If you think about how lengthy its history is, how much of the world it has touched and been imposed upon, and just how numerous and how diverse its speakers are today, you start to see just how unlikely it is that English would remain unaltered, at any point in its history. .
This means applicants can't quit their public service job after making 120 qualifying payments - they must still be an active employee when forgiveness is granted, no matter how lengthy that forgiveness process may be.
Clyde V. Prestowitz Jr., president of the Economic Strategy Institute, a Washington research organization, said it was impossible to know for sure how lengthy and pronounced a slide was in store for the dollar.
While the impact of the Asian crisis on Motorola may be less severe than feared, the larger question -- both for the region and for companies with sizable businesses in Asia, like Motorola -- is how deep and how lengthy the downturn will prove to be.
"To show you just how lengthy and convoluted these regulations are, we put together a checklist 12 pages long to help clinics comply," Keene said.
But we did not anticipate how lengthy.
No one could have imagined how lengthy.
Distributed on California Indian Music Project, Northwest region, tape 13, side B. Description: The song is preceded by rather lengthy account of how it was conceived.
In the early years of blogging, a whole lot of people — including me — made the same mistake: They wrote a lengthy screed about how someone was a total idiot who knew nothing about some topic … only to discover that they had misread the purported idiot, or misunderstood one of the central facts.
