Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] so long " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had all happened so long ago , and she had found a successful career for herself in radio anyway , despite Luke 's having caused her to be dismissed from that first job back in South Africa and the subsequent need to abandon her Communications course , and as he himself had pointed out — oh , as she herself had always known deep down , hence her long-ago guilt — she had chosen to leave Johannesburg when her father was dying . |
| 2 | ‘ I had n't realised it had all taken so long — it was lunchtime when the alarm went off . ’ |
| 3 | Bureaucracy , which was so brilliantly analysed so long ago by Max Weber ( 1922 ) , is based on legal-style directives and rational — though slow — procedures . |
| 4 | The dominant response may at present be a favourable one , but this is only maintained so long as it implicitly accepted that functions are being successfully and rationally fulfilled . |
| 5 | Seeing that the independents would be slowly strangled so long as they relied exclusively upon the British circuits , he sought to establish connections to Hollywood . |
| 6 | Green had already spent so long on his maps , carefully recording every field and alley-way , that Laurent could see it was going to be a long task , and also that the end result would be large and quite expensive . |
| 7 | I have never spent so long on a single project . |
| 8 | She had never spent so long taking her clothes off , but when she finally stood alluringly naked she saw that he was still looking at her mouth . |