Sentence examples for longer than a quarter from inspiring English sources

The goodies in the Math Mix are shaped like pencil erasers, and although none is longer than a quarter inch, each is embedded with a numeral or a symbol.

Had I thought carefully about the rapid's name, I might have noticed that the part we were looking at was no longer than a quarter of a mile — which left a big unknown around the corner.

A microexpression is a subconscious flash of emotion across the face, lasting no longer than a quarter of a second, explains Robert Phipps, author of Body Language: It's What You Don't Say That Matters.

He was not the least bit happy about it, but the N.B.A. was not going to give him longer than a quarter to round up his Miami Heat cast members again, and screaming at them wasn't working, so the LeBron Show went on.

While they may now permit facial hair, they nonetheless still expect it to be "short and neat" (it can be no longer than a quarter of an inch, which, as Andrew Sullivan has pointed out, is not a beard – it's a gesture).

These little Super Talent drives are truly small – a little longer than a quarter is wide, and about about 75¢ tall.

But no, the reason that a 12-inning game today, for example, takes an hour and a half longer than a quarter-century ago, is twofold.

To be sure, it takes far longer than a quarter-century for a new international system to see uniform application.

Of the detainees Samphire currently helps, three quarters have been there longer than a month (most are detained for at least a month).

"He can go longer than a mile and a quarter.

Lives are longer and parents no longer routinely watch a quarter of their children die".