Sentence examples for stood long enough from inspiring English sources

His enmity is palpable but he stood long enough for her to expose five frames.

The towers stood long enough that thousands of office workers were able to escape.

Backers had hoped that the law would have stood long enough to be tested in the state's highest court.

With simmering hostility, he stood long enough for Jane to expose five frames – the middle one is one of her most recognisable portraits and the best portrait of the playwright.

If you stood long enough on Andrassy Street, the wide boulevard bisecting the city, and peered through the midday haze of exhaust from old Trabants and Ladas, you could sense the city's past greatness.

On September 11th, each building took the impact of a 767 (which is nearly twenty per cent heavier than a 707) and stood long enough to allow most of the people below the crash sites — the ninety-fourth floor to the ninety-ninth floor in the north tower, and the seventy-eighth floor to the eighty-fourth floor in the south tower — to escape.

In fact, every domestic dwelling that stands long enough will be a crime scene one day.

The question is whether they can stand long enough to suppress an insurgency whose size, power, funds and appeal are still shrouded in mystery.

"We want buildings that stand long enough for people to get out and stairs that allow people to get out quickly," Mr. Lewis said.

But the Czech head of state is hard to predict and could still grand-stand long enough during next week's summit for the nominations to have to be delayed until November.

Mr. Shopenn, 67, an architectural photographer and avid snowboarder, had been in such pain from arthritis that he could not stand long enough to make coffee, let alone work.