so long

The film rests in a dismal tone for so long that its gloominess becomes sappy, making the ending feel hackneyed and inevitable.

“But he needs more time. One cannot resolve in one year the violence that we have seen for so long in Mexico.”

Elizabeth Alvarez struggles to understand how it took so long to learn her brother's fate.

But it was not so long ago that the 23-year-old was lining up for the Welsh college as part of an exchange programme with his school in Cape Town.

But interventions then dropped off, and on the UK side there seems to be surprise that it has taken so long to resolve the problems Retailleau had already identified and said he would fix.