Sentence examples for long occasion from inspiring English sources

The first and best-known aphorism is, "Life is Short, Art long, Occasion sudden and dangerous, Experience deceitful, and Judgment difficult" (often shortened to the Latin tag, "Ars longa, vita brevis").

The question of why the British government should have established a colony in so distant and isolated a site has long occasioned dispute.

Patients completed daily diaries on two week-long occasions: after the intake interview and again after the sixth session of CT.

Ms. Paternostro, in probing her dual identity, stews a little too long on occasion.

And despite the advances in the art of healing in the last two and a half millennia, Hippocrates's famous first aphorism remains as true as it ever was: "Life is short, and the Art is long; the occasion fleeting; experience delusive; judgment difficult".

Horad said that he crossed paths with Long on occasion but did not know him well.

He longed, on occasion, to break into song.

On Monday night, after a long delay occasioned by the screenwriters' strike in America, Bauer returns in a two-hour special, 24: Redemption, setting the scene for a fully fledged series that begins in January.

And he was clearly determined to show the orchestra and its audience that after a long absence occasioned by major spinal surgery he was back, feeling good, ready to work and — interpretively at least — at the top of his game.

Sherlock is returning at 9pm tonight for one-off Victorian special "The Abominable Bride", with lead actors Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman donning suave period suits and moustaches especially for the long-awaited occasion.

And that memory is false, since on the long-ago occasion the sky looked blue to you, not yellow; memory is not after all a reliable check on the sensory qualities.