Example sentences of "after [adv] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was strange walking out after so long . |
| 2 | In fact Major Wiseman 's letter preserves an inaccurate memory — not surprising after so long — of the actual circumstances , for it conflates the events of twelve days and relates them as if they had happened on the same night . |
| 3 | She had forgotten how nice it was , after so long an interval . |
| 4 | That it seems pointless not to remain friends after so long , and ask him to have a meal with you . |
| 5 | After so long a period of remorseless manufacturing decline in the UK , to hope for a reversal might seem wishful thinking . |
| 6 | After so long a period of remorseless manufacturing decline in the UK , to hope for a reversal might seem wishful thinking . |
| 7 | Those years apart did something to us as a family — it was hard to adjust to one another again after so long apart . |
| 8 | It was good to see South Africa back in the international fold after so long . |
| 9 | There were no longer any grave differences of principle between him and the king , but there must have been many routine tasks after so long an absence , and these seem to have occupied the greater part of 1107 . |
| 10 | Drachenfels enjoyed watching his magically created puppets humiliate and denigrate his ‘ guests ’ , an immature pleasure but a pleasure nonetheless , and the puppets are very eager to put on another performance after so long inactive . |
| 11 | I could n't leave her , not after so long finding her . |
| 12 | It helped , but left me anxious as to whether we could still really know each other after so long apart . |
| 13 | The feel of the sun on our skins again was wonderful and even with our eyes covered the brightness of the sunlight was dazzling after so long in the gloom . |
| 14 | It 's a great pleasure seeing their friends again like this after so long . |
| 15 | After so long eating recycled meals on Belial , her salivary glands sprang into life with sharp little pangs of anticipation . |
| 16 | Definitely not the surprise and pleasure he would have shown at seeing Cameron again after so long . |
| 17 | He thought again about how the changes which had occurred in the Southern Capital , to which Surere had now been exposed after so long away , might have affected such an inflexible heart . |
| 18 | I mean , after so long a time . |
| 19 | And I had a funny thought — I suppose part of the excitement of getting out again after so long , all that oxygen — ; here , this is silly , you 'll laugh at this . |
| 20 | Seeing them after so long , after all that had happened to her , it was as though they were strangers . |
| 21 | Difficult though it was to come back after so long a lay-off , she was the runner-up in the Yorkshire Championship both in 1950 and in 1953 . |
| 22 | Both of them ( for different reasons ) were anxious about seeming to exclude the rest of the household , each of them still ( even after so long ) unsure of her claims on the other . |
| 23 | But the last thing she had expected was that John would take advantage of it , especially after so long an absence from her , and even more especially after the crisis they had endured and survived together these months past . |
| 24 | But do you seriously expect the same people to be there after so long ? |
| 25 | She heard his harsh breathing , the rough exclamations of his own excitement as he kissed her deeper , his hands moving up her spine , thrusting into her thick black hair , blind passion exploding between them after so long . |
| 26 | Obviously now he 's got his life to put back together which will be very hard after so long . |
| 27 | Incidentally , though Walker is held to be still more than a touch rusty after so long away from rugby — inclined , for instance , to carry the ball under the wrong arm — the rapidity with which he has come into cap contention ought to be food for thought for our own Jamie Henderson . |
| 28 | ‘ He has shown a lot of guts to get back after so long . |
| 29 | Yeah and they have them there see and like after so long they come out and sell them . |
| 30 | And then all of a sudden after so long you saw a new Alf . |