Sentence examples for lengthy gestation from inspiring English sources

Days Are Gone is named after its own lengthy gestation.

Such lengthy gestation gives both books a loosely woven, episodic quality.

After a lengthy gestation, however, the album (which was to have been titled Detox) was scrapped.

Despite a No 5 debut album, she was dropped by her label; her second LP, self-released this year after a lengthy gestation, only reached No 45.

Mr. Burns, 54, whose PBS career spans 30 years, refers to the documentary as an "epic poem," and like most of his work it had a lengthy gestation.

"It's a big job to get right but we think we've cracked it," said Mike Darcey, Sky's chief operating officer, adding that the service's lengthy gestation had "caused no pain".

Elsewhere, the band's creative partner, artist Stanley Donwood rattled the collecting tin a bit, pointing out the album's lengthy, agonized gestation, which at one point entailed fraught discussions about splitting up.

The first skateboard boom in 1963 1965 followed a lengthy initial gestation period that featured exploration of the potential for riding a piece of wood with mounted roller skate assemblies (see Figs. 1 and 2 for key skateboard terms).

I refer of course to William Wyler's Wuthering Heights starring Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon as Heathcliff and Cathy, which opened in 1939, and Robert Stevenson's foggy, gothic Jane Eyre, which appeared after a lengthy period of gestation in 1943, with Joan Fontaine as a beautiful, rather refined Jane, and Orson Welles as a wild, charismatic Rochester.

Prof James Holmes, a China-watcher at the US Naval War College, says the chief significance of the new vessel "is that China appears to have settled on a design for a top-of-the-line guided-missile destroyer after a lengthy period of 'fleet experimentation' - a gestation period, if you will".

As in elephants, the gestation period of Paraceratherium may have been lengthy and individuals may have had long lifespans.