91.   The odds are long for every seventh-rounder.

92.   The political battles and attendant bitterness over government financing of the arts is enough to make one long for the days of enlightened private patronage.

93.   The play is too long for its purposes, and the famously anxious Ms. May appeared slightly off her timing the night I saw it.

94.   The playwright who waited so long for change, it turns out, is not afraid to admit that he is not entirely happy with change.

95.   The odds are long for the Falcons no matter what the Bucs and Ravens do.

96.   The title was unusually long for a pop record.

97.   The watch-out-for-those-guys list is long for the Stars, and will continue to grow.

98.   The Yankees have become so cloyingly sweet that it makes one long for the days of George and Billy and Reggie.

99.   Then Kahn rushed forward and scooped a pass that was barely too long for a sprinting rush by Yoo Sang Chul.

100.   They are people who feel the loss of a sense of community in transient, suburban America and long for a return to religious roots, he said.