Sentence examples for long ripe from inspiring English sources

Long ripe for regeneration, developers have been wary of making a move in this surprisingly cut-off quarter of the capital despite the opportunity to build shops, offices, hotels, places of entertainment and up to 16,000 homes here – until the arrival, or solid promise, of a Tube line.

Some CNN.com headlines have long been ripe for self-parody.

Chongming, relatively poor and undeveloped compared with the neighbouring city, has long looked ripe for development into yet another expanse of factories and commuter towns.

He had not been discharged as unfit for service; no, we whispered, "he has long been ripe for the concentration camp".

Because of their airy nature, superstring theory and quantum gravity, the fields in which the brothers are dabbling, have long been ripe for parody.

Although the NATO leaders have realized that the alliance has long been ripe for change, the doctrine of "flexible response," which is now the foundation for NATO, was a palliative of the doctrine of deterrence.

TOM AND RAY MAGLIOZZI, the brothers who've turned a call-in show about car trouble into a weekly highlight for National Public Radio listeners, have long seemed ripe for a television show.

The finish is long, featuring ripe stone fruit, with minty and licorice notes and a slight herbal tone.

Disney used to just rerelease their films on a decade-long cycle, ripe for capturing new generations; now they can spruce them up a little more with 3D conversion.

Hints of red or orange is a tell-tale sign that a pineapple was either allowed to mature long enough to become ripe.

Kansas (35-3) is a talented team — elegant in some ways, experienced, too — with a long pedigree and ripe for the next stage.