Sentence examples for was so lengthy from inspiring English sources
adverb
To the (explicitly stated) extent that.
- It was so hot outside that all the plants died.
Experts are uncertain why this year's algae bloom was so lengthy and toxic.
The process was so lengthy, he explained, because to make it look believable, "we actually model the individual strands of hair".
The score was so lengthy that it had to be released in 1959 on three LP records, although a one-LP version with Carlo Savina conducting the Symphony Orchestra of Rome was also issued.
Possibly, Mr. Bailey says, but the process would be so lengthy that it would hardly be worth it.
We knew there would be a hubbub but we didn't know that it would be so lengthy.
Microsoft has vowed that there will never again be so lengthy a gap between versions of its operating system.
"You cannot make a film for more than 60 million kroners (about $11 million or £6.9 million) that is so lengthy.
These arch juxtapositions are so lengthy and distracting that the baffled reader may forget this is a book about the Doors.
But the list of guest participants is so lengthy, including at least three former players — Pat Meares, Geoff Jenkins and Hideo Nomo — that it is not hard to find one willing to speak.
The whole process is so lengthy that more genuine villains now get off by statute of limitation; almost all sentences of less than two years are automatically suspended.
Because the waiting list is so lengthy, some fans could wait at least a decade for the chance to buy the tickets.
