Anyway, I wasn't down long enough to matter.

The man, Tom said, explained that it was not only too long and detailed but that as it stood it wasn't the sort of thing the public wanted.

She'd be smart about it, get him to give it to her in little bills so's nobody would suspect -- maybe couldn't get it until Monday account of that, the banks -- But that wasn't really long to wait.

if Mike had had a finger in it, he had gotten away with it -- and what happened to supreme bishops worried Jubal not at all as long as he wasn't bothered.

It wasn't long before the larger media players got involved.

" According to Spink, " It wasn't long before Chicago writers discovered they had a ' character ' on the bench.

The fish bit well, and it wasn't long before Gunnhild had a week's supply of fish for her pot.

Sergey told Malseed, " I've known for a long time that my father wasn't able to pursue the career he wanted ", but Sergey only picked up the details years later after they had settled in the United States.

Walt Disney had long wanted to make a film based on the Uncle Remus storybook, but it wasn't until the mid-1940s that he had found a way to give the stories an adequate film equivalent, in scope and fidelity.

" It wasn't too long until they integrated the teachers and principals.

Its purpose of its construction was to fend off would-be invaders, but it wasn't long until the city was successfully invaded by Archduke Albert of Austria on April 24, 1596.

It wasn't long after this that Sperry and Burroughs merged to form Unisys in 1986.

It wasn't long before X-rays were used in various applications, from helping to fit shoes to the medical uses of today.

He talked of how the greatest enemy he and his crew faced during their long sea voyages wasn't the Japanese but boredom.

While there had been earlier schemes to develop a town on Key Biscayne, it wasn't until the opening of the four-mile ( 6 km ) long Rickenbacker Causeway from Miami to Virginia Key and on to Key Biscayne in 1947 that the island was opened up to large scale residential development.

The Halifax area was again abandoned until after the Civil War, but it wasn't long till adventurous settlers seeking a better life arrived to take advantage of the natural beauty and enticing climate.

It wasn't long before the city became known as a resort destination.

Claims were made on " Bottineau Prairie " and it wasn't long before other brave and adventurous men came to the area.

The bank wasn't around long before it was robbed in 1912.

Now we had to make the best possible album and it wasn't important who did what, as long as the result was the very best we could achieve.

It wasn't long until the small village began to prosper.

The shops were highly successful and it wasn't too long before Winchell expanded his operation throughout California.

For a while the band existed as a semi-pro outfit playing the college circuit, but it wasn't long before they acquired a manager, went full time, and found themselves booked on the working men's club circuit mainly in the north of England.

After the divestiture of Pacific Bell ( California ) and AT & T in 1984, it wasn't long before independent stores selling telephones opened up.

But even before he started across the oiled road to his Plymouth, parked in the lot under the cypress trees across from the station, he knew that he wasn't going home.

In 1932, a time when Capoeira repression wasn't as strong as before, Mestre Bimba, a strong fighter both in legal and illegal fights, founded in Salvador the first ever Capoeira school.

Although he had spiritual interests before that time, he said, " I didn't convert to Catholicism, because I wasn't anything to convert from.

It wasn't until the celebratory banquet that evening that Hurst realised he had scored a hat-trick, assuming that the final whistle had been blown before he'd struck the ball into the net for his third goal.

With less than a week to go before the start of the season, there wasn't nearly enough time to order new uniforms.

The circular time contradiction can suppose anything concerning God, such as the creation of life, meaning before God created life, he wasn't alive.

This wasn't written about Kenneth Williams per se, but, after I'd composed it and was playing it through, I realised the lyric sort of summed Kenneth up − I think I'd recently been reading his published Diaries and I had ended the song with the same words Williams had written in his diary before he died.

But it wasn't enough ; after a fallout between Ernst and Piet Dekker ( with the latter sent packing ) the band seriously considered splitting up, but not before finishing their spring tour.

He co-wrote Ripping Yarns with Palin, and wrote the screenplay for Labyrinth ( 1986 ), although his draft went through several rewrites and several other writers before being filmed ; much of the finished film wasn't written by Jones at all.

Though the " blooper " was made a year before Gone with the Wind infamously used the word " damn ", due to the Motion Picture Production Code the " blooper " wasn't shown publicly until the aforementioned special, which by that point FCC regulations softened enough for the word " bitch " to be used on TV.

Even if Tom wasn't armed with a revolver, Virgil Earp testified Tom attempted to grab a rifle from the scabbard on the horse in front of him before he was killed.

Production nearly ended before it began when Pacino's lawyers told Coppola that he had grave misgivings with the script and wasn't coming.

Thus it is incorrect to pretend black basketball wasn't " permitted " in Jasper or other Southern Indiana towns before the 1950s.

He formulated the concept of the dynamo at least 6 years before Siemens and Wheatstone but didn't patent it as he thought he wasn't the first to realize this.

I've never said that I was gay and I've never said that I wasn't ... what I'm trying to say is that I am a person before I am anything else ...

He pitched and played some first base when he wasn't on the mound, before making another brief comeback in 1993 with the Baltimore Orioles.

It wasn't an easy start for the community who had had to move five times before settling at New Byland, near Coxwold in 1177.