Sentence examples for long building up from inspiring English sources

The home secretary, Theresa May, is urgently considering contingency plans to avoid traffic queues up to five miles long building up at Dover when exit checks on all passengers are imposed on all British ports in three weeks time.

The question is whether it will dig a deeper hole by losing the air of trust and reputation for competence among customers it has spent so long building up.

There are restaurants in my neighborhood where I have spent a long time building up a reputation as a good tipper.

"Without drilodefensins, fallen leaves would remain on surface of the ground for a very long time, building up a thick layer.

But in other areas, affirmative action being one, the debate has run long enough, building up a huge and internally inconsistent body of case law; it is time for a decision.

American officials are loath to talk about this silver lining to the storm cloud that they have long described building up in the tribal area of North Waziristan, where the insurgents run a virtual mini-state the size of Rhode Island.

Since the terrorist attacks of 2001, the need for Americans with security clearances to work for the Pentagon and military contractors has soared, with a long backlog building up in the early years of the Bush administration.

Songs ranged in style from the succinct verses or couplets of central Australia and the Great Sandy Desert, which were made up of three, four, or more words repeated in linked sequences, to the more elaborate songs of northeastern Arnhem Land, which were long verses building up complex word pictures through symbolic allusion and imagery.

The problem is that in making the move from one technology to the next, we encounter the disadvantages of planned obsolescence: What happens to the record collection we spent so long lovingly building up?

Indeed, CDT has long advocated building up a civilian cybersecurity capability, precisely to reduce the need to rely on NSA.

Copyright, passing off and unfair competition could all potentially be enforced against counterfeiters because they have spent a long time building up goodwill and brand recognition in their product and wider brand.