Sentence examples for defend for long from inspiring English sources
"The team we had, the players missing, we had to defend for long times but it was a great effort.
Italy, with Bergomi on for the injured Collovati, were content to defend for long periods afterwards and rely on breaks that were cleverly engineered by Antognoni.
With nine Glasgow players in the team you could see the shrewdness of the intention but at this level it is a tactic rarely lasts the course of 80 minutes and despite the reputation for Schmidt teams to play high-octane rugby they are always comfortable to defend for long periods.
England won 41-10 and banked a bonus point to move above Scotland at the top of their group but they were forced to defend for long periods by a side playing their second match in four days, and gave away 11 penalties in the first half.
"The second half was completely different - we were having to defend for long, long periods of the game.
"I was really pleased with our attitude to defend for long periods against a quality team - at some stage the dam was going to bust.
The set-piece wasn't where we would like it to be which mean we ended up defending for long periods.
"Most of chances were one way and they ended up defending for long periods of time and overall we were worthy winners.
"Our front row came off second best and really struggled and when we had the ball we never went past four phases so we ended up defending for long periods.
"We defended for a long time and you run the risk, if you want to defend for that long, of conceding goals.
