Sentence examples for stop for long from inspiring English sources

"Tsunami waves can seem to stop for long periods and then begin again".

The subway dig, part of a $30 million renovation of the entire stretch of Fulton Street from Water Street to Church Street could not stop for long.

Having seen what the Stalinist madman Nicolae Ceausescu did to eradicate any semblance of beauty in Bucharest, we didn't stop for long.

Scientific traditions hold little dominion over them; they never stop for long at the subtleties of a school and they are not easily fobbed off with big words; they penetrate as much as they can to the principal parts of the subject that occupies them, and they like to expose them in vulgar language.

Similarly, self-injury is very cyclical and people may stop for long periods of time and then start again.

Do not stop for long in between sets.

But the opposition prisons spokesman, Paul Papalia, said the justification of new, nervous prisoners did not make sense at Boronia, which is intended as a last stop for long-term prisoners to prepare them for release into the outside world.

The rain hardly stops for long.

It doesn't really seem likely, if only because it is difficult for those who know her best to imagine her stopping for long.

City officials expressed confidence that the program would not be stopped for long, noting that Justice Huff had not ruled on the merits of the case.

Swapping the home counties for upstate New York, the film follows Emily Blunt as she is whisked from NYC's ritzier burbs on a service that never trundles, still less stops for long unexplained minutes.