Sentence examples for past long enough from inspiring English sources

He has often written affectionately about overbearing fathers, clinically depressed mothers and failure-bound children who can't break free from the past long enough to ruin families of their own.

I know you didn't even pause long enough to notice; you've never had much use for the past tense, New York, or for those who use it.

And it at least took users a second to scroll past them — just long enough to make them occasionally effective at implanting a brand or tempting a click.

Actually, Barnes hasn't stopped writing — she can't stop; she even composes poetry on her grocery lists — but she can't seem to get past her own egotism long enough to make her words matter to anyone else.

The Loafer managed to slip past the cordon for long enough to notice that the subject of the book itself was also missing, clearly too shy to appear other than in cardboard cut-out form.

It was a nod to his past, if three weeks ago is long enough to be regarded as the past.

In the past, most failed to work long enough or earn enough to qualify.

Galloway (now past 50) said, "forty-two yeare are long enough for a man to live".

If he stays around long enough in the past, can he take out Oswald and prevent the murder of Kennedy?

Another student mentioned that when his hair was still long enough to hang past his ears, he could wear small headphones for his MP3 player and listen nonstop.

Put another way, net domestic product shrinks more easily than in the past, and if the contractions last long enough, then a new definition of recession may emerge.