Sentence examples for long time given from inspiring English sources
"We have for a long time given tacit approval for drone strikes.
Sinking those wells may take a long time, given the pace so far.
The questions kept coming for at least 40 minutes, a long time given that the highway was normally patrolled by government soldiers.
Though a largely Catholic country, France has for a long time given students confidentiality when they sought advice on contraception, and condoms have been available in French schools for years.
Ezra Klein, unsurprisingly, has been doing a yeoman's job of analyzing Max Baucus' health-care proposal, and if you want to understand what, exactly, the Baucus bill will do, you could not do better than to spend some time (well, a long time, given how many posts he put up yesterday) reading his recent output.
Given the speed with which 401(k) accounts have been replacing pensions, workers can only hope that their employers have assembled a low-cost diversified portfolio that will keep earning money over time — perhaps a long time, given the number of people living to their 90s and beyond.
He talked to me a long time, giving me suggestions.
People who have been watching the company for a long time give similar answers.
The stock should be rich and full-bodied, and simmering for such a long time gives it (and any soup you make with it) plenty of taste.
She says to me: "Being on the sidelines for a long time gave me the opportunity to strengthen myself to the idea of what fame is.
And almost certainly, Google's willingness to push boundaries and fund projects for an unusually long time gives us the closest analogue to a Bell Labs of the modern era.
