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Example Sentences
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But it doesn’t take long for the pullback to start.
From Barron's • Jun. 9, 2026
Labour MP Florence Eshalomi, who chairs the committee, said leaseholders had been "waiting for too long for successive governments to tackle the unfair leasehold system".
From BBC • May 26, 2026
With frame rates beyond what our eye can perceive, it did not take long for movies to appear nearly as realistic as life itself.
From Slate • May 25, 2026
Reading Mr. Perl-Rosenthal makes one long for a time when nationalist platitudes and uncritical patriotism were suspect—and when the Fourth of July was both a celebration and a challenge.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
We were strangers—though, as you can imagine, it did not take long for us to develop a feeling of comradeship, for we twenty were alone in a strange world.
From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien
