Sentence examples for delay so long from inspiring English sources

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Delay so long in Lincoln Tunnel that bus drivers let all passengers off to walk rest of the way.

"Although I am to have the honour of an Audience with Your Majesty on Thursday next, I feel I should not like to delay so long before expressing to Your Majesty my deep regret at the development of recent affairs," wrote the PM on 23 June.

I can't explain why I'd delay so long, because the writing, always in those 55 minute bursts, gave me indecent joy – agonies too, of course, as I butted up against my own inadequacies, and despaired of my poverty of intellect, my hopelessly diminished vocabulary, and so on – but mostly I recall the joy of it.

It's one thing to provide emergency relief for "troubled assets," and its quite another for Congress to delay so long in asking how these assets came to be so troubled in the first place.

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WHY was their release delayed so long?

"People's gratification can only be delayed so long," he said.

This explains why the speech was necessary, though not why Labour delayed so long.

That may avert the immediate crisis because the hanging will be delayed so long as he is considering their petition.

Mr. Mineta said the financing had been delayed so long that his department could not catch up.

Asked why she delayed so long, Surura says: "I was hoping to deliver normally, and I trusted my God".

The teach-ins have worked so far: the $500 million Trans Thai-Malaysia Pipeline has been delayed so long that Malaysian officials are considering a new route that would bypass Thailand.

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