long enough

Her letter to her aunt was not long enough, so she padded it out with information about the weather.

DC and LA seem to send messages too, but I haven't spent long enough in either to say for sure what they are.

The grapes of the vine are often used to make sweet white wines or occasionally left on the vine long enough to produce ice wines.

As Harvey tells the Caped Crusader, "You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become a villain. "

There ! You see , Miss ? Even the wind wants you to stay outside long enough to try one of my apples .

A handful of researchers, however, think science will ultimately delay aging at least long enough to double life spans.

He had lived to the ripe old age of 26 -- long enough to have watched two civil wars and two invasions from his cage.

I postponed my departure long enough to pay my respects at Kendra's funeral, then left for what was now to be a solitary journey.

If your single for long enough, you become sort of a toy, a pet project for your coupled up friends.

He wasn't working for me. He was working for the bank, which wanted to know whether I might live long enough to pay off a 25-year mortgage.

Higgs bosons, if they exist, do not last long enough to show up directly in the subatomic debris of these collisions.

He lavished money and effort on education and health, rarely pausing long enough to see if the last lot had worked.

We've traded there long enough to make him trust us for a week or two.

If you're single for long enough, you become sort of a toy, a pet project for your coupled up friends.

Will had ridden with the knight long enough to understand that it was best not to interrupt him when he looked like that.

The rubber rope tied to the jumper's ankle is long enough to ensure that he or she will enjoy the "free fall" in the air for a few seconds.

But her hesitation was only for an instant, though long enough to display a scarlet letter on her breast.

A similar fate awaits any population exposed long enough to a new flu strain to which it has no immunity, experts believe.

Mike asked me how long he would be in the United Kingdom for and I told him, probably long enough to get a British passport.

"well, " he said, " I should think a man's legs ought to be long enough to reach from his body to the ground. "

They had held on to life long enough to discharge their duty; too late, the enemy had learned their mistake.

A good sermon should be like a woman's skirt: short enough to rouse the interest, but long enough to cover the essentials.

However in this case the customer had the information elsewhere and the disk would not spin up long enough for a backup to be made.

I may not live long enough to see the crisis, but my soul is going to come back and haunt you.

Hodge acknowledges the debate just long enough to dismiss the idea that there might be any benefit at all.

After he judged that his right hand had been in the water long enough he took it out and looked at it.

It is very easy to read, and it is not even long enough to be a proper novel, but carries a lot of meaning.

One of the most important characteristics of a computer is its capability of storing information in its memory long enough to process it.

When he reached the weirwood tree, he found a fallen branch just long enough to use as a crutch.

But the rich and beautiful woman stayed behind just long enough to collect as much of her jewelry as she could carry.

The outage was long enough for me to have to set up a Yahoo Mail account to send an urgent email.

When nested with sand between them, they last just long enough to let the titanium cool into beads of solid metal.

She stopped cutting long enough to lift her arm to her eyes in a tragic pose. Then she resumed, more tearfully.

If I find the rat fink who informed on me, he won't live long enough to do it again.

That will require a stable workforce, which stays with its employers long enough to be worth investing in.

Oh, yes, but I wish I could have stayed awake long enough to see the whole thing.

Place the baby on the mother's abdomen or, if the cord is long enough (don't tug at it), on her chest.

After-dinner speeches should be like ladies' skirts - long enough to cover the subject, and short enough to be interesting.

When she approached the gate of the noisy town, Lizette shut her eyes and took off the hat long enough to put on the scarf.

Two years ago that specialist said he'd been tracking me long enough that I'd better start on these eye drops. I officially had glaucoma.

This new phone is the size and shape of a billfold. You unfold it to use it, making it long enough to reach from your ear to your mouth.

During these discussions, I ask the participants, "What has caused you to stay long enough to become a manager? "

I can usually retain what I need to long enough for that sort of thing.

Persistence can produce a miracle! Unfortunately, very few people can persist long enough to see a miracle happen.

Depending on market conditions investors should be prepared to hold the property long enough to generate a return on investment.

Reeve did not live long enough to see whether stem cell research could help restore movement to the paralyzed.

The subjects had been using their phones only for an average of about four years, which may not be long enough to ascertain cancer risk.

A week, two, long enough to let you think I'd excused and forgiven as I always have.

