Sentence examples for then long years from inspiring English sources

The ceremony capped an extraordinary rise from humble origins in a provincial town in Gujarat, 600 miles from Delhi, through decades as an organiser with a hardline conservative revivalist organisation and then long years behind the scenes in the Bharatiya Janata party (BJP), which he now leads.

Then, as the long years of the war struggle past, you can see him change.

Certainly, its anaemic performance marks this recovery as out of the ordinary, but then it follows long years of extraordinary distress.

Then, after three long years, Crean achieved perhaps his biggest success when Cody Zeller, an Indiana Mr. Basketball in 2011, committed to play for the Hoosiers.

That it then took seven long years for Quick to frame a coherent sequence of events only confirmed the couple's suspicions: "For every sober person in this country, it must have been obvious that this guy was not trustworthy".

And then, after nine long years, the showrunners unforgivably bumbled the finale, presenting an emotionally tone-deaf conclusion that cast aside years of character development and treated the mother as a disposable afterthought.

After securing a patent on the final design, Hawker licensed his design to a manufacturing company, Power Sentry (which is now owned by Philips), and he then waited two long years for that design to become a reality.

If the cliché of 2000 remains true, that entertainment-addicted Americans will never let a tedious president into their living rooms for four long years, then Mr. Kerry, like Al Gore, is toast.

What then followed were eight long years of writing, contract negotiations, more than a few lessons in corporate restructuring, rewriting, switching publishers, and finally, in 1990, a first look at our brand new text.

He squeaked through then ruled for eight long years.

"But then there were all these long years when nobody else seemed to pay attention at all.