Sentence examples for existed so long from inspiring English sources

However, the common ancestor of these languages, if there was one, existed so long ago that it is almost impossible to apply sound comparative methods to modern languages in order to test this hypothesis.

What I found surprising in your book was that blackface had existed so long and I had this misconception that it existed in the distant vaudeville days of comedy but it went on for a long time.

It's a situation in which the weak are employed by the greedy to satisfy the thankless, and because of that it's a wonder the dining industry has existed so long.

Falwell and so many white Evangelicals like him have existed so long in a cloistered religious bubble, hunkered down in a fear-filled bunker perpetually preaching to their own hateful choir, that they've lost any perspective on the Christ they're supposed to be living for, reflecting and sharing with the world.

It is the "hand that holds the pen that writes history," the movie repeats like a refrain, and in Colette's hand, we have someone writing history that has existed so long on the margins, someone who can finally make these stories known and who is so meaningful precisely because, thanks to women like her, others get to have a pen of their own.

It appears to me that I have forgotten how to use it, and the disorder has existed so long that the limb does not seem to be part of me' (Yealland, 1918, p. 93).

The authorities here let you exist so long as you don't call them into question.

"The state lets the opposition exist so long as there is no coalition," Mikhail Kasyanov, the former Prime Minister, told me.

Violence against servicewomen will continue to exist so long as sexual assault is treated as an internal military matter.

So long as a single nuclear weapon exists, so long as the ability to process weapons-grade fissile exists, the risk of catastrophe will, too.

Still, so long as the hierarchy exists — so long as Charney, as C.E.O., had the power to fire anyone else — it is unpersuasive to maintain that a sexual encounter between him and another employee could happen on equal footing.