81.   It will be a long while before the Knicks find out whether Thomas represents immediate depth on their roster.

82.   John toys with the trout for a long while before bending to take it from the water.

83.   Jill Pages paused a long while and chalked her hands twice.

84.   Naturally, presidential consultants and confidantes have been around for a long while.

85.   Now, for the first time in a long while, I simply gazed at my reflection.

86.   On Sunday, she leaned back in the stands and closed her eyes, as if visualizing the positive, and she sat there a good long while.

87.   Once in a very long while, an art exhibition bursts on the scene that holds the imagination hostage.

88.   Playing the stern proprietor of a small-town Maryland hardware store, she takes an awfully long while to slip from scowling into flirtatious romantic-comedy mode.

89.   Pitcher Mike Morgan of the Texas Rangers earned a victory over the Seattle Mariners last week and earned a distinction that could remain for a long while.

90.   Photographs and paintings of World War II grew more fierce and explicit, though for a long while whatever horrors were represented had been visited on our enemies alone.