Sentence examples for longer and only from inspiring English sources

Most fairs, by contrast, are rural, run for a week or longer, and only sometimes permit commercial exhibits in addition to their usual displays of community activities and commerce.

The new diagnostic criteria takes a far broader definition of GAD as excessive worrying about anything from "family, health, finances and school or work difficulties" for a reduced period of three months or longer, and only one of the six symptoms is required to reach a diagnosis.

Some from relatively faraway villages and towns will stay in the zones much longer and only visit home during holidays.

About half of all establishments survive five years or longer, and only one-third survive 10 years or more.

The best leave within two or three years - the slightly less good stay a bit longer, and only the also-rans and the terminally unimaginative are in for the long haul.

For a long time it was a game of chicken: we wouldn't eat until one of us had their hunger pangs intensify to the point that they couldn't take it any longer, and only then would they pick up the phone (I kept a stash of granola bars under my desk so that I could outlast the others).

Now only Leg Show buys longer work, and only half as much as it used to.

This document is out-of-date, no longer authoritative, and only here for historical purposes.

However, when a sample is withdrawn or the impeller is stopped, the complex droplets-in-drops formation no longer appears and only a simple dispersed structure develops.

The castle itself no longer exists, and only one of the six gates and a few fragments of the old walls survived in modern times.

As a consequence, the conventional analytical approach used to describe the pressure behavior is no longer applicable, and only numerical simulations can thoroughly describe the evolution of the saturation and pressure fields in the reservoir.