Sentence examples for unexpectedly long time from inspiring English sources

It had taken the driver an unexpectedly long time to collect passengers at eight locations around Brooklyn, and so the committee members arrived at Giando at 11 05 p.m., less than an hour before the prom was to end.

The OKB had originally planned to build ten in the first quarter of 1943, but the manufacturer's trials took an unexpectedly long time to complete and were not finished until the first quarter of 1944.

Importantly, the ability to activate the transcription factor (steroid receptor) using light provided a precise temporal start to measure the time needed for the gene to respond, an unexpectedly long time (2 hr).

In 1952, Dr. Pais proposed a concept called "associated production" to explain why certain particles lived for unexpectedly long times before decaying.

Under certain experimental conditions distorted peak shapes and even peak doubling for single variant injections were obtained, in addition to unexpectedly long retention times.

And sometimes they paid the city unexpectedly long visits, like the time their daughter, Quintana, came down with chicken pox while staying with her grandmother.

Winterson tells me that the intense upset she felt on discovering the unexpectedly long and profoundly intimate time she spent with her birth mother has been clearly, if unconsciously, expressed in many of her novels.

Several very high latitude substorms were observed in this duration when the solar activity remained unexpectedly low for a long time.

For someone who, as Talking Heads almost said, stopped making sense a long time ago, Morissette was unexpectedly lucid, and the angst significantly reduced.

It was an unexpectedly spectacular ending to a game that for a long time had threatened to turn into a blow-out.

An unexpectedly long stabilization period − more than 150 h of time-on-stream − was found to be an important feature of the catalyst.