How To Use Long time In A Sentence

For a very long time I loved the idea of writing but did very little - I published a few stories, and workshopped myself into submission.
Mostly, the ‘girl crush’ seems to be a vogue phrase for something that has been around for a long time: a fawning but nonsexual interest one woman has in another.
Not for a very long time has the discovery of new music so profoundly moved and excited me as the contents of this disc.
After such a long time in storage, all the oil will have drained to the sump.
This book will continue to generate excitement for a long time.

Without these sagacities, the brickwork of the tambour, in addition to taking a very long time so that the concrete could dry up and solidify, would surely have been too heavy to support the dome.
For a long time I daren't tell him I knew, and when I did he went wild.
A broken heart takes a long time to heal.
We had the tradition of preserving food and drink for long time consumption, by watching when the leaves began to fall and when there were changes happening to Nature.
For a long time, corporate executives felt that the Internet was only an academic toy for bored graduate students.
However, at the other end of the scale the worst site was at Ballybeg which had been a problem for a long time.
The deep feeling and my lover can with very long time.
Ever so a person, can in order to my every move and happy or frustrated for a long time.
For a long time it was thought to be a harmless substance, but we now have proof/evidence to the contrary.
Even ‘busy’ surgeons may take a long time to accrete enough performance data to allow valid comparison with their peers, particularly in low volume specialties such as neurosurgery.
I replied that we daren't go until we saw a reasonable chance (if I knew anything, we'd wait a long time for one), and so we bandied it to and fro and got no forrarder, and finally went to bed, played out. The Sky Writer
There was no doubt that there was a shortage of dan grades, but dan grades of the standard of the Hut took men of a certain calibre and a long time. Aikido in the UK – the Beginning « English Lesson Plans « Free Lesson Plans « Literacy News
It took a long time to chip a hole in the wall.
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Strictly just seems like a long, long time ago. The Sun
He was helping his wife who was still grieving and that New Year's Eve was the first night out they had had together for a long time.
She was there to be the volunteer coordinator of the women's centre, and unlike other government and contract workers, planned to be in the community for a long time.
For a very long time ecclesiastics were the only keepers and users of documents and books, and for these precious materials they created special although rudimentary structures: the library, the archive, the scriptorium.
This statistic will give you a good idea if your content is interesting and if your visitors are staying on your site for a long time and surfing.
I've been a long time fan of television, even going so far as to major in it in college.
For a long time we have kept a small globe of the world in our front bay window. A Channel of Peace
Even the lighting's perfect for noir and is a breath of fresh air as it's been a long time since someone has lit a film so fittingly.
Mr Hardman, I'm sorry, but your view of Little Lever is very different from mine. I took off my rose-coloured glasses a long time ago.
According to Ghanapur station circle inspector Muralidhar, a Maoist party member Gajerla Ravi alias Ganesh sent Rs 5 lakh to Mr Kondal Rao, who had been associated with the Naxals for a long time. Journalist Arrested
I wanted to keep my Kes, so I didn't have a hair cut for a long time.
They have been playing together for a long time, have a lot of experience and are a skilful side.
Tapan contemplated the cracked image of his own face in that mirror for a long time.
After a long time, having obtained with difficulty the consent of the timid Du Mont, I made Madame de Saint-Simon speak to the Duchesse de Bourgogne, who undertook to arrange the affair as well as it could be arranged. Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
It's been a long time since such a collection of punks, misfits and miscreants gathered together to worship such an influential act.
The inclusion of wine stymied him for a long time, though later he reviled himself for being so dim. A SONG AT TWILIGHT
The law allowing plaintiffs to recover legal fees in advocacy lawsuits has been on the books for a long time.
And probably that reflects the fact that these women, if they are good at long time lactating, probably will eat more to keep that lactation going.
For a long time she had been out of control, unable to cope with the everyday demands of her new royal role.