As Marcus instructs his companions to leave, an elderly woman (Jane Alexander) insists they stay long enough to feed the girl.

What I'm trying to say is we need to stick to it long enough.

But only long enough for her to look the other way, so I can once again catch a glimpse of magnificence.

They had not lived long enough or hard enough to possess those qualities that interested him.

We're not politicians, like you; we've gone through hell long enough to want something of the other thing.

Nowhere did we stop long enough to get a particularized impression, but the general sense of vague and oppressive wonder grew upon me.

At night, a match that stayed lit long enough to light three cigarettes provided a target for the enemy.

but I knew nothing that had happened here for a fortnight, and felt that I had been away long enough.

Why a month? Coz' a month is long enough to be meaningful, short enough to stay out of trouble.

She's concerned that the swine flu vaccine hasn't been studied long enough to justify for her less-at-risk youngsters.

And now I have the pleasure of having lived long enough to see that the young people again believe in it.

We are a pair-bonded species, practicing monogamy (or at least serial monogamy) long enough to get our children out of childhood.

Miss Bertram, displeased with her sister, led the way, and all seemed to feel that they had been there long enough.

Unfortunately, Carlzon did not survive in the industry long enough to turn this particular vision into reality.

You've got to hear from someone, you're never home long enough to know them.

A PWSD cure needs careful planning in advance and some tough decisions to take your medicine and stick with it long enough to see results.

Unfortunately, very few people can persist long enough to see a miracle happen.

The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to put the other somewhat higher.

I did not stay long enough to verify the many claims of bed bugs, but if it were true, that'll hardly surprise me.

'Oh, cheer up! 'she went on, laughing. 'However little time I have to live, I'll live long enough to see you love out. '

One of our younger people said that Bob had told him that if he lived long enough, he would do something he'd be ashamed of, too.

Each supporting actor had a clip long enough to be a movie trailer, spliced together like a YouTube mash-up.

just long enough for you to leave from it; and then it should drift out of your memory.

But the boom has not lasted long enough to leave too much debt in its wake.

My lazy tendencies stirred long enough to convince me of the virtue in the last option. . . But I wasn't completely unproductive.

The key is to move yourself into a positive thought and keep it there long enough to make it a moment of blissful peace.

Forms the most basic information unit - short enough to be easily readable, but long enough to make sense on its own.

Whatever routine you decide on, stick with it long enough to see if it works and tweak it gently and one thing at a time if it doesn't.

Connections are open only long enough to read the data or to update it, so locks cannot be sustained for long periods.

Some postulated how much fun it might be to brush or braid the fur covering the entire form, particularly if it grew long enough.

You may run into a different sort of trouble the next time around, but keep at it long enough and you'll run out of mistakes.

These fish will be kept out of the water just long enough for you to take a picture then returned to the Sea.

Because of their compatibility, their government may at least survive long enough for them to do a bit of good.

I'm going to see Ron and have it out with him; this dispute has gone on long enough.

If it goes on long enough, the complex may take over, may "possess" you, and you might wind up with a multiple personality.

He never got off his high horse long enough to consider how insulting his words were to many of his employees.

For there is the little matter of building a reactor that can run for long enough to turn out a meaningful amount of electricity.

Don't avoid complainers, listen to them just long enough to hear the problem, then try to come up with a solution.

Teddy Stoddard stayed after school that day just long enough to say, "Mrs. Thompson, today you smelled just like my Mom used to. "

If one of the points of your sermon seems to be inadequately developed, but the sermon is already long enough, eliminate one of the points.

When he had gazed long enough he knew that it would be a profitable day.

He found a rope in his cell that was half as long enough to permit him to reach the ground safely.

When he had gazed long enough he knew that it would be a profitable day.

He found a rope in his cell that was half as long enough to permit him to reach the ground safely.

I could have told him all this, but it was fairly obvious he wasn't going to be around long enough for it to matter.

We will limit their contracts to three months, long enough to get something sensible on to their CV and to be able to give them a reference.

I read in another review that you jumped in just long enough to get clean and got out as fast as you could-that hit the nail on the head.

Ultimately, he was able to stabilize me long enough to get me to the closest medical facility.

If I were to live long enough to have a job, I would choose to be a doctor, helping these AIDS patients.

