Sentence examples for painfully long time from inspiring English sources

But it is taking a painfully long time.

"Then he pulled me into his belly and held me tight for a painfully long time.

"It was a painfully long time coming, but it's the right result," she wrote in an e-mail.

Yet the silence from Washington after his visit to Okinawa was ominous, speaking eloquently of an apparent lack of faith in Mr Hatoyama himself.His explanation, as far as it went, made sense, though it took a painfully long time to reach.

But I felt I needed to do something because the painfully long time it is taking to recover from banging my head when I fell off the ladder means there are regular periods when I am left utterly drained by simple tasks and barely able to get out of bed – and that exhaustion can make me really down.

Recovering from the ladder incident had taken a "painfully long time", he wrote, adding that there are "regular periods when I am left utterly drained by simple tasks and barely able to get out of bed – and that exhaustion can make me really down".

That is, if you can be bothered waiting through the painfully long loading time.

We've all played this game before while trying to cope with painfully long waiting times: "I won't look at the clock until half-an-hour has passed," only to finally look at the clock and see with dismay that only five minutes have passed.

Shy guys will stay in the friend zone for painfully long periods of time, agonizing about the pros and cons of asking you out.

Reloading a magazine under stress with loose rounds can take a painfully long amount of time, or be nearly impossible to complete due to the decreased motor skills caused by the effects of large amounts of adrenaline).

The fear is that, in China, that time could be painfully long.