Sentence examples for long lagging from inspiring English sources

The 13-minute piece never quite loses interest — it is too exuberantly dark for that — but, unlike Mr. Widmann's Clarinet Fantasie, it feels a little long, lagging before a genuinely feverish finale in which Schumann emerges from the seething strings before receding back into a lush web of noise.

After Jimmy Haslam bought the Cleveland Browns in the summer, he stood in the middle of a field at his very first practice, wearing a Browns T-shirt and shorts, a promising sign that the franchise — one of the N.F.L.'s most storied, but long lagging while in the hands-off control of the former owner Randy Lerner — would finally have the attention and enthusiasm of the person in charge.

The economy of Diyarbakir and the south-east has long lagged behind the rest of Turkey.

In international comparison exams, American students have long lagged behind those in much of Asia and Europe.

Long lag times for starting a business have deterred American investment.

This coastal area of rural Iwate Prefecture has long lagged behind the rest of Japan.

The biggest American automaker, General Motors, has long lagged industry leaders in consolidating platforms.

According to PalTrade (Palestine Trade Center), exports have long lagged behind imports to the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

THE northern two-thirds of British Columbia have long lagged behind the province's populous, temperate south economically.

For the global city that it is, London has long lagged behind 24-hour metropolises such as New York and Berlin.

Implicitly, Sanders went on to call Clinton out, noting she had long lagged behind him on a number of progressive causes.