Sentence examples for rather long for from inspiring English sources

Xerxes, who had by then been away from Asia rather long for a king with such widespread responsibilities, returned home and left Mardonius in charge of further operations.

NewTeeVee is quite scathing about the festival, firstly because it claims to be promoting short films but entries are accepted up to 45 minutes - that's getting rather long for a short film.

But, unfortunately, it means the book ends with a faintly unsatisfactory chapter galloping through everything that has happened over the intervening four years, which only makes one rather long for the vivid contemporaneous feel of the journal.

But the whole programme was too bitty - and rather long - for the opening concert of a major festival.

The long RInChIKey does not, however, have a fixed length and it may be rather long for a reaction containing many components.

The more I hear people longing for their former dictators, the more I realize it is not because they do not have the capacity for democracy, but rather long for stability and feel discomfort at the sight of change.

May assured Sheila that there was plenty of hot water because the immersion heater had been on all evening, but although Sheila rather longed for a bath, she didn't want to keep everybody waiting for the bathroom.

Several years later, she explains to her sister Debo, now the Duchess of Devonshire, that she doesn't accept invitations "to join committees against the wicked toys they've got [in the U.S.]," not when she knows she "should have rather longed for a model H-bomb if they had been about when we were little".

The players left the ice with smiles on their faces despite the rather long practice for this time of year.

It took a rather long time for everyone to get served; Sharon Jones, the first waiter I had officially hired, kept refilling everyone's wine glasses so they wouldn't leave.

Moreover, it calls for a rather long term approach for meeting present but also future generations' needs.