Yet as Liverpool prepare to face Manchester United in the FA Cup for a match in danger of being more poisonous than for a long time, football's long, progressive battle against racism is suddenly spotlit again. Onus on clubs to prevent ugly spectre of racism rearing its head again | David Conn
For a long time, what does happen seems almost aimless: scenic walks, music, casual flirtations.
Dems with a spine, gawd, that is the kind of change I've been wanting to believe in for a very long time. Feminist blogs in english » 2009 » August
I gulped as they smooched - for quite a long time, too - and wished more than anything that it was me he was kissing.
After a rather long time he returns and poses uneasily for his photograph.
There are some cute ideas here - like glasses that keep things cold for a long time.
Last year's figures were better, with one of the lowest growths in truancy for a long time, but still showed a slight increase.
They had a scene where they have the most horrible kinkiest sex I have ever seen in a film in a long time, where she would punch him in the face while riding him and whatever. Yeti: A Love Story (2006)
It simulates lots of tasty, infectable machines, and when they're probed by a worm, it grabs the worm's network connection and holds it -- for a very, very long time. Boing Boing: September 16, 2001 - September 22, 2001 Archives
He'd come all the way on a poor nag who should have been retired to the pastures a long time ago.
My thought now is that it was all a very long time ago, in a much more rigid social climate than today, and there is not much sense in trying to hush it up any more.
The inclusion of wine stymied him for a long time, though later he reviled himself for being so dim. A SONG AT TWILIGHT
As a Quaternary and glacial geomorphologist, I agree that geological training is important to understand climate and associated landscape change over long timescales. Some Geologists at Quelccaya « Climate Audit
You see, up to this point, we just knew that Armstrong (real name Aram) and the Eternal Warrior were brothers and that they had both lived for a really long time. Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources
Jack and Mary had been married for a long time but gradually drifted apart until they separated.
On top of which the actress is awful, unwatchable, the most slovenly girl to appear on the screen in a long, long time.
I for a long time, but at last I awoke from my heedlessness and, returning to my senses, I found my wealth had become unwealth and my condition ill-conditioned and all I once hent had left my hand. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
But the defensive headset is something we needed a long time ago to even things out. Can you hear me now? Radio calls in NFL defenders' helmets
That's the best news I've heard for a long time!
It was a long time since I had heard from her, although her husband had kept me abreast of their news. Times, Sunday Times
That that personage now in possession of the bishop of Bristoll Deane of Yorke (it being an indowment of the said Deanerie) such slender care hath bene had by him for the preaching of the Gospell unto the said parishioners, and giving them that Christianlike and necessarie instru [~c] on which is fitting, as for a long time they scarce had any sermon at all amongest them. The Evolution of an English Town
After studying for a long time , we make a conclusion that the DIDSs are always made up of six parts:Collector, Analyzer, Coordinator, Manager, Responsor and UI.
It was a long time ago, but it left an indelible memory. Times, Sunday Times
It still represents a paltry amount to live on, but is nevertheless something which should have been done a long time ago.
John McCain is a senile, old fool who lost what little mental abilities he had a long time agon. howie Levin takes on McCain over Afghanistan strategy
A venerable and hitherto decorous old deacon of Roxbury not only left the church when the hated bass-viol began its accompanying notes, but he stood for a long time outside the church door stridently "caterwauling" at the top of his lungs. Sabbath in Puritan New England
Long time periods do not help the evolutionary theory if biochemicals are destroyed faster than they are formed.
I stood there for a long time watching her as she breathed and snuffled and murmured occasionally. THE EXECUTION
You know, someone should tell these people that they lost the civil war a long time ago and that their redneck bigotries are not welcome in the United States of America. Think Progress » Virginia attorney general instructs state colleges to stop protecting gay students from discrimination.
The unusual surface textures of fossil cycads have been interesting curiosities to collectors for a long time.
By Joerg Colberg on January 28, 2004 5: 36 PM sublimate is one of those weblogs that I should have linked to a long time ago. coincidences Conscientious: Weblogs: January 2004 Archives
And this trade was for a long time monopolized by Shanxi merchants.