What has a head like a giraffe, a body like a horse, stripes like a zebra, and a blue tongue long enough to clean its own ears?

And he says he hopes to live long enough to see China change its position on the Tiananmen Square killings in 1989.

I took my eyes off his wife long enough to listen to him, even though she slumbered in my senses all the while.

And he says he hopes to live long enough to see China change its position on the Tiananmen Square killings in 1989.

I took my eyes off his wife long enough to listen to him, even though she slumbered in my senses all the while.

For this reason, you must teach yourself some self-discipline, so that you can stay with a project long enough to understand it.

Stop flicking through the mail if she's trying to talk with you or turning off the TV long enough to answer a question.

I never stick around quite long enough to make it, well I deserve nothing more than I get.

Just as you see, I can also sit at my desk long enough to write my blog now.

Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.

They are truly paralyzed by analysis and seem to never stop analyzing long enough to make a decision.

Modern, dynamic economies do not stay still long enough to allow for an accurate reading of their underlying structures.

He was tall, thin, and very old, judging by the silver of his hair and beard, which were both long enough to tuck into his belt.

He was tall, thin, and very old, judging by the silver of his hair and beard, which were both long enough to tuck into his belt.

Why don't these people get a life? You know, I've lived long enough to know that good marriages go through tough times.

In the middle of the night I sometimes wonder how some of them would react if they could live long enough to see the China of today.

Infatuation is nature's biological trick to guarantee that a man and a woman are thrown together long enough to procreate.

It is, in fact, a biological trick by nature to guarantee that a man and a woman are thrown together long enough to procreate.

You'll see. . . I'll show you. -You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.

Working Surface in a sample room should be sturdy and smooth and long enough to allow a full-length dress to be cut.

I tell you, (you) work this shift long enough you see some pretty animated things. Get a load of this guy! Light him up.

I knew if I stayed around long enough, something like this would happen.

Left unchecked , this could easily cause a program to run out of memory if it runs for long enough .

"We've waited long enough, now something had to be done. . . The best will be chosen and the best you find among women and men, " she said.

Lawson has been around long enough to see off pipsqueak MPs, even if their questions are, actually, quite valid.

There seemed very little point in continuing with his research because he might not live long enough to finish his PhD.

Sure the bureaucracy had taken long enough to finally allow her to in.

I saw some offensive plays for Scola when he was in. But he was not in the game long enough to know if he can contribute consistently.

When Dennis was a guest on a radio show in 1984, a caller assured him that if he traded long enough, he would give it all back.

He presumably hopes that if he waits long enough, people will have forgotten about this ugly incident.

He paused long enough to allow that to sink in -give Clyde the feeling that he was an interloper indeed.

If your camera has a "sleep" mode, make sure it is disabled or set to a time increment long enough to allow your images to download.

And if you pursue that singular path long enough, you'll eventually see that when you optimize one question, you optimize the other as well.

And if you pursue that singular path long enough, you'll eventually see that when you optimize one question, you optimize the other as well.

I wanted to be a headbanger when I was young but my mom would not let me grow my hair long enough.

Harvey Dent: You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.

The love letter you finally got the courage to send will be delayed in the mail long enough for you to make a fool of yourself in person.

It did so by keeping its central plan in place long enough to grow out of it.

The question is whether the movement can last long enough to capture the imagination and participation of the middle class.

If I find the rat finkwho informed on me, he won't live long enough to do it again.

William's father, Charles, said he was, "thrilled, obviously, thank you. They have been practicing long enough. "

The big question, of course, is whether that will keep bank finances shored up long enough for markets to stabilise.

The rope was just long enough to save Herman, and the four men on the raft tugged on the rope to pull them back to safety.

Usual practice is to heat the steel to the desired temperature and hold it there only long enough to have it uniformly heated.

I stopped over in Bangkok twice but didn't have long enough to get the measure of the city or put it to much of a shade test.

I'll be happy if I live long enough to worry about dying from heart disease or cancer brought on by air pollution.

He lived long enough to see Sir Alex win the European Cup Winners Cup and United's first ever "Double" before dying in 1995.

Each description is no more than a few pages, but long enough to prompt eerie wonderings.

"The duration of the trial is not long enough to believe that the treatment would cause cancer, " Dr. Pedersen said.

