Sentence examples for a very long while from inspiring English sources

Trudeau was perhaps the pivotal figure in helping the country past a larger crisis that for a very long while seemed likely to end with its dissolution.

Yet at the same time he remains a rather charming figure, speaking in a florid, dandyish vernacular ("her breasts are the most copious I have experienced in a very long while") and possessed of a psychopathic belief in his social superiority to all around him.

Sometimes, for a very long while..

So this means that all we are left to do is fantasize about fleeing to some exotic destination or better still, we can think about all the annoying people we wish would simply vanish without a trace (at least for a very long while).

It's a long way from anywhere, and it's been that way for a very long while.

"That took a very long while to effectuate — very long," Polian said.

"I haven't had a weekend off in a very, very long while," Moffat said in a phone interview, quickly adding with a chuckle: "When I go on to my inevitable failures in the future, I will remember these as the days".

I remember having to pose for a very long time while the old photographer fiddled, under a black cloth, with a three-legged contraption with bellows.

The first step requires an inert, stable material that will hold the radioactive atoms trapped for a very long time, while the second step requires a material that is highly resistant to corrosion and degradation.

Most important, the term "potential resources" refers to the amount likely to be discovered over a very long time, while our current reserves are those that have already been found but not yet tapped.

"So being able to project across a very long timeline while still being focused on the immediate tug and pull of politics I think is a useful lesson, and an accurate portrayal of how I think about my work day to day".