Sentence examples for largely long from inspiring English sources

His claim that he alone could lead Fifa through its current crisis appears laughable to those outside but those listening to the deadening speeches inside had largely long since decided how they were going to vote.

Keane also, in forceful terms, hit out at the criticism directed at the Republic team for not varying its tactics from a largely long ball game.

In a sense, this is potentially an even more explosive model in a region like Asia where there are a lot of offline smaller merchants that traditionally sell to very local customers in physical markets — an economic model that has largely long disappeared in the U.S. (partly thanks to companies like Amazon).

Compared with drug treatment that is largely long term, successful lifestyle changes have an impact beyond the intervention period [ 8, 10].

Coca-Cola's problems are different from Wal-Mart's in that they are largely long-term.

Although the new loans were largely long-term and low-interest, they carried provisions that intruded on the everyday spending decisions of the state and, in the opinion of many observers, crushed hopes of economic growth.

Melanie is a high profile investigative reporter for an international cable news network who has been involved with New York's top cop in a largely long-distance and very discreet romance.

According to The Associated Press, after walking through ruined classrooms at the Tublamu School, Ms. Bellamy said that "the needs here in Thailand, for the Thai people, are largely long-term rebuilding of livelihoods and community".

Comparison of the offspring of LLI with their contemporaries controls for cohort effects such as variation in BMI in human populations over time; it has the limitation, however, of under-estimating the difference in phenotypes and genotypes that would presumably be observed if the LLI could be compared with their largely long-deceased birth cohort.

But Mr. Ellison is in the minority on Capitol Hill, where the debate over Israel and Iran was largely settled long ago.

The tense is largely passive, long words are preferred to short ones and convoluted locutions are de rigueur.