Sentence examples for late long from inspiring English sources

Others, however, say the help came too late, long after they had dug deep into their savings to begin work.

First, the US "red line" policy over chemical attacks came very late; long after the Arab red lines.

(There are those who think that the late long First Folio "Hamlet" is a messy author's expansion of the short, stern early quarto, but they are a minority).

1975 China adopts the slogan "late, long and few", encouraging couples to have one child, and urging them to have no more than two.

He acknowledged that he had come to it late, long after most of the world had abandoned it, but said that it had clicked for him after he had read Victor Hugo's epic novel "Les Misérables".

Late in the half, I checked my watch and discovered I had been in this arena for about 12 hours, having arrived early, long before most of the fans, and would be leaving late, long after most of them.

But where, asks Littlejohn, is the liberal chorus of outrage and shame that you might expect at this late, long-winded stage?

Another contender is Vasso Papandreou, the development minister and former EU social-affairs commissioner (and no relation of Pasok's late, long-serving populist prime minister, Andreas Papandreou), who hopes to be Greece's first woman prime minister.

Leigh Halfpenny, who used his late long-range penalty miss in the semi-final against France as motivation rather than a source of grief, kept them a score ahead of France with his boot after failing to take Wales's first kick, which saw Priestland hit the post, because he had been receiving treatment after being tackled by Fritz.

Brittain's late long-range leveller earned the Highlanders a point at Tannadice.

Courtney Richards netted a late long-range consolation but Barnet held on.