as long as

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The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty of 1996 allows signatories to carry out activities to assure the safety and reliability of their nuclear arsenal, including experiments involving fissile material, as long as they don’t result in a nuclear-explosive yield.

From The Wall Street Journal

As long as he concentrated on that little game, he didn’t have to think about the fact that he and Katherine and Chip were about to do something incredibly stupid and probably dangerous as well.

From Literature

Nothing could happen as long as he sat close to the doorway out.

From Literature

For as long as she could remember, Chica had been the only turtle to swim out of the sea, back to this beach where she was hatched, to lay her own eggs.

From Literature

As long as they don’t tie it up too well.

From Literature