When we showed the result to Priya she gazed at it for a long while, pleased, then said: "Look, all the 'o's".
I stood and watched the dense black hole of the window for a long while and then I went back to the car and sat listening to the radio in the dark until I fell asleep.
Nothing seems to happen for a long while, and then, all of a sudden, when the timing and conditions are just right: a growth spurt, a brilliant bloom, and a metamorphosis - all enabled by the same DNA.
He did not think himself a poet for a long while, and even then poems came fitfully when they came at all.
And here we were, flying forever, it seemed, while the earth, very far below, kept changing colors burned brown, then green, and then, for a long while, dark blue.
Usher looked pleased as he joined Mr. Robson and, without saying a word, they danced for a long while, trying first one idea then another, relishing the movement.
He lay on the frozen ground for a long while, too frightened to move, then worked his way out of the handcuffs and pulled off his blindfold.
Then I disconnected for a long while, until it was brought to my attention that it was possible that Formula One was looking at Austin.
