Springs are short, while autumns are long.

He's been a long while in Babylon .

The couple dated for a long while before marrying.

It's been a long while since we had such fine weather.

Normally migrant workers work long hours while they are offered a very low wage.

While elaborating a long term solution , the concept of account number portability should be reviewed .

While the West accumulated debts, Asia had startled the world with its long economic boom.

Business as usual can work for a while, but it will end in tears, while the sustainable development path can lead to long term prosperity.

So, while you're trying to make up your mind what the doctor, the surgeon, is doing while he's hacking away at your body, he's long gone.

While not fully comparable , the long term interest rates used are deemed to be the most relevant .

While too rapid a rate of immigration can cause social problems, over the long term, immigration strengthens US power.

The long military campaigns had forced citizens to leave their farms to fight, while their farms fell into disrepair.

Now, while 4Shbab and The 99 may look new and shiny, there is actually a very long tradition of this.

Some of the blogs have been around for long time, while other have created their blogs especially for the election.

You can feel deep attachment to a long term partner while you feel intense romantic love for somebody else, while you feel the sex drive for people unrelated to these other partners.

In the long run, solidarity is cheaper for all involved, while its absence could become ruinously expensive in the foreseeable future.

Short term memory (STM) is temporary and subject to disruption, while long term memory (LTM), once consolidated, is persistent and stable.

1050 means a string alpha numeric up to 1050 characters long , AN1 means one alpha numeric character , while N1 means 1 digit ) .

While initially opposed to drama school, he changed his mind in 1984, after a long and fruitless period of searching for work.

For too long now, children with developmental disorders have suffered from misdiagnosis while their real problems have gone undetected and left to worsen.

But while many advances are occurring in Morocco, both in the areas of technology and freedom, there's still a long way to go.

While XXX Corps briefly captured Villers Bocage, their lead armoured elements were ambushed, initiating a day long battle (the Battle of Villers Bocage).

While mountain tops remain snow capped year long, near the coast snow only stays on the ground for a few minutes or hours.

So, I began, early on, competing against the other kids, seeing how long I could stay underwater while they went up and down to breathe, you know, five times, while I stayed under on one breath.

Life is a long, long road.

While knowledge of the plan was initially confined largely to Kenyan government officials, it was not long before its contours began to be revealed.

Indeed, the Middle East cannot achieve long term stability while Iran is excluded from negotiations and the Shia Sunni schism is allowed to deepen.

Roughly a quarter of the contributors are deceased, some as long ago as 1947 (Alfred North Whitehead), while another quarter are retired or emeritus.

The music was composed by Final Fantasy veteran Nobuo Uematsu, while the series' long time character designer, Yoshitaka Amano, was replaced by Tetsuya Nomura.

These niche products open opportunities for suppliers while concomitantly satisfying the demands of many individuals therefore lengthening the tail portion of the long tail.

I waited in a long, long line.

Everything was long jams, long guitar solos ... .

The challenge for humanity is twofold to survive long enough to reach that point, and to cause the least amount of harm while getting there.

While reducing such capabilities might seem like an expedient way to cut costs, European governments must not lose sight of their long term security priorities.

While this was happening, the European Union that has for so long dangled the carrot of club membership in front of Turkey stood by passively.

It will last for a long, long time.

It won't be long. It won't be long.

However , in the second half of the year , the annual growth rate of long term loans picked up strongly . While short term loans are often used as working capital , long term loans are generally more closely linked with business investment .

While Abeo Jackson thought it certainly took long enough to do away with the practice, Lara Quentrall Thomas jubilant that the day had come at last

Rome suffered a long series of internal conflicts, conspiracies and civil wars from the late second century BC onwards, while greatly extending its power beyond Italy.

The final model was long, built from the rear forward so that the camera crews could shoot footage while the next sections were still being fabricated.

While Iran's embassy denied the allegations, and said they were the result of a cultural misunderstanding , netizens both from Iran and Brazil didn't take long to react.

While the incubation period for prion diseases is relatively long (5 to 20 years), once symptoms appear the disease progresses rapidly, leading to brain damage and death.

While Cobain said the song was written long before his troubles with drug addiction became public, he agreed that the song could be viewed in that light.

The largest species is the cuatro ojos ( Anableps dowi ), which measures in length, while the smallest, the least killifish ( Heterandria formosa ), is just long as an adult.