Sentence examples for anticipated so long from inspiring English sources
It went longer than anticipated — so long, in fact, that the show's producers decided to cut the original introduction Mr. Stewart taped, which featured a riff of the host fiddling with a pen and tapping his fingers as he pretended to make the president wait in the wings, and his introduction of Mr. Obama as "White House chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers Austan Goolsbee's boss".
The "long, blind, doorless and windowless corridor of pain" that Plath's thinly veiled protagonist, Esther Greenwood, anticipated so memorably in "The Bell Jar" is too meandering here.
They never anticipated staying so long.
And the final confrontation between the police and the Mardi Gras Indians, anticipated for so long, seemed strangely rushed.
It may well have been intended for Dre's album Detox, which has been anticipated for so long it's the rap equivalent of Guns N Roses Chinese Democracyy.
I'm not saying this will happen, but this is the first time I've seen such a highly anticipated release so long before its official release date.
In case any of us were feeling a little wistful for that reason, or that a contest so eagerly anticipated for so long is over in such a beautiful blink of the eye, Bolt gave us a little reminder before he left the stadium that something even more stunning may be just round the curve.
Having anticipated last week for so long, some Cheltenham diehards will be appalled to discover that a new Flat season opens at Doncaster on Friday.
Beyond this, the museum is anticipating planetarium lines so long that astronomical lecturers are being hired to entertain standees with impromptu talks on science and space.
The first debate between President Obama and Mitt Romney, so long anticipated, quickly sunk into an unenlightening recitation of tired talking points and mendacity.
Thus the expansion, so long anticipated as the fulfillment of dreams for half a continent oppressed during the Soviet era, had an ill-mannered side to it.
