Sentence examples for a long five years from inspiring English sources

They have been a long five years indeed.

"It's been a long five years," her sister Ja-young Yoo said, a reference to the soaring golf expectations in South Korea.

She said it had been a long five years since the night he left their apartment at 11 p.m. to buy cigarettes and never returned.

That album, a long five years in coming, is from one of very few contemporary bands still able to elicit wild hyperbole: it may be that even the president is excited about the Strokes' return.

Conceding that it had been "a long five years," Ms. Rice said that Iraq had made "significant progress, remarkable progress," however fragile, and she quoted President Jalal Talabani, who had said that the country was experiencing "a political spring".

"It has been a long five years," she admits.

It has been a long three years.

It's been a long four years".

It'll be a long four years".

"It's just been a long two years.

It could be a long four years for a Republican insider with a hothouse persona.