Sentence examples for considerable length before from inspiring English sources

"Clearly, whether or not to depict smoking at all, even in a very critical way, is a judgment call, and we did debate the point at considerable length before going ahead.

Even superhero comic books these days are dominated by pituitary accidents intent on sharing their inner-traumas at considerable length before they slam each other through walls.

From the roots five or six shoots spring up, which become available for the production of lacquer after about six years, and the operation can be thus continued for a considerable length of time before the growth is exhausted.

Here we provide more details on the above-noted case with considerable difference between the map length before and after consensus analysis (89.2 cM vs. 132.9 cM) for chromosome 9 in set 21.

Recently, Jayasuriya et al. (2010) reported still another kind of epicotyl dormancy in seeds of the Sri Lankan tropical rainforest understorey tree H. laurifolia (Fabaceae, subfamily Caesalpinioideae), in which the shoot needs to grow to a considerable length inside the seed before it can emerge.

"But if you look at countries where there is one referendum, say, every few years, there's been a long run on to the referendum where the issue has been debated at considerable length, then people would have made up their minds before going into the polling booth and words of the questions is then of relatively minor importance," says Prof Qvortrup.

The reader then proceeded to do so, at considerable length.

Otherwise, words tumbled from him at giddying speed and considerable length, mostly on predictable Tory lines.

Claude Lanzmann interviewed a Treblinka Sonderkommando, Abraham Bomba, at considerable length in his epic documentary Shoah.

Ivan Karamazov goes on at considerable length about the Grand Inquisitor, after all, and few people object.

If Mr. Lawrence thought to give intensity to the whole length (the very considerable length) of his story by this mingling of contrary passions, he miscalculated seriously.