Sentence examples for arriving long from inspiring English sources

While it would have been nice to have played a full-blown Zelda, Mario, Metroid or Donkey Kong game for the Wii U, such things weren't built in a day, and it's clear that the Wii U won't be arriving long before Christmas (Nintendo refused to be drawn on a launch date or pricing).

I suggest that the new Windows Surface tablet - a very attractive and cleverly designed piece of kit that does have the wow factor - has nevertheless missed the boat, arriving long after the iPad and host of other devices.

It's how junk mail can keep arriving long after a consumer has made his or her preference known to a business.

Some arrive long after getting hurt.

She was supposed to have arrived long ago.

Urbanites arrived long ago, promoting preservation of all this beauty, but bringing change, too.

Why did my nursery furniture arrive long past the due date?

But her refund arrived long after she had had to pay the second tuition.

All arrived long ago – by air, on ocean currents, and atop rafts of vegetation that bumped ashore against all odds.

The literary traditions of Indonesia and of Malaysia, where the religion of Islam arrived long ago, are also worth noting.

Mr. Cairo, 56, arrived long before the vast majority of them, in 1990, after the Soviet occupation.