Sentence examples for becomes so long from inspiring English sources

The history shared by these characters becomes so long and fraught and tangled over the course of his hundreds of pages and years (thanks to genetic longevity treatments, Robinson's able to keep the same ensemble of characters around for centuries) that it gives me a pang of longing and nostalgia and bittersweet sense of life's length and brevity.

It became so long and daunting that he decided it was too much.

Why a nose ever became so long and flexible in a land animal has long been a mystery.

They didn't care what I became, so long as I got an education and used my talents.

Queues of mainland Chinese tourists trying to book weekend getaways to Hong Kong became so long last week that travel agents had to recruit retired employees to cope.

Delays became so long that employers had to appoint teachers and care assistants with no screening at all, increasing the risk to children.

The list of the people who kissed me and did other things with me became so long that now I cannot remember the names on it.

Sooner than later, Ben began to compile a list of words he was commonly having difficulty locating when he needed – but to his frustration, the list became so long, it took him almost as long to find it on paper.

As the push for disclosure gained ground in the last 30 years, disclosures became "so long and confusing that they didn't really help consumers, but they certainly posed burdens on lenders," Mr. Cordray said.

The guidance from this period gives UKBA staff the discretion to take further measures to reduce checks on health and safety grounds if the airport queues become so long that it becomes dangerous.

… while the Catalan beer brand Estrella Damm, whose yearly summer ads have become so long they qualify as short films, made use of the Platja dels Capellans in its latest production, starring Game of Thrones's Peter Dinklage.