Sentence examples for it would be long from inspiring English sources

Rumour, which never shrinks from busying itself with the "intentions" even of those authors who are least inclined to feel its appetite, had persistently asserted that it would be long before Middlemarch would be followed by another work of prose fiction.

We said it would be long.

He thought it would be long, but it landed in the far corner.

"I anticipated it would be long, but not this long," the Universal chairwoman, Stacey Snider, said.

If Douglas wore a wig, it would be long gone by now.

He said he didn't know when the film would air, but he promised that it would be "long and arty".

We all had to eat the same thing or else it would be long-winded with everyone saying "I want this and I want that".

After a few dozen catechistic variations, it became clear that the morning would be long.

It would be a long, long eight hours.

It would be a long game.

It would be a long drive.