How to Use long in coming in a Sentence

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• Yes, things have changed, but change has been too long in coming.
  — Father Edward Beck, CNN, 6 Oct. 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
• 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
• 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
• 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 decision undoes a verdict that several women who said that they had been assaulted and raped by Mr. Cosby had praised at the time as a measure of justice that had been long in coming.
  — New York Times, 30 June 2021
• But any real relief for U.S. manufacturers still will be long in coming.
  — Dale Buss, Forbes, 1 June 2021
• Meaningful accountability may be long in coming, but ongoing court cases in the U.S. and Canada now offer a valuable look into how the Saudi regime pursues its critics overseas.
  — Jacob Silverman, The New Republic, 25 Mar. 2021

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