After that nothing major happened in his house and I was only in his basement long enough to move the TV and X-Box upstairs.

For those who pause long enough to wonder if it is nature or nurture which guides them, the answer may have emerged.

Samuel lived long enough to see the winds of change that swept across the world.

Her new study is the first one large and long enough to give clear proof that this is so, and even suggests that weightlifting can help.

Every 10 years or so, it seems, a handful of new looks endure long enough to become accepted as the uniform of a generation.

Sigh. You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.

I'd been using Ubuntu long enough beforehand that it wasn't a huge jump to getting involved, just a personal hurdle.

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

I have been around long enough to know this kind of guys. I can rip him to pieces in a second.

Harvey Dent: a You either die a hero or Naked ou live long enough to see yourselfrbecome bhe Prisoner ked villain.

A careless trader can get away with no stops for a while, but if he trades long enough the market will kill him.

But wait long enough and you will see that, of course, the periods will be different.

Our products might not be built to last like they used to, but chances are, we won't be using them long enough to care.

He's been at the club long enough to bed in.

This assumption states that the enterprise will continue in operation long enough to carry out its existing objectives.

You ether die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.

Place the baby on your abdomen or, if the cord is long enough (don't tug at it), on your chest.

He measured the rope to see if it was long enough.

I'm glad that we were able to fight long enough to get this resolved.

The strategy seemed to work, long enough that it eventually became a standard tool for the Federal Reserve, one the bank deployed in 2008.

Therefore we must listen long enough to detect a strong, easily distinguishable part of the signal.

This situation has been going on long enough. Liverpool have to come up with a good offer and the money we want by that day.

The inspector is made of sterner stuff, however, and governs himself long enough to enquire after Watson in a high, strangled tone.

If you stay in the game long enough, good luck tends to return, but if you get knocked out, you'll never have the chance to be lucky again.

It took him long enough to understand that he was a gay.

Working memory enables you to perform simple calculations in your head or retain phone numbers long enough to dial them.

Most of the cooperative systems we've seen haven't been around long enough to have gotten to the acceptance phase.

In the case of very expensive queries , it may run long enough to cause a discernible delay .

A sea elf refugee from warmer water, he'd been swimming Waterdeep for a decade, long enough to master the local underwater dialect.

I also believe that the record must be long enough to make a good judgment.

The crew attaches new lengths of pipe one by one from the top until the "drill string" is long enough to hit the seafloor.

About one in three only stayed long enough to lay aside money with which to go back home and live in ease.

Although a body pillow may be long enough to bend around and support the head, it may be too thick.

We had come into it only for a short time, but for just long enough to still the ticking of the clock.

We had come into it only for a short time, but for just long enough to still the ticking of the clock.

If we drop in and out of relationships, we don't stick around long enough to allow these good things to happen.

If it's -- see it for a long enough time, I actually do something about it.

The strategy was to hold the Persian force long enough until the Spartan and Athenian state could organize a much larger and stronger force.

Bah! You gnats actually hurt me. Perhaps I've toyed with you long enough. Now. . . taste the vengeance of the grave!

But none has hung around long enough to be examined in detail because, famously, antimatter and matter annihilate each other on contact.

Once you've been listening to him for long enough, it all starts to seem vaguely plausible.

The crunch has lasted long enough to spawn its own publishing mini-boom, as authors have raced to give their diagnoses in print.

I've seen very talented people literally go down the drain because they couldn't seem to keep their focus long enough to get anything done.

"My daughter can't stop texting long enough to concentrate on a book, " said one parent surveyed, the mother of a 15-year-old in Texas.

You probably won't live long enough to have to deal with this problem.

The Namespaces Recommendation document itself refers to these declarations as reserved attributes long enough to introduce them.

We remember a telephone number just long enough to write it down or dial it out.

A talk and presentation of 18-minutes length is long enough to be serious and short enough to hold people's attention.

It has to be long enough to track recent behavior but short enough to be relevant for current trading.

First of all, the orientation program could last long enough to enable students to feel at home.

Well, if you hang around long enough to see me disappear.

But many in the markets worry that rapid US growth will not be sustained long enough to eliminate the large excess capacity.

GM and Chrysler, however, may not survive long enough to be bailed out, and Ford is burning through the billions, too.

