I have known Sami forever.

A long time ago, there was a bridge here.

Tom hasn't written to Mary in a long time.

Women play a major role in society and politics, and have for a long time.

The two parties have long known their respective obligations.

Leadership of that quality has been a long time coming in Japan.

Radical Islamists recognized this long ago and plowed their resources into schools.

The paragraphs in question undermined long standing agreement concerning the financing of peacekeeping operations.

MELBOURNE Scholars have long dreamed of a universal library containing everything that has ever been written.

Such an impressive sequence of events has not been seen for a long time in that troubled region.

Following the path of the steam engine long ago, progress is not doomed to be rare and erratic.

Representatives of the world's religions and beliefs have coexisted peacefully throughout history in Uzbekistan.

And what you find is something the Tarahumara have known for a very long time, that this can be a whole lot of fun.

But it didn t work, and it has been a long time since popular antipathy to banks has been so great.

NickKristof Maybe I'll try to sneak into Bahrain disguised as Kardashian's long lost brother. Or as a US weapons salesman.

Researchers have long known that the more intelligent the species, the larger the neocortex, the more likely it is to be deceptive.

From a very early age he amazed everyone with his extraordinary abilities to do mathematical calculations in his head without the use of pen and paper.

According to the United Nations, Rwanda has been tied to the conflict in Kivu for a long time, despite denials from President Paul Kagame s administration.

Multilateral lenders have long understood the importance of debt relief to poverty reduction.

As Europe learned long ago, hardship increases with the length of unemployment, as job skills and prospects deteriorate and savings gets wiped out.

The CCP s monopoly of public moral authority is long gone, and now its monopoly of political power is at risk as well.

Mr. Bertoux (France) said that the issue of impunity of human rights violators had long been of interest to his delegation.

It has some of the characteristics of a class conflict, with age old rulers who claim to own their servants, whom they consider to be inferior.

In fact, some intellectuals close to the right have long advocated an opening towards Europe s Muslim immigrants and their descendants.

In 2005, the Republic of Korea had abolished the long established family head system, an emblem of male dominated society.

Long time, no see.

Fire and humanity long ago began shaping each other s realm.

Mr. Begg (New Zealand) said that his country had long supported negotiations to reach consensus on the text for an international declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples.

Add to this the fact that the Arab world s nationalist regimes, which have calcified into militarized dictatorships, lost their popular legitimacy long ago.

UNICEF has a long history of supply support, both within country programmes of cooperation and increasingly as procurement services support to Governments and development partners.

I've been interested in food for a long time.

How are you doing? I haven't seen you for an age!

This happened a long time ago.

I should have done this years ago.

But its work is long since complete.

Add to it a desire to create a democracy from scratch in a region characterized by authoritarian government and that task becomes almost impossible.

Threats to cut oil supplies in order to change a country s foreign policy have a long history, particularly where the Middle East is concerned.

The US government is a huge customer for all kinds of software companies, just as it helped to build the airline industry long ago by contracting out postal service transportation.

NEW YORK Economists long ago put to rest the error that Adam Smith made when he argued that manufacturing should be given primacy in a country s economy.

This was a headline in a U.K. newspaper, The Guardian, not that long ago.

I will become a free photographer. I've dreamed about it for some time.

Likewise, economists have long noted that for countries gorging on capital inflows, there is a big difference between debt instruments and equity like investments, including both stocks and foreign direct investment.

Revitalizing the General Assembly is equally long overdue.

Indeed, techniques of deception have undergone enormous improvements since Orwell s time.

This is the first terrorist act that targets the Syrian civilians since a long time.