This has dragged on for far too long.

I don't think they lasted very long.

For a long time, there was me, and my body.

China has long run large surpluses.

Legislators kept the idea of change alive for a long time.

I'd collected I was a collector, major, big time.

We have long supported a permanent seat for Japan.

It is on this basis that I recommend that the Security Council consider extending the mandate of MONUC for a period of one year, until 31 March 2006.

The Education Officer, who is also the editor of the Pitcairn Miscellany, the Territory's only newspaper, is a trained teacher recruited from New Zealand, usually for a one year term.

He's been suffering from a right hip pain for a while.

The crisis has lasted for a long time, and people are tired.

These interests are unlikely to change for a long time.

China will be busy addressing its own internal contradictions for a long time yet.

Pastoralism has long been a harrowing existence in the Horn of Africa.

It may well be that Chávez s purported feats and popularity will outlast him.

But Asians have been looking at, and reflecting upon, the European experiment for a long time.

It should have won at least one Oscar.

This will help in standardising the quality of training and in sustaining it for a long period.

The 300 series appointment of limited duration would be used as the contractual instrument for the employment of staff performing functions that are temporary in nature, with a limited duration of under one year.

But he stays too long (Uganda s Yoweri Museveni comes to mind).

In both cases, these cozy relationships were maintained for far too long.

Sweden has long been known for its lifestyle liberalism.

Longtime regime opponents, too, were caught off guard.

Europe has engaged in navel gazing for long enough.

This is about protecting ourselves something that we have long thought impossible.

French isn t mostly spoken by French people, and hasn t been for a long time now.

The regional dimension of prosperity has long been ignored in the Arab world.

For a long time, the participants said little about the buyout aspects of the solution.

For him, Poland and Spain had long had a somewhat parallel history.

Now, however, the region s political inertia has been disrupted.

The forewings are 5 6.6 cm (2.2 2.4 in) long.

The dream of a permanent international court was deferred for far too long.

Argentina's population has long had one of Latin America's lowest growth rates (recently, about one percent a year) and it also enjoys a comparatively low infant mortality rate.

This occupation lasted around one year.

In 2013, he was elected to a fourth term in office.

Sociologists of religion have long argued that in a monolithic religious environment, or when religious institutions are closely tied to the state, the overall religiosity of the public declines.

It was a machine that was designed long before anyone thought about computers.

For a long time, this is the image of American manhood that dominated in control of his own environment.

A behavioral metric of what intelligence is, and this has stuck in our minds for a long period of time.

The repercussions of this miscarriage of justice may be felt for a long time.

Indeed, diplomats have long been some of the most proficient social networkers and connectors.

Housing booms can last a long time, typically more than a decade.

The relationship between the majority Buddhist Rakhine and the Muslim Rohingya has long been a tinderbox.

So those hopes were always false. Indeed, most of Russia s rulers have been in office for the better part of a decade.

Researchers have long used techniques like periodic household surveys to collect data.