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

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

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.

Germans have long been among the most europhile of peoples, but their mood has gradually been turning against Europe and its common currency, the euro.

Strategically, however, China and the US will have to rely on one another for a long time.

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

We have long supported a permanent seat for Japan.

People are rational, Friedman said, so they will not work for long if they get nothing or next to nothing for it.

In fact, he had long promoted Mashai as his successor, but Khamenei curtailed his illegal efforts and has now put a stop to Mashai s candidacy altogether.

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.

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, in a currency union with huge differences in income and development levels, the short term can stretch out for a very long time.

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.

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.

For the foreseeable future, many points of the globe where UNHCR staff must reach people in need would remain high risk areas.

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.

If history is any indication, we will be waiting for a long time.