so long

“I journeyed so long in my mind, but it was so dark in this foreign place,” he intones, in Fon, the nearly eradicated language of Dahomey, “that I lost myself in my dreams.”

And by the fourth time, a year after the first, she had been fleeing Israeli bombs for so long that nowhere in Lebanon felt safe.

"After collecting and owning them for so long, I would like to know where they have gone and not leave them for my wife to deal with should I not be around."

Miss Hudson said this claim was "absolutely ludicrous", and if the payments took so long to go through, it was because the app did not process them straight away.

Is there a danger staying at one club for so long could hamper his chances of landing a job elsewhere?