Sentence examples for long fact from inspiring English sources

For three decades at this magazine, starting in 1967, he edited long fact pieces.

McPhee writes: For three decades at this magazine, starting in 1967, he edited long fact pieces.

Shawn edited the piece himself, as he routinely did with new writers of long fact, breaking them in, so to speak, but not exactly like a horse, more like a baseball mitt.

Back in the office in New York, I asked to see Mr. Shawn, and went in and told him about my visit to the island, and proposed a long fact piece on the Outward Bound movement.

In discussing a long fact piece, he said, often enough, "How do you know?" and "How would you know?" and "How can you possibly know that?" He was saying clearly enough that any nonfiction writer ought always to hold those questions in the forefront of the mind.

What follows is a condensed version of several exchanges: Ellen's hiring was all down to Jake Brackman, who made his name at The New Yorker with two long fact essays, one on pop (a fresh subject in those days) and one on "The Graduate".

This year Mr. Zenón also received a Guggenheim research grant and took a long fact-finding trip back to Puerto Rico.

Nor is it the country that I became familiar with over many years as a professor and director of the University of Southern California's Center for International Journalism when I escorted American and Mexican journalists on summer-long fact-finding semesters.

So long, in fact, that the history is worth recalling.

It's repetitive and a bit too long, in fact.

Ten times as long in fact, being now in its 53nd year.