so long

Example Sentences

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Now as more than 6 million fans prepare to attend the World Cup, the country that spent so long dismissing the sport finds itself proudly at the center of the soccer universe.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

"Why would hunters stop using a site that had worked for so long?"

From Science Daily • Jun. 11, 2026

It was “traumatizing, seeing that stuff on display for so long and then seeing it come down,” said James Ranger, a veteran hotel tour guide and Mission Inn Foundation docent.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026

I know everyone will do that when they come to this tournament, but it is just different when you have not been there for so long.

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026

The pattern was interlocking diamonds and had been there for all of Zeke’s life, so long he never even really noticed it anymore.

From "Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody" by Patrick Ness