I don't think they lasted very long.

For example, chronic wounds often remain in the inflammatory stage for too long.

The issue of Security Council reform has been on the agenda of the General Assembly for a very long time.

When demes are isolated for a very long time they can become distinct subspecies or species.

I'm pretty tall.

Those actions would ensure a successful outcome to the withdrawal from Gaza and a serious resumption of negotiations on the issue of final status, which has been postponed for too long.

Well, I was very sorry to point out that the pure man's mind has, in fact, seen at long last what had been seen for a long time.

This has dragged on for far too long.

And biological pest control, by the way, or these good bugs that we are talking about, they've existed in the world for thousands and thousands of years, for a long, long time.

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.

Despite this, the country has for a long time been regarded as having a very tolerant society, which affords equal rights to all people no matter what their ethnic background.

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.

I have loved a weird and long story to learn what I know so far.

It is fortunate that we are becoming less of an idea leader because for too long the United States, and a handful of other developed countries, have shouldered the entire burden of research and development.

This means that if unprotected evacuated tube collectors are exposed to full sun for too long prior to being filled with cold water the tubes may shatter due to the rapid temperature shift.

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.

But there are still very lengthy procedures there that slow things down.

Chinese television dramas (simplified Chinese 电视连续剧) are similar to television dramas in North America, but are often longer, and portray a story too lengthy to be made into a movie.

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.

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.