Sentence examples for so long compared from inspiring English sources

Why are school summer holidays so long compared with other breaks?

Because human maturation takes so long compared to other species, social pain became a way to encourage us to stay socially attached to promote survival.

Hilly, a professor of anthropology at the University of New Mexico, has spent years studying hunter-gatherer people in South America and Africa, trying to answer questions like: Why do children remain dependent for so long compared with other primates and mammals?

Yet because Rick's group have survived outside for so long, compared to those of the Alexandria community who have felt safe from the beginning, Deanna sees Rick and those of his group as invaluable.

The Obama administration has manoeuvred itself into a corner where President Assad, the man John Kerry not so long ago compared to Adolf Hitler, now presides over the least extremist fraction amongst mass-murdering criminals and terrorists.

Apple was personally selling AT&T Next and Verizon Edge plans, which slowed the process significantly, and may have been part of the reason why our wait was so long as compared to previous years.

At last, SpA - so long the Cinderella compared with rheumatoid arthritis - has entered the limelight with many patients previously untreated or unrecognised seeking the new magic bullet.

But it appears that so long as you compare like to like — examining students with similar grades and test scores who happened to choose different routes — the ones who opt for less-prestigious schools fare just fine.

For so long you're comparing everything to this one thing, "Why don't I feel like this?" At some point, you realize everything is different.

A battle royale over the concession speech dragged on for days, so long that one aide compared it to the cold war-era Strategic Arms Limitation talks.

The results should be equally reliable so long as researchers accurately compare outcomes.