Therefore the Eddorians, for the first time in their prodigiously long history of fanatical non-cooperation, decided to pool their resources of mind and of material and to work as a group.

The prodigiously long blood-lines, so carefully manipulated by Mentor of Arisia, neared culmination.

Time went on; the prodigiously long blood-lines, so carefully manipulated by Mentor of Arisia, neared culmination.

The Dauphin then required a number of grave priests and bishops to give him their opinion whether the girl derived her power from good spirits or from evil spirits, which they held prodigiously long debates about, in the course of which several learned men fell fast asleep and snored loudly.

Kimball Kinnison, while in no sense a mutant, was the penultimate product of a prodigiously long line of selective, controlled breeding.