If the blood loss goes on long enough and the child is not consuming any iron-containing foods or supplements profound anemia is inevitable.

If the blood loss goes on long enough and the child is not consuming any iron-containing foods or supplements profound anemia is inevitable.

Of the millions who saw Haley's comet in 1986, ho w many people will live long enough to see it return i n the twenty-first century.

Historians say few scrip notes were counterfeited, in part because many didn't circulate long enough to get a racket up and running.

If you stick with it long enough and work at it hard enough, you will.

Some that survive only last long enough to become dinner, and a rare few remain in the household as pets.

Even when they were at war with each other , they stopped the quarrel, put anger aside and united; long enough to carry out this program.

That means leaking pipes could have gone unfixed long enough to create the right conditions for the sinkhole.

But If you hang around long enough to see me disappear.

These types are likely to volunteer, but in many cases their enthusiasm will not last long enough for them to see it through.

When a browser requests a page from a Web server, the browser and the server are connected only long enough to process the request.

When a browser requests a page from a Web server, the browser and the server are connected only long enough to process the request.

Good patter will distract the audience just long enough to keep it from guessing how you pull off the magic feats.

The list of enthusiastic devaluers is long enough to stir up a global fight: Japan, China, the US, the UK and Korea.

They have worked out how to transplant a womb with a good blood supply which could mean it lasts long enough to carry a pregnancy to term.

Sell the barometer. Purchase a tape measure long enough to measure the height of the building.

People who live only for their work, and who then retire, frequently do not live long enough to enjoy the fruits of their retirement.

Also, Jobs has been around long enough to remember the advantages of a vertically integrated company.

But they had been at the receiving end of prejudice long enough, we thought, to empathize with the underdog of either sex.

Mom, I lived at home through four years of college. Don't you think that's long enough?

Most temps don't stay long enough to see their projects to the end.

Most temps don't stay long enough to see their projects to the end.

Schirra fired a rocket exactly long enough to put his spacecraft in the same orbit.

long enough to see your friends betray you.

For an accurate measurement, blood must be sampled frequently over a long enough time to observe virtually complete drug elimination.

"I think I've been around long enough to sense a very serious problem, and this seems like one, " Mr. Cohen told Mr. Geithner.

Indeed, I lived in such a place long enough to enable me to support the character.

We rarely pause long enough to examine the tenets of our cultures, but new employees absorb them almost by osmosis.

Meanwhile, if you've not managed to stare at a stranger long enough to clinch a date by Valentine's Day, don't despair.

For any living creature, the evolutionary game involves obtaining resources to live long enough to procreate and rear its young.

Well if I wait long enough this look will be back in fashion eventually.

"If you'll just wait long enough, " I said, "you'll see her coming up those stairs some day. "

Cam: Okay, so a long enough holiday to see your family. Or why not suggest that any traveling assignments to Beijing be filled by you?

The clay felt sure that, if it could only wait long enough, a wonderful reward was in store for it.

I started to respond in the comments, but it ran on for long enough that I decided it merited a blog post of its own.

At units 1 and 3, fuel rods were left exposed for long enough to allow at least some melting, experts believe.

Yep. Of course, they only bounce so far. If the tunnel is long enough, even FM stations fade out until you come out the other end.

'Oh, you're sure to do that, ' said the Cat, 'if you only walk long enough. '

Highways are constructed in China at a rate exceeding 4, 000 kilometers a year, long enough to span the entire United States.

You surely will get your own way as long as you stick to your determination long enough.

But they cannot get away from their own miserable egos long enough to hear me.

But they cannot get away from their own miserable egos long enough to hear me.

As long as beautiful long enough to be elected in 2008 Beijing Olympic Games presentation ceremony volunteers?

We took to the wilderness, never stopping long enough to draw the notice of our sheller neighbors.

Extrapolate this process out long enough and the chance of experiencing one of these problems approaches 100%.

Can spins in solids maintain quantum information long enough to perform a useful number of operations on that information?

It took me long enough to realize it , but I finally know who the true hero is. Mom, I love you !

"May you see your children's children" ; meaning: "May you live long enough to enjoy. "

It was taken with a half-second exposure; just long enough to get the blurred motion of the people.

I looked off a place to park long enough to run a few errands.

'Oh Mary! Will I live long enough to see it? '