Sentence examples for few years long from inspiring English sources

I'm glad that "Meek's Cutoff" exists and that Kelly Reichardt is making a new film every few years — long may she direct.

Typically a tour of duty is a few years long, yet an agent might find herself chasing terrorists one year and interviewing bank robbers the next.

John and Irena were married for only a few years — long enough for her to come to know and loathe the Fauchers.

The full reckoning on Mr. Bloomberg's judgment about these major investments of public funds will most likely not come for a few years, long after he has run for a third term as mayor by arguing that he has been the wisest and steadiest of stewards — just the man for the city during hard financial times.

But in the last few years, long-distance international coal exports have been surging because of China's galloping economy, which now burns half of the six billion tons of coal used globally each year.

Team revenues are up in a big way, and in the past few years, long-term, eight-figure contracts have become prevalent for superstars.

In the past few years, Long Beach Airport has rejected plans to serve international destinations but has added new gate slots which allowed Southwest Airlines to fly out of the airport for the first time.

There are two kinds of stems or "cladodes": long plagiotropic, bearing flowers at the ends and falling off after a few years, and long orthotropic, primarily serving for support and transport and staying on the plant.

In any case she had probably gone on singing, at his behest, a few years too long.

When Groucho dies in 1977, at 86, you can't help feeling he lasted a few years too long.

But the lab staffers, who have been isolated for a few years too long, sympathize with Morgan.