Sentence examples for has stood longer from inspiring English sources
The apartment complex has stood longer than its fabled ancestor.
How many might have been saved if the buildings had stood longer?
Perhaps they were disabled or attempting to help others, he said, noting that if the buildings had stood longer, some of them might have survived.
In light of that initial government assessment, some engineers suggested that other buildings might have stood longer or not fallen at all after a similar attack.
If the plane that hit the south tower had been traveling slower, and the tower perhaps had stood longer, it is still unclear how many more people would have survived.
The experts have been careful to say that it is possible that no building, no matter how well built or fireproofed, could have withstood the damage inflicted, and they have not speculated on whether an enormous number of lives -- particularly the many trapped on the upper floors -- might have been spared if the buildings had stood longer.
But as scientists and engineers have gained these hard-won glimpses into the mechanics of a tragedy, there is one other question that almost all of them have carefully avoided asking: could another building, indeed any building, no matter how stoutly or cleverly built, have stood longer than the twin towers did, let more people escape or perhaps never collapsed?
But in doing that she will break a barrier that has stood far longer than 24 years.
It has stood for 45 years, 17 longer than the Berlin Wall.
Last week, a few days after her husband had tried to catch a few minutes of the N.F.C. championship game in an airport while his team prepared to leave Chicago after a victory at Northwestern — Crean admitted he would have stood there longer if he had not had 50 people waiting for him — she had a mental checklist for the next few days.
