Sentence examples for nothing longer from inspiring English sources

As I recall, what turned out to be "Texas" was always going to be a short story, and nothing longer.

A reader named foosball sent the sentences that open Charles Dickens's "Great Expectations": "My father's family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip.

All the recipes take around 30 minutes – nothing longer than 50 – and while they may be nutritionally balanced, they certainly aren't boring (Buy of the Day fancies a goat's cheese and spinach frittata for lunch, thanks).

On the other hand, missing five putts of 7 to 10 feet and making nothing longer than a 4-footer for par, as Woods did, can leave you exasperated.

The novel's first line – "My father's family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip" – was subject to a host of revisions, with "infant" clearly a replacement for another word, possibly childish.

While the Italians will try to beat you with their charm, the French with their cooking, the Japanese with their efficiency, the Russians will do nothing so active: they will win by doing nothing longer than you are willing to wait.

Nothing takes longer than 30 minutes, so this junior Jamie really does understand his audience!

On Tuesday, with nothing any longer at stake, he conceded at least that tiny bit of misjudgment.

As a corollary, a period of doing nothing appears longer than an equally long period when one is doing something.

It is safe to say that his interpretations of "Sometimes When We Touch" and "I Who Have Nothing" no longer hold many surprises for Rickles.

The desert of the strange defeat was more bewildering than the desert of Libya had been; nothing any longer made sense.