Sentence examples for rarely long enough from inspiring English sources

In fact, good films are rarely long enough, and I'd find it almost impossible to shave a single second off, say, the 212-minute long Ben-Hur.

We also observed the use of assistive devices among pedestrians, including canes, walkers, and wheelchairs; crosswalk signals were rarely long enough to allow these pedestrians to safely cross the street before vehicle traffic again had the right of way.

Coordinated chains of co-evolutionary changes are possible [ 62], but are rarely long enough to span whole subunits.

An important insight from our in vitro and modeling studies is that a nondegraded client (i.e., CD4-M1) is nevertheless ubiquitinated, but that the ubiquitin chains are rapidly counteracted and rarely long enough to trigger degradation.

Unfortunately, Szwed rarely pauses long enough to reflect (to "meditate," as it were) on Davis's torments.

While characters rarely appear long enough to be fleshed out, those she meets add texture to what might otherwise be a litany of challenges.

Kendall would usually manage to give his clubs an early lift, but rarely stayed long enough to repeat the sort of success he had seen at Everton.

Players, he laments, are still vulnerable to the punitive effects of the crisis – late payments in particular – and are rarely around long enough to really want to make a difference.

But it self-plagiarizes from "Palmer Eldritch" the idea of a false messiah propagated through technology, and as it races against an unseen stopwatch to tell its story, it rarely pauses long enough to make any lasting observations.

Their concern is that prolonged use of the internet with its smorgasbord of tantalising titbits of information is producing a generation of magpie minds, as users hop from one bright trinket to another, rarely focussing long enough on any one topic to comprehend it thoroughly.

But from the moment that Ms. Schaffel emerges from darkness to open the show with a nod to Bronte's polite first person -- "My story begins, gentle audience, a long age ago" -- the storytelling is fitful and hurried, a pace that accommodates a soundtrack but rarely pauses long enough for an actual song.