But it has been a while since Indians and Chinese had much to do with each other.

Time passed, and they thought he had surely forgotten them, Then as time passed, at the end of almost two years, they thought, Well, perhaps our father has died.

In fact, it had been a long time since I'd seen you.

It has been a long time since the words opportunity and Middle East appeared in the same sentence.

I lost hope in freedom of the press in Jordan a long time ago.

Most Russians reached this conclusion long before the Beslan attack.

And I don't want it to leave me It's been a while since you guys have been picking your last bale of cotton, isn't it?

SEOUL There was a time, not long after the Cold War s end, when almost everyone assumed that North Korea would soon collapse.

It has been some time since there were reports of the occasional election worker, candidate, or voter being assaulted, kidnapped, or shot.

It seems like a long time ago that I once wondered if HM Queen Rania was a blogger.

African heads of State have long understood that achieving peace and stability on the African continent is a prerequisite for development.

I have been waiting here for a long time.

They have long become obsolete.

It has been two decades since the last global debt crisis.

This happened a long time ago.

It's been forever since I didn't go to the beach.

I haven't been fishing in a long time.

It is now one year later, mid 2005.

It takes children a long time to break into the system.

It took me a long time to explain that I'm not her and that she's not me.

On one hand, this is a long time coming.

The line is huge, so I guess I just have to give up .

After the examination has been completed and the laboratory findings received, the sanitary book is issued or appropriate recommendations are given in terms of the continued treatment of the patients in case the examination has revealed some disease.

Just as there was a time when collateralized securities were safe, there was also a time when economies with so much state intervention were called socialist.

It's been a long while since we had such fine weather.

Not long after that, it was annexed by the Normans.

Holding a referendum would require considerable time and resources.

It has been a long time since the words opportunity and Middle East appeared in the same sentence. But now they are.

For too long, Africa has remained the backwater of development.

TEL AVIV Revolutions throughout history have proven to devour their children.

It has been over a week since Kenya s elections were held and Kenya is still burning.

It has long been recognized that those America s banks that are too big to fail are also too big to be managed. That is one reason that the performance of several of them has been so dismal.

They've been around a long time, have been very important to coast communities.

Not long after, I was fitted with hearing aids.

Joseph Kony has been doing this for a very, very, very long time.

Immunization of children was provided long before independence.

NEW YORK It is now almost a year since the world economy teetered on the edge of calamity.

They are unique. They are useful sometimes, often a long time after the fact.

King David lived to be 70, a long time in his era.

Before long, she is cheating on her boyfriend and swooning into Song s arms and bed.

Apart from traditional diplomacy, they should have transmitted the feelings of its public to those on the other side of the border.

Such comprehensive strategies should have been put in place long ago.

Practical measures and they have been on the table for a long time are important to that end.

It's already past your bedtime.

It has been 20 years since Alan Greenspan became chairman of America s Federal Reserve Bank.