The red-clawed seagulls circled for a long time over the shell of the upturned ship.
No doubt you will both treasure your choice of a vintage engagement ring for a long time to come as they ooze character with a wide variety of styles, shapes, stones and carats that will certainly bedazzle, shimmer and shine. SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 1031
For a long time, I couldn't hear anything but the ring of a slot machine behind me.
I'm shocked that it has come to this but I suppose the evidence has been there for a long time that this day would come.
The gates take a relatively long time to close, so if the person before you moves at a normal rate, you should be able to go in with him/her.
I personally do not get any pleasure from seeing people locked up for a long time, but these people were cruel and vindictive. Times, Sunday Times
DW: Well, there's definitely one in Taos that we've been hearing about for quite a long time, but I just feel like this is going to take off. Mike Ragogna: A Tiger Suit, Junip & Great Companions: Conversations with KT Tunstall, Dar Williams, and José González, plus a KT Video Exclusive
I am waiting for a person to accompany me for a long time.
A couple of my other films have been censored, but that was a long time ago. Times, Sunday Times
The Brahmins in India possessed for a long time the theocratical power; that is to say, they held the sovereign authority in the name of Brahma, the son of God; and even in their present humble condition they still believe their character indelible. A Philosophical Dictionary
In my opinion the 870 in 12 gauge is the only gun a would need unless he was an elk hunter but you get the picture .. these guns last forever and i mean a LONG time so make sure you make a decision on your size and what you can handle ... happy hunting and good luck choosing the right 870 +1 Remington 870
I've heard a good astronomical theory that the moon was created by a planetoid crashing into the earth a long time ago, possibly carrying with it the seeds for life itself.
Some of the words are ones you'd expect to have been in for a long time -- wasn't chav already in? and chib, diddy, doobrey, DVD, FYI, irie, nadger, Tripitaka? OED words added
For a long time, the Alexander polynomial was one of the few tools topologists had for telling knots apart.
His car stood in the garage for a long time, with thick dust.
With all of that being said, I believe it was about three and half minutes into the film that I realized that The Iron Ladies was going to be one of the most entertaining, side-splitting movies that I would have watched in a long, long time.
It takes a long time to work around to mentioning a possible increase in pay.
Office he lived long time after, as a loyall servant to the Church, and an honest thankefull friend to the Lord Abbot of Clugny. The Decameron
The principles of magnetic recording have been around for a long time.
I suffered for a long time, as did, to a lesser degree, my brothers and sisters -- none of whom had ever tried to stop me from shooting the arrows, and some of whom had actually assisted me in achieving near orbital heights with them. News Quiz: How Should You Properly Dispose of Ammo?
Scholars have been aware for a long time of a certain “disconnect” between the version of God preached by Judaism and Christianity—an all-knowing, omnipresent, and all-powerful deity—and the way in which God is depicted in, especially, some of the earliest parts of the Hebrew Bible. In the Valley of the Shadow
Naturally, I got to meet up with quite a few of my Army buddies, some of whom I have not seen in a long time.
For a long time MEN Hao-ran has always been regarded as an eremitic poet, but in recent years some scholars deem that MEN Hao-ran had a strong mind of being an official.
Relationships once broken in this way may take a long time to heal.
Everywhere in the city the tension is papable, we have always had the sense that the jim crow mentality was beneath the surface but with all the racially devisive inuendo being put out by Mccain/Palin the rippling currents of animosities that haven’t been felt here covertly for a very long time are boilng beneath the surface. Evening Buzz: 18 days to go
Well done everyone, it was the best five quid I have spent in a long time.
It is a time which will haunt Sonia for a long time to come - the slowest ever in her career since entering senior ranks.
For a long time the U.S. dollar was unchallenged as the world's reserve currency.
They advise potential investors to deal only with reputable jewellers and dealers who have been in the business for a long time.
