The phrase "retained longer" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe something that has been retained or held for a longer period of time. For example, "Memories from childhood are often retained longer than those from adulthood."
"Any document that is not required to be retained permanently, but must be retained longer than one year, we put into the seven-year category".
If, for a particular solute, the distribution favours the moving fluid, the molecules will spend most of their time migrating with the stream and will be transported away from other species whose molecules are retained longer by the stationary phase.
Or is there any evidence that what today's students learn is retained longer than earlier generations?
The tagged enzyme was retained longer in bone, with residual enzyme activity demonstrable at 48 hours after infusion.
Adding PEG coating on the O2 plasma treated PDMS surface can make hydrophilic behavior retained longer than 400 h.
64Cu/NOTA-dimer 2 exhibits higher tumor-to-blood ratio after 2 h and is also retained longer at the tumor site.
It is possible that the ability of late-EPCs to retain longer KSHV episomes may be related to the differentiative stage of these cells, that are not mature endothelial cells, but progenitors endowed with high replicative potential.
Longer-term persistence and function is provided by central memory phenotype T cells, and naïve T cells retain longer telomeres and the greatest proliferative potential (Hinrichs et al, 2011).
Another Gd chelate, gadobenate dimeglumine (Gd-BOPTA), can clearly visualize gliomas with a higher contrast to normal brain and a higher signal-to-noise ratio, and retain longer than Gd-DTPA.
We noticed that our filtering criteria for dealing with the methylome data (e.g. the exon must contain > =10 sampled CpGs; see Methods) tend to retain longer exons in the datasets.
These results are consistent with the explanation of Chang (2005), who predicted that populations of cells with Werner's syndrome will contain some very short telomeres with the majority retaining longer telomeres.
