And though it was a long game, he never had a chance.

Long games are still out there if you know where to look for them.

And a long game is not necessarily a bad one.

This is just the first inning of a long game.

Not only that, but he was a lover of the long game.

It would be the longest game until May 4, 2000.

"You can see those type of things starting to take effect after a long game."

The 49ers better care about the Saints, or it will be a long game.

I had long games by myself doing that; it used to go on for days.

The long game is the one that will pay dividends.

It's best to play the Iranians at the long game.

Great long game drives, not only during the day but also early morning and evening!

The game is still among the top 10 longest games.

And at the moment I didn't feel patient enough to spin out a long game.

Let's face it, going back five or six years now Tiger's long game hasn't been that great.

Games to 15, using the 7 and 8, are sometimes played as well when a longer game is desired.

The owners also benefit from longer games in another way.

For longer games, players may continue until they reach 500 points.

He had a very long game out in right field and I want him to play tomorrow night."

If you think we understand the long game, think again.

But it was not the longest game in either franchise's history.

It's great that Hughes has decided to focus on the longer game as well.

Ed Balls, on the other hand, is playing a long game.

I assume that Obama, as he often does, is playing the long game.

This is what I'm getting at when I talk about the long game.

Eve thought, from the beginning, nothing but a long con for profit.

Mickey is a professional grifter who makes money by setting up long cons.

In addition to one long con, each episode features a number of short cons played by the major characters on members of the public.

The Kennedy siblings are less-experienced grifters, and newcomers to the long con.

He pretends to begin a long con, using her money to set it up, but in fact he simply plans to take the money.

After learning a few basic tricks, Cassidy soon asks Sawyer to pull off a long con.

Stacie is the only female member of a team-come-family of "long con" artists.

His helmet no longer con- stricted his voice.

Sawyer reveals that the incident was an elaborate "long con" to seize the guns and declare himself the "new sheriff in town".

Each one-hour programme follows the team of grifters as they practise the "long con", an extended deception practised against one or more "marks".

He had all too long con- sidered himself invulnerable, protected by destiny-merely because of the force of his motivations.

Moira Langtry: She was involved with Roy and is involved in the long con.

That's all I knew, cons-short cons, long cons, lifting wallets or playing the beard for some other grifter."

Jack and Jin intend to exact revenge on the Others, only for Sawyer to reveal that they had fallen for his long con.

In the season 2 episode "The Long Con", Sayid and Hurley hear the song being played on a music station.

With only 3 1/2 hours left before the series ends for good, however, what once felt like a delicious tease now feels a little bit like a long con.

When times were lean he has been willing to lend his acting talents to unscripted roles, to street improvisations-in short, to what the police call the "long con."

Mozzie later approached Neal about pulling a long con on a CEO named Vincent Adler.

The cover features John Hodgman holding a ferret, a reference to one of the "long cons" from The Areas of My Expertise.

Another song heard in the premiere, "Moonlight Serenade by Glenn Miller, was first used in the season two episode "The Long Con".

A hoax so well executed that it more closely resembles a long con, where the mark (in this case Techcrunch) is given numerous accurate tips before being hit with the sting.

On another occasion, Sawyer carries out a "Long con" (large-scale con) on a divorced woman named Cassidy who is known to be less gullible than his usual victims.

Just as they are about to embark on an ambitious long con, Roy's long-lost teenage daughter, Angela (Ms. Lohman), shows up to upend his pathologically ordered universe.

The necklace itself is a ravishing bauble designed by the royal jewelers for the ill-fated neck of Marie Antoinette, and it becomes the prize in Jeanne's ruthless long con.

Lester's departure for series four required Stone to be written out; the writers indicated that he had gone to Sydney, Australia, leading a long con to short-sell the Sydney Opera House.