Sentence examples for a long time surely from inspiring English sources

It's a long time surely since so many of Britain's leading composers were gathered together under the same roof.

"Our renewed interest in these two young women, who then held the throne for such a long time, is surely part of what can be called our "succession anxiety," said academic Sarah Richardson.

For a long time, and surely in part thanks to Big Night, the Primos have been prevailing, not just in the form of authentic cuisine but with lengthy tasting menus and an overall sense that diners should submit themselves to a chef's vision, rather than requiring a kitchen to live up to their own tastes and expectations.

It's something I've been observing and thinking about for a long time, and surely has some sociological implications, It's yet another way that technology has infiltrated into every facet of our lives, even something so basic and primal as giving birth - with the caveat of course that a cesarean birth is yet another level of technological infiltration, but that's a whole other discussion.

I've been one of Bell's much dismayed fans for a long time and this is surely the innings for him to reward our faith/ hopeless susceptibility to clean classical stroke play.

But it is surely a long time, if ever, since Snoop had to shop around for his car insurance.

It took the Foreign Office a long time to reach the conclusion – surely obvious – that the Oxford graduate is in fact a "human rights defender", and so deserving of state protection.

After more than twenty years of reading the opinions of a man who left the valley for Surrey a long time ago, local people will surely welcome the opportunity to write for their paper.

If a week is a long time in politics, 12 months is surely an eternity.

It will surely be a long time before British boots are put on the ground to secure US foreign policy aims again.

What now? Modest development has survived or is restarting in all the major northern cities, but it will surely be a long time before we see ambition again on the scale of this century's first seven years.