It was good for a laugh but he played here too long, eight years, to forget the way in, or how desperately he wished to get out.
A budget window that is too short permits the shifting of costs beyond the window's endpoint, while a window that is too long includes years for which current legislation is essentially meaningless, and allows the shifting of fiscal burdens to those whom budget rules are supposed to protect.
Like many people I tend to get bored if I stay in one place too long – five years is the longest I've lived anywhere since high school.
For too many long years we have advocated that America turn from religion, ban these foreign practices and finally achieve our true destiny, becoming a completely secular nation.
But there is another way of exiting the scene: living too long, passing the years unproductively, falling silent.
Another paper says Tendulkar is not the only legend of the game, but others did not have to withstand the constant scrutiny of of fans, and that too for 24 long years.
If I have been sitting waiting for half an hour and have finished reading the magazines.... Yes, half an hour really is too long (Woman, 65 years old).
That's 170 years too long, and at least as many years too late.
"Five years now Five years too long But, lovely one, rest in peace Our memories too are long" Your Loving Family.
But whatever moments onstage still linger in our memory, Jay Gatsby himself would advise against dwelling too long on the year that was.
