I don't think they lasted very long.

The end of the East West conflict, long a factor of paralysis for our Organization, launched a new era.

This has dragged on for far too long.

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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.

The Middle East has long confronted the US with formidable challenges, which ultimately exceeded America s imperial capacities and sapped public support.

Pursuit of a Pax Democratia has long been embedded in American foreign policymaking.

Of course, with unemployment rising every month, it is difficult to remain popular for long.

It will also help to synchronize financial development between urban and rural areas, ultimately eliminating China s longstanding dual financial structure.

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We have long supported a permanent seat for Japan.

After the Fall of Constantinople, the Ottoman Empire entered a long period of conquest and expansion with its borders eventually going deep into Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa.

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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.

PRAGUE Scare stories have been an integral part of the global warming narrative for a long time.

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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.

It was long thought that cannabis was a relatively harmless drug, and that concerns about its use were overstated.

The Incas would not maintain control of the region for long, as the rapidly expanding Inca Empire was internally weak.

In some species, the female will eat the male after mating, but in any event, the male will not survive for long after mating.

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.

Recent studies have shown that there is no difference, however insulin should not be stored in intense heat for a long period of time.

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.

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

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.