Sentence examples for so long afterwards from inspiring English sources
It is hard, so long afterwards, and when European integration is taken so much for granted, to recapture the excitement that surrounded this pioneering enterprise.
The series blew through whatever scant promise it had in the space of a single series, only to limp on so doggedly for so long afterwards that nobody can realistically ever want to see it again.
Dickens himself had written about Christmas before 1843 – there are references to it in Sketches by Boz and The Pickwick Papers – and he continued to do so long afterwards.
But not so long afterwards Marie, with her eye patch, was sitting in the garden bar of the American Colony hotel in Jerusalem, reporting back, over a few drinks, about the time she spent in hospital with post-traumatic stress disorder, and the way that sailing had helped her recover enough to get back to work.
So, not long afterwards, did another of the three old men of the village, Captain Budgett, squire and ex master of foxhounds.
"It is the type of game that is only funny for so long," he said, "and afterwards quickly starts to seem stupid and pointless".
No one has given the same rapturous reception to one of Pelecanos's novels, for example, though he was sanguine about it all afterwards – "So long as people read the books, I'm into it," he said.
"Having chased so hard for it, not long afterwards I came to the conclusion that perhaps it was time to face a new challenge and really test myself before I have to hang my boots up".
Diego and Rogelio said working as third-shift janitors at the Farm Fresh Foods chicken processing plant meant breathing bleach fumes for so long they couldn't sleep afterwards for the headaches.
Having said that, chucking PSB into a big pan of boiling salted water for three or four minutes (two is enough if it's literally just picked) is fine, so long as you drain it well afterwards and give it a chance to "steam off" before serving.
Just so long as they do not try driving afterwards.
