Sentence examples for so long did from inspiring English sources

Only then, after holding it together for so long, did she crumble.

However, we musn't forget that our politicians, who for so long did so little, are making progress on climate change.

The police cannot explain what is perhaps the greatest mystery about the affair: Why, if he had successfully dropped out of sight for so long, did John Darwin suddenly come back?

So long did she balance — perfectly still, without upper-body rocking to maintain equilibrium — that after her third suitor had walked away, the fourth didn't bother to come forward.

Microsoft, deeply set in the culture of backwards compatibility that served it so well for so long did the usual thing, it added a tablet layer on top of Windows 7. The result didn't take the market by storm and appears to have caused the exit of Steve Sinofsky, the Windows czar now happily ensconced at Harvard Business School and a Board Partner with the Andreessen Horowitz venture firm.

When I was a kid, the fact that he died so young, after living with the shadow of death for so long, didn't really touch me.

"The notes hold for so long do you make meditative whale music, playing really slow notes.

(The stadium violence and hooliganism that scarred British soccer for so long do seem blissfully gone).

But the fact that things have gone so well for so long does not mean there are no risks.

Fan reaction was feverish – so why, after so long, does Aphex Twin, aka Richard D James, still hold such relevance?

Anyway, with the barn door having been opened for so long, does anyone really believe we can suddenly close it?