Sentence examples for rather a long time from inspiring English sources
Mr Yentob's view on MGN's apology: Two years seems rather a long time in owning up.
Did he think the inquiry had gone on for rather a long time?
No doubt it does, but then it has been saying that for rather a long time.
"It happened that feeling ready took rather a long time," he recalled wryly.
"I'm not a proper producer," she says, "I'm just an actress who has been resting for rather a long time.
'Several times,' I said, 'but all rather a long time ago.' 'Oh,' she said, 'anything I might have seen you in?' 'I suspect not,' I said.
He tends to stay at Barnet for a good time rather than a long time but, even if there is little expectation that his fifth spell in charge will extend beyond eight games in any case, he faces a colossal task to go out with his customary bang.
The rationale given to the victims: better to get something now rather than wait a long time for an uncertain result.
Hundreds of thousands of phone calls to the 101 non-emergency police number have been going unanswered annually, suggesting that callers hang up rather than wait a long time for an answer.
McClure adds that the program will be somewhat more structured than YC and other incubators and that it will emphasize getting the companies to release and iterate their products quickly, rather than spending a long time on the development cycle.
But his position will be stronger as he can claim to be coming from an "independent" position rather than as a long time flunky of the president.
