Sentence examples for how very long from inspiring English sources

How long ago, how very long ago that was.

He went on to emphasize how very long ago that was, mentioning "40-year-old facts having no logical relation to the present day," and that "history did not end in 1965".

The caption indicates how very long ago this was: But despite all the Norman Cousins-inspired hype about the health benefits of humor, research shows that 1) Cousins was probably misdiagnosed 2) humor can function as a mild analgesic 3) it doesn't promote longevity and 4) Cousins is dead.

Hensher seemed unwilling to rest on these particular laurels, except to say how very long it took him to write and how surprised he is that he wrote it at all, since he'd never read a historical novel or an adventure story in his life, nor wished to, come to that.

Although Nichols began life with a sense of himself as an unlovable alien — "I was the most popular of the unpopular kids," he joked of his unhappy childhood, adding that "it surprised me how very long it took me to grow past it" — he managed down the decades, through his success as a comedian, stage director, and filmmaker, to weave himself deep into the dream life of his half century.

As Women's History Month comes to a close, we can't forget how recent our freedoms are, how very long we were held down and held back, and how much further we still have to go.

Several studies have underscored the importance of psychosocial mechanisms for understanding how very long-lived adults maintain their quality of life despite increasing constraints [ 14, 15].

Something exciting that's happened in this unit is the development of a paradigm to explain how very long-distance elements regulate gene expression – these studies are mainly led by Bob Hill, Veronica van Heyningen and David Fitzpatrick.

However, there has not been a consensus on how the very long neck may have been used by the long-necked plesiosaur, or how flexible it may have been in life.

And while the process of formulating any strategic policy document is likely to involve plenty of 'blue-sky thinking' — thinking that never, ultimately, makes the cut as a bona fide policy pledge — it's nonetheless interesting to see how a very long-list of digital ideas has been whittled down and reshuffled into this set of "seven strands".

Here's our exchange (with some e-mail shorthand cleaned up): It always amazes me how even a very long climate article (by me, Justin Gillis or anyone else) still only seems to scratch the surface.