I think I could go a long time without boring myself, though I deeply regret the absence of fishes and shellfishes, beans, apples, mushrooms, olive oil, garlic, herbs, sugar, peppers and spices. Desert Island Potato Salad
August seems a very long time ago. The Sun
One hour is a long time to be lighting up an empty room. Times, Sunday Times
We are always in a hurry to be happy...; for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune. Alexandre Dumas
People can survive an extremely long time on a restricted diet. The Sun
The reata in those days was nearly always made of plaited raw hide, and often made by the boys themselves, though a good reata required a long time to complete and peculiar skill in the making of it. Ranching, Sport and Travel
I hate boys," she exploded, "they're the worry of our lives, Car'line and mine, -- they get into our garden, and steal all our fruit, and they hang on behind our chaise when we ride out, and keep me a-lookin 'round an' slashin 'the whip at 'em the whole livelong time; O my -- _boys! _ Five Little Peppers Abroad
The celebrity endorsement has started since a long time ago.
Bushnell's Yardage Pro family of rangefinders has been around a long time.
The displacement of subject theory out of philosophy occurred a long time ago. The Times Literary Supplement
In fact baking or cooking for a long time in pressurized hot water can help to neutralize the toxic aconitum in raw aconite.
The trick is to let the onions cook for a long time over a lowish heat before lowering on the pastry lid. Nigel Slater's onion tart recipe
This situation has developed over a long time
Even interring his father took a long time. Times, Sunday Times
As the potassium decays into another element, argon, over incredibly long timespans, dates could be established.
For a long time anybody who wanted to put on muscle mass was recommended to eat lots of meat. Shape Your Body, Shape Your Life
In our submission, your Honour, there are no adverse consequences because the draftsperson in New South Wales has effectively been ignoring the majority decision in Wynyard for a very long time.
English clubs have had goalkeeper coaches for a long time. The Sun
A year seems like such a long time to be away,so we will miss you a lot,and we hope you will miss us,too.
Especially IE setting once after set, the likelihood won't be changed for a long time, because this is inferior to thorough anchor ice sealing!
For a long time her mother and her grandmother had hardly been on speaking terms.
By any definition of the word "decency" it's been a long time since NYT > Home Page
Even though I didn't know I could sense "yumminess" with my tongue, there are people out there who have known for a long time: food scientists and corporate food conglomerates. Mark Strausman: What You Don't Know About Your Tongue Might Be Making You Fat
Been long time seen rain this hard. Times, Sunday Times
Smiling, not because happiness too long, is too long time forgot to sorrow.
It was just like a Hollywood movie and it was something that people in England have not seen for a long time and I don't think that anybody had had that kind of panoply of grandeur. CNN Transcript Nov 4, 2005
I was supposed to have been married to my long time girlfriend, companion, lover and best friend of many years this past fall.
I was ploughing one day, some long time after the mare died, with what we call a buzzard plough. Slave Life in Georgia: A Narrative of the Life, Sufferings, and Escape of John Brown, A Fugitive Slave, Now In England
The proposal to build the Devanhalli international airport too has taken a long time to fructify and even today the progress is bogged down with some technicalities, though there is no doubt about its becoming a reality before long.
Brandon's been a friend of mine for a really long time, but Eric Stephenson is the one who masterfully orchestrated the deal to co-publish King City with TokyoPop and Image Comics," Keatinge said. More from TokyoPop + Image on King City’s return | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment
He should be the one that should go to jail for a very long time as far as I am concerned. cony Cheney: Investigating CIA interrogations a political move
Family GuyFamily Guy inherited the dysfunctional family mantle - or perhaps mantlepiece, since it's still all suburban - and pushed the boundaries further than The Simpsons has in a long time, frequently offending at least eight separate special interest groups in one 23 minute show. The Flintstones celebrate 50 year anniversary with a Google doodle
A stack of hay will self-ignite if it stays for a long time.
The suddenly-famous Airbus (which happens to be the most comfortable kite Air Canada has ever owned) has been lurking in the background for a long time.
