1.   Anne left Germany in the expectation of seeing her family again before very long.

2.   Before very long he becomes the leader of one of the most powerful teenage gangs in Brooklyn.

3.   Before very long on a planetary time scale the surface temperatures would reach Cytherean values.

4.   Have you had this contradictory nature for very long?

5.   Many of these had not been Christians for very long.

6.   More rabbits are likely to move in, more rabbits are bred and no area stays denuded for very long.

7.   These geese rarely stay for very long, except in severe weather.

8.   This, at least, is some suggestion of a backbone, but the larva does not keep it for very long.

9.   Tissington however, did not hold on to his lease for very long.

10.   He lived like a nomad for a few years after college, never holding a job in one place for very long.