He lifted weights, ran long distances, and learned how to be a boxer.

VOA: special.2010.08.05

And we will then get over to here, where he's sitting on the tonic chord, and we want to see how long he's going to hold this tonic chord. Okay?

接着再到这里来，他停在了主音和弦上，然后我们想看看他会在主音和弦上保持多久，好吧？

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

And you could never imagine that he would be somebody that people would listen to on the radio, hour after hour, because that's how long he talked; or that when Stauffenberg tries to kill him in 1944 the Germans would pour out of the-- into the street to thank god for saving the Fuhrer.

你根本就无法想像人们会在,收音机上听他讲话,听好几个小时,因为他讲话就讲那么长时间,或者在1944年,史陶芬博格想要刺杀他的时候德国人会冲到,到大街上感谢上帝拯救他们的元首

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

He wondered how long it took a bird to die.

VOA: special.2010.03.20

"This was a first and therefore you had to deal with his absurd and vile policies and the analysis of them had to take a long time and you had to get right down deep into him and how he thought,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

and coalition forces to the Afghans. Announcing an increase of 30,000 U.S. troops last week, U.S.President Barack Obama said they will begin to hand over security responsibility to Afghan forces by July of 2011, but he did not say how long the transition will take.

VOA: standard.2009.12.09