How to Use long in coming in a Sentence

long in coming

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• Yes, things have changed, but change has been too long in coming.
  — Father Edward Beck, CNN, 6 Oct. 2021
• That said, critics of the law said its demise was long in coming.
  — David Bloom, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025
• Those transit plans may be long in coming, but the new construction — years in the making — is approaching fast.
  — Catherine Carlock, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Oct. 2022
• Anslinger's reaction to La Guardia Report was not long in coming.
  — Dario Sabaghi, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2021
• The book was so long in coming, however, that people began to wonder if the 51-year-old author was writing it at all.
  — Moira Hodgson, WSJ, 14 Oct. 2021
• The rift between the pair was long in coming and highlighted how even the most loyal officials often find themselves on the outs with the president.
  — Del Quentin Wilber, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2020
• But the money for state Medicaid programs, long in coming, will only be available over four calendar quarters this year and next.
  — Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Mar. 2021
• The statue memorial has been too long in coming, said Orozco-Garrett, who for a time would serve as a Dallas justice of the peace.
  — Dianne Solis, Dallas News, 22 July 2021
• On the fourth pitch of a debut too long in coming and too big for the venue, Jacob deGrom tried a get-me-over fastball to make up for the errant one that preceded it.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 13 Mar. 2023
• Cleveland City Council members who got their first look at a plan to use a greenbelt to connect downtown to the lake front said the idea was bold and ambitious and too long in coming.
  — Robert Higgs, cleveland, 17 May 2021
• The apology that Francis made on Indigeneous lands on Monday, long in coming and held back along the way, put the Church on the path of penitence once and for all.
  — Paul Elie, The New Yorker, 26 July 2022
• For crypto critics such as Ben Schiffrin, senior policy director at consumer finance advocacy group Better Markets, the losses have been long in coming.
  — Rafael Nam, NPR, 7 Feb. 2026
• The Great Correction that Malinowski envisions has been far too long in coming, but, in certain quarters of Washington, optimism is finally having a moment.
  — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2022
• The violent reaction of the Jalisco Cartel — New Generation was not long in coming after the death of its leader, unleashing a wave of blockades and narco-blockades that paralyzed different points of the state.
  — Claudia Núñez, AZCentral.com, 22 Feb. 2026