-mile line upwind of a city of 500,000 residents would result in 125,000 infections -- and kill 95,000 people.

The spores remain in a dormant state as long as environmental conditions remain unfavorable.

A weak yen could increase America's trade deficit, an issue that was dormant in Congress as long as the economy was growing, but is already becoming a point of contention.

On Tuesday evening, one of those relics, the hulking 270-foot-high Astrotower, long dormant as a ride, managed to offer a bit of an unintended thrill as it swayed ominously above the Boardwalk.

There were appointments to make, and sex and basketball -- which can go dormant as topics for but so long -- to be given their due.

Inevitably, scholarship in the adjacent Frankish and subsequent French kingdom was influenced, leading to a revitalization of western Christian scholarship, which had long been dormant as a result of the barbarian migrations.

Bacteria (Bacillus pseudofirmus or Sporosarcina pasteurii) are mixed and distributed evenly throughout the concrete, but can lie dormant for up to 200 years as long as there is food in the form of particles.