There was still a chance for life, even though the odds were long ones.

While we're at it: short words are better than long ones.

But still I have not proved that short stories are better than long ones.

I stood up then and read the first two poems, the longer ones.

But by then, the exchange of long ones had begun.

The course required each of them to write either six short stories or three longer ones.

But you do long ones because they are in fashion.

The long ones could be the shadows of anything, you think.

And it's not just because they are easier to remember than longer ones.

The holidays, however, are over at last: I believe no children ever had such long ones.