Sentence examples for long usual from inspiring English sources

Patients underestimated how long usual activities required e.g., how long a bicycle ride would take or how much work they could do, thus not recognising their own poor physical state.

Getting around the city, in some places, took two to three times as long as usual.

The trip to the Ah Rong studios was taking twice as long as usual.

Before long, the usual canopy of lush green leaves had vanished.

And it took nearly twice as long as usual to write this column.

Getting home, they feared, would take them twice as long as usual.

The mouse lived twice as long as usual and won Dr. Bartke a prize presented by the Methuselah Foundation (which rewards developments in life-extension therapies) in 2003.

After the ceremony, which went long as usual, the bathroom was full of women retouching their makeup with wordless, hyper-focussed resolve.

When biologists disable the gene, worms live up to three times as long as usual, the equivalent of a person's living to age 240.

"People don't want to book for as long as usual," said Ms. Poret, who added that some homeowners have reduced minimum rental periods from seven to five nights.

With the roads blocked and power down, it took her three times as long as usual to return to her home in the 12 de Marzo neighbourhood.