It's been forever since I didn't go to the beach.

I have been waiting here for a long time.

They have long become obsolete.

For too long, Africa has remained the backwater of development.

Apart from traditional diplomacy, they should have transmitted the feelings of its public to those on the other side of the border.

In fact, it had been a long time since I'd seen you.

I haven't been fishing in a long time.

Preventing sexual harassment in the police service has long been a priority.

On one hand, this is a long time coming.

It's been a long while since we had such fine weather.

I lost hope in freedom of the press in Jordan a long time ago.

UNODC is in the process of reviewing long outstanding completed projects with the aim of closing them financially and clearing long outstanding advances.

Some of us will have, for the first time in a long while, a full night's sleep unless our leaders keep us busy.

They've been around a long time, have been very important to coast communities.

But it has been a while since Indians and Chinese had much to do with each other.

Joseph Kony has been doing this for a very, very, very long time.

Immunization of children was provided long before independence.

King David lived to be 70, a long time in his era.

Practical measures and they have been on the table for a long time are important to that end.

What Pakistan is doing vis a vis Syria is one of the dumbest things Pakistan has done in a long time, and that s really saying something.

Change is definitely overdue in that respect. But what changes are required?

The international community and this Organization have long owed the Palestinian people its own State.

It has been a long time since the words opportunity and Middle East appeared in the same sentence.

Some people had been waiting for a long time, but he was letting the new ones in before them.

Well, for a long time, since I was in graduate school, I've been messing around making DNA chips that is, printing DNA on glass.

1983. Bob Dylan is 42 years old, and his time in the cultural spotlight is long since past.

And 10 years ago it seemed like I had a lot of time to convince Intel to work on this. Right?

It wasn t long ago that Turkey appeared to be a bright beacon of democracy and moderation in a region accustomed to autocracy and radicalism.

Women councilors have long demanded financial assistance per diem as well as space for themselves during sessions of their local bodies.

Holding a referendum would require considerable time and resources.

And so we can also now virtually gain access to this even more distant organ system that, from the skeleton alone, has long decomposed.

Turkey, as a country that had been a victim of terrorism, had long been drawing the attention of the international community to the serious nature of the problem.

Chad's mediation led to the conclusion of the N'Djamena and the Abuja agreements in Nigeria, where talks are still under way to find a comprehensive political agreement and to put an end once and for all to the crisis that has gone on for far too long.

And the Talmud saw this a long time ago, saying, We see things not as they are, but as we are.

It was not so long ago that many of our countries were in a similar position of political and constitutional deficiency.

UNICEF regularly reviews its long outstanding contribution receivables and takes appropriate action to collect.

My delegation is of the view that during the preparatory process we should adopt a clear approach for translating long stated commitments into appropriate and reliable means of implementation.

This election afforded an opportunity to return to the long standing issue of double citizenship and the related issue of dual voting rights for Bosnia and Herzegovina Croats.

Mystery number two Women have been in the Olympics for quite some time now, but one thing that's remarkable about all women sprinters they all suck they're terrible.

Because of its universal character, the draft resolution thereon had traditionally been adopted by consensus.

The attempt by Congolese civil society to foster democratic development may be the best thing that has happened in the country in a long time.

While knowledge of the plan was initially confined largely to Kenyan government officials, it was not long before its contours began to be revealed.

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

This happened a long time ago.

But its work is long since complete.