Sentence examples for long rather from inspiring English sources

22 min: Kelly launches in a long, rather aimless cross from the left.

If I hadn't, A Close Shave would have been 50 minutes long, rather than 30, and that's an awkward length.

Weber prefers a smaller model than many outfielders, 12 ¾ inches long rather than 13 ½, and he breaks it in by pounding this stiffness out of it.

The pity is she felt the need to protect her partner for so long, rather than the couple being able to enjoy her success in the open.

He has the ears and antlers of a stag; handlike paws; athletic human legs and haunches; a horse's tail; and a long, rather elegantly groomed wizard's beard.

But even with such support, the evidence suggests that Britain's first recession for almost two decades is likely to be deep and long rather than shallow and short.

Yet what really allows the show to seem simply too long rather than an eternity is an unusually varied and tune-packed score.

3. Confirm your description of the book with quotation from the book, if only phrase-long, rather than proceeding by fuzzy précis.

Confirm your description of the book with quotation from the book, if only phrase-long, rather than proceeding by fuzzy précis.

Just another casualty in an 18-month-long, rather pointless, battle between the Departments of State and Commerce.

Worley and Kitto's hypothetical model [ 18] of the financial impact of a student on a rural general practice over time proved useful for preceptors to reflect on the likely impact of long- rather than short-term students.