The cooks had prepared one of the best meals we'd had in a long time, and on Montero's orders had baked enough bread to last the day.

This time he delayed so long that some of the engages shouted frantically, but they held their fire.

It took him a long time to compose himself.

She studied it for a long time.

Tom had been laying for Aaron McBride for a long time, just waiting to catch him out of line.

Jury, judge and executioner were riding the range in the form of a single unknown figure that could materialize anywhere, at any time, to dispense an ancient brand of justice the men of the new West had believed long outdated.

Yet long before the scheduled time for return, Donovan would be watching for every speck in the sky.

A long time.

My new Aunt was perhaps three or four years older than I and it had been a long time since I had seen as gorgeous a woman who oozed sex.

His long nose wiggled at the smells of frizzling bacon and heating java, but the fire was low, and he wanted to waste no time.

It took a long time before the British tipped the balance.

He had been conning the freights for a long, long time now.

It had been a very long time that had no form and no end.

These polar concerns ( imitation vs. formalism ) reflect a philosophical and religious situation which has been developing over a long period of time.

But that was a long time ago.

He waited a long time.

It has been a long time since he has seen any campaign money, and when the proposition is laid down to him as the friends of Mr. Hearst are laying it down these days he is quite likely to get aboard the Hearst bandwagon ''.

It took Pike a long time to realize what Woodruff had done, and it had a profound effect on him.

`` Baby, I saw a lot of old friends I hadn't seen in a long time '', he told me, his eyes bright.

Later, rising ninety, he was beset by publishers for the story of his life and miracles, as he put it, but, calling himself the Needy Knife-grinder, he had spent his time writing short articles and long letters and could not get even a small popular book done.

He was, of course, in the House for a very long time.

American taxpayers have been impressed by the surpluses for a long, long time.

Another optimistic sign, this one from the Labor Department, was the report that the long rise in unemployment compensation payments `` was interrupted for the first time in the week ending Feb. 25 ''.

To Tilghman the incident was just one of a long list of hair-raising, smash-'em-down adventures on the side of the law which started in 1872 when he was only eighteen years old, and did not end till fifty years later when he was shot dead after warning a drunk to be quiet.

In game 19, Korchnoi succeeded in winning a long endgame, then notched a speedy victory after a blunder by Karpov two games later.

A. ramidus had a more primitive walking ability than later hominids, and could not walk or run for long distances.

Saint Alcuin had a long career as a teacher and scholar, first at the school at York, founded in AD 627 ( now known as St Peter's School, York ) and later as Charlemagne's leading advisor on ecclesiastical and educational matters.

Other angels came to be conventionally depicted in long robes, and in the later Middle Ages they often wear the vestments of a deacon, a cope over a dalmatic, especially Gabriel in Annunciation scenes-for example The Annunciation by Jan van Eyck.

Joseph II granted Salieri permission to take a year long leave of absence ( later extended ) thus enabling him to write for La Scala and to undertake a tour of Italy.

A long held hypothesis suggests the possibility that alien big cats at large in the United Kingdom could have been imported as part of private collections or zoos, later escaped or set free.

It was long thought that Saluki type sighthounds were originally brought to Russia from Byzantium in the South about the 9th and 10th centuries and again later by the Mongol invaders from the East.

In primary school his head was shaven to prevent head lice, a serious threat back then, which he cited among reasons for his later signature long hair.

The discovery of the chemical elements has a long history from the days of alchemy and culminating in the creation of the periodic table of the chemical elements by Dmitri Mendeleev ( 1834 – 1907 ) and later discoveries of some synthetic elements.

The Chinese had long been a source of aid and apparently wished to maintain contact with Comoros to counterbalance Indian and Soviet ( later Russian ) influence in the Indian Ocean.

" I told him he was welcome to it ," Tombaugh later remembered, " though he's got to go one long, cold trip.

This ratio is higher with more conservative ( i. e., earlier, soon after BDC ) intake cam timing, and lower with more radical ( i. e., later, long after BDC ) intake cam timing, but always lower than the static or " nominal " compression ratio.

Months later on April 27, 1977, Charles Spinky Alston died after a long bout with cancer.

The oldest surviving gun, found in Acheng, Heilongjiang, and dated to no later than 1290, is 34 cm long with a muzzle bore diameter of and weighs 3. 5 kg.

These passage graves are usually larger than the Shetland type and are round or have funnel-shaped forecourts, although a few are long cairns-perhaps originally circular but with later tails added.

King Artgal of Alt Clut did not long survive these events, being killed " at the instigation " of Causantín son of Cináed two years later.

Coanacoch did not have long to enjoy his reprieve — Ixtlilxóchitl wrote that he died a few days later.

Diana ( pronounced with long ' ī ' and ' ā ') is an adjectival form developed from an ancient * divios, corresponding to later ' divus ', ' dius ', as in Dius Fidius, Dea Dia and in the neuter form dium meaning the sky.

Resolution of these scholarly questions remained very difficult so long as no complete version of the Diatessaron in Syriac or Greek had been recovered ; while the medieval translations that had survived — in Arabic and Latin — both relied on texts that had been heavily corrected to conform better with later canonical versions of the separate Gospel texts.

This small difference in the Sun's position against the stars causes any particular spot on the Earth's surface to catch up with ( and stand directly north or south of ) the Sun about 4 minutes later each day than it would if the Earth did not orbit ; our day is 24 hours long rather than the approximately 23 hour 56 minute sidereal day.

In the East Ionic dialect, however, the sound / h / disappeared by the sixth century BC, and the letter was re-used initially to represent a development of a long vowel, which later merged in East Ionic with instead.

He later turned cynical concerning sexual matters, expressed not only in his behavior and his art, but in his writings as well, an example being a long poem called The City of Free Love.

A year later he took the reins on a solo basis and was rewarded with immediate success ( at least in terms of expectations at the time which, after so long in the wilderness, were somewhat modest ).