But, while the tandem continues to see its main achievement as stability, what they now mean is the regime s ability to stay in power for a long time.

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.

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.

The average hospital stay following a lung transplant is generally one to three weeks, though complications may require a longer period of time.

Many of the outcomes of these efforts will not be measurable for some time, but recent data (provided in the table above) indicate that there are already measured improvements in school retention rates.

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.

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.

As in the world of content and software, new design brands are likely to emerge and die more quickly the pace of change will increase and it will be harder to stay on top for long.

And, after Putin falls, the leaders of other authoritarian post Soviet regimes from Belarus s Alexander Lukashenko and Kazakhstan sNursultan Nazarbayev to Ukraine s would be Putin, Viktor Yanukovich will not survive in power for long.

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.

If a relationship or stay in the Netherlands has lasted more than three years, continued residence is permitted.

If unemployment was not stuck quite at Great Depression levels, it remained high enough to make long term joblessness or the fear of long term joblessness a defining experience.

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.