Sentence examples for longer amount from inspiring English sources

"That is where we looked first and why it took a longer amount of time to shut down.

"You don't want to hold people up, but you know it's going to take you a longer amount of time.

You reduce the amount of detergent, you have got to have higher energy or you have got to have a longer amount of mechanical action.

CM: So did the fact that you had a longer amount of time have a bearing on the kind of music you wrote?

Beane's innovations no longer amount to much against a Texas rival with a deep farm system and a local television contract that will pay $80 million a year starting in 2015.

Looking back on our experience of pain, we prefer a larger, longer amount to a shorter, smaller amount, just so long as the closing stages of the greater pain were easier to bear than the closing stages of the lesser one.

Nobody ever complains, "My computer's too fast!" Macintosh fanatics and Windows partisans argue heatedly, but the differences no longer amount to much.

Further tests revealed that subjects who relied on therapy experienced better sleep quality as well, with longer amounts of time in deep sleep and REM sleep.

That deadline fell on June 17th, but Mr Obama did not ask, on the eccentric ground that America's "supporting role" no longer amounts to "hostilities".

Even though we know that a drink no longer amounts to a single unit, Jarvis says we still tend to underestimate the amount we're drinking, particularly at home.

The women's road team no longer amounts to Nicole Cooke alone – although that creates issues of its own – and Emma Pooley has kicked on since her surprise silver in the time trial in Beijing.