Sentence examples for as long now from inspiring English sources

So, for the next few weeks at least, Mr. Barroso will be center stage in a slow-motion pantomime that underscores the E.U.'s penchant for favoring procedural morass over the direct line from A to B. This is, after all, a body whose canon of laws, called the acquis communautaire, was estimated to run 80,000 pages in 2004 — and some critics claim it is twice as long now.

Mr Henry, Sir Lenworth Henry as now is, has been a stout heart in the business they call show for as long now as the stalwarts – Tommy Cooper, Michael Crawford – he first set out (aged 14) to impersonate.

And the poorest Americans have gained the most: blacks, for example, live more than twice as long now as they did a century ago.So it is both alarming and surprising when life expectancy falls, even for a small part of the population.

There are a few flurries now and then, as long as "now" and "then" are separated by 10 or 15 years.

The second world war happened as long ago now as the Franco-Prussian war happened before it.

Police will get the right to hold terrorist suspects for 24 hours without turning them over to a magistrate, twice as long as now.

For the "upper echelons, life expectancy for some might have been as long as now", he says.

So companies, not having to plan to pay future blue-collar pensions as long as they now do, would not be required to put aside as much pension money as government regulations now require them to do.

Yes, we decide what is news as long as "we" now includes every sentient human with access to a mouse, a remote or a cellphone.

For as long as Alice, now 32, can remember, her father, "a major drug dealer with freezers full of cocaine", was physically abusive towards her and her mother.

But a new study suggests that women should be taking the drug for twice as long as is now customary, a finding that could upend the standard that has been in place for about 15 years.