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Example sentences for: long

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As long as there are still U.S. workers paying payroll taxes (and if there aren't, we'll have many far bigger problems), these can cover at least partial benefits.
Here is a serious thing for a moment: The world is full of women who can't get their husbands to pay child support, and it won't be long before even the ones on food stamps will be attacked by their ex-husbands' lawyers for being as greedy as Patricia Duff.
Across the river are the Convento de Santa Clara-a-Velha (Old St. Claire Convent, long under extensive restoration aimed at rescuing it from the river), where the lifeless Inês de Castro was crowned (see page 45), and the newer, uphill Convento de Santa Clara-a-Nova (New Convent), where the silver tomb of Isabel, the sainted queen of Dom Dinis, is located.
And do you long for a political hero who will dare to close the budget gap, even if it means raising taxes?
My own view is that the Friedman plan fails even by its own strictly economic criteria, because it creates an incentive for people to avoid high-accident areas and take inefficiently long routes to wherever they're going--or to cancel their trips entirely.