Still, for the first time in a long while, even we practitioners of the dismal science can afford a bit of optimism.
Growth is outpacing that of America for the first time in a long while; even better, domestic demand seems to be perking up, which will make Europe better able to survive an American downturn should one materialise.Still, there's more than a bit of room for gloom.
It took a long while, even in the privacy of the studio, for Dawson to feel that he could take a picture, though when he did so eventually, he produced perhaps his most indelible work: portraits of the artist as an old, ragingly creative man.
Women have been taking chances and winning for a long while even against tougher odds and lesser opportunities.
He did not think himself a poet for a long while, and even then poems came fitfully when they came at all.
The current haplessness of the G.O.P. across Westchester and New York State may last a long while, but even gloating Democrats should be careful what they wish for.
Writing and performing allowed him a way out, even if it has taken him a long while to acknowledge that fact.
You can even bring it up, but only a long while after the wedding.
She's in a bright bikini and long raggedywet hair and I remember how long it had been since I'd seen a girl in a bikini or any girl at all because my wife had left me a long while ago, even then having stopped being a girl in any way you could think of, and went back to living in Lowell, Massachusetts, the place she come from and left just to plague me.
