Sentence examples for given so long from inspiring English sources

There was something pleasingly archaic about reading lectures given so long ago, and still full of the speaker's housekeeping notes: "Next Thursday it will be the motive of Encounter — the experience of two people meeting in love.

Holmes says financial help can only be given so long as it does not duplicate any other tax or benefit to which the adoptive parents are entitled, and it is always means-tested (see www.direct.gov.uk).

The Independent reports this morning that Louis van Gaal has two matches to save his job at Manchester United, but to be brutally honest, he's lucky to be given so long to remain at the helm of what is supposed to be the biggest club in the world.

The idea is to give so as long as it doesn't hurt you or your business.

A signed hockey puck, the only gift I have, had, that my father had given me so long ago.

"For Brighton it's a real coup, he sat here behind Shay Given for so long and is unfortunate to have a top young goalkeeper like Tim come through and push him to one side".

Two years later the Supreme Court, in the disastrous Citizens United ruling, cleared the way for unlimited donations to — and expenditures by — "super PACs" that could promote a given candidate so long as they didn't coordinate with him or her.

So began my most extraordinary drug trip, the most intense since controlled substances carried a generation of goofballs like me into the darkness or light or wherever it was we were traveling in any given moment so long ago.

Virtually all of my reading hours are spoken for, but recently I realized that there are always little patches of potential reading time around the edges of any given day — so long as I don't need my hands or eyes, that is.

A similar principle applies in the UK, with people who do not opt-out of 48 hour weeks allowed to spend more time than that working on a given week, so long as their average over 17 weeks remains below the limit.

"I don't care what you give me, so long as it's enough to help me fling this patio table through that shop window".