Things are much much better now, my insurance is awesome, and I have a pump and just got cgs, my blood sugars are pretty good (except in my last a1c, but in a few months, I will put a better number back up there), but it has taken me a long time to get over a lot of the fear and anger from that experience. Discussion Forum - TuDiabetes - A Community for People Touched by Diabetes
The law allowing plaintiffs to recover legal fees in advocacy lawsuits has been on the books for a long time.
Suck for a long timeSmokeCan hurt the whole hormone system of the body more, affect ovarian function, cause the infecund disease of endocrine reason.
The natives used to bury these bronze manillas and after being in the ground for quite a long time they would quickly burnish up again.
But that is a long time in the life of a car dealership. Times, Sunday Times
It's been a long time since I heard a blackbird's song in the evening.
And on the evidence of this insipid display it will be a long time yet before they will need to get out the silver polish again. The Sun
We are always in a hurry to be happy...; for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune. Alexandre Dumas
We have been researching the market for a suitable place for a long time.
Carl said nothing and Thomas, apparently exhausted from the effort of speaking lapsed into silence for a long time.
The local zoning authorities for a long time just outright banned big box stores, stores of over something like 10,000 square feet.
For a long time after, not a word passed between us—both of us knew what we wanted to say, but neither of us ever said it. Dancing with the Devil
Anyone who has gone through rehab knows the process takes a long time. The Sun
Another discussion I had with a friend of mine a long time ago I made the apperception, I said, "blacks have never been mousetrapped. Oral History Interview with Hylan Lewis, January 13, 1991. Interview A-0361. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
For a long time we wanted to believe that here we were dealing with abnormal monsters, psychopaths, or mentally defective, even psychotic individuals.
We lost each other a long time ago. The Sun
Labor shortages were not going to be driving up wages for a long time to come.
Having worked a long, long time ago in the desktop publishing business with one of the cheaper programs that was on the market at the time (Ventura Publisher long before it was acquired by Corel), that type of hyphen is put in as a conditional hyphen, not a hard hyphen. ‘Kraut-hammer.’ Very droll, Newsweek. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState
I had hoped to compose for Lata bai for a long time.
It was for sixteen-year-olds at an all-girls school (like hers, long time ago, in Secunderabad, St. Ann's) with a crush on a cricket player (like Imran Khan, it was almost natural to have a crush on him). For the Sake of the Boy
Being considered as "common illness" or "frequently occurring disease", concrete rifts perplexed bridgework technician for a long time.
It takes a long time to work around to mentioning a possible increase in pay.
He'd been ill for a long time, and his skin was like parchment.
Russian intelligence will take a long time to quieten the paranoia of the West.
The outcome of the book, while almost overwhelmingly dystopian, is also the most fascinating perspective on the nature of humanity in a very long time. Are There Any SF/F Books You Could Not Finish?
I captured a "secesh" horse found running loose, -- for my own horse had been killed and I had been afoot quite a long time, -- mounted him, and as son as the state of the contest would permit, I rode to Major Sturgis, informed him of Lyon's death, and told him he must assume the command, which he accordingly did. Forty-Six Years in the Army
Change can only be achieved by the people in a combined effort with demonstrations, petitions, personal crusades, and newspapers being brave enough to report fraud and embezzlement, that will lead ultimately to the guilty parties being put in the "slammer" for a very long time. Pestiside.hu
It is a long time, probably beyond the memory of man, since the percentage sold of tups has been as high.
One day we will succeed; it may take a long time, but finally, my generation the first global generation will fully understand the value of nature.
It may be a long time before Westerners reach the fabled city again. The Sun
Litus had waited for a long time, waiting for one of the two to return, to relieve him from his watchful duties.
They take a long time to reach maturity. Times, Sunday Times
When I've suffered from paranoia, it has lasted a long time, not just "transiently" and "under-stress". Www.mentallyinteresting.org.uk | Pole to Polar: The Secret Life of a Manic Depressive
We don't need a new law; we need to find the executives who did this and throw them in the pokey for a long time.
She keened for a long time at her mother's funeral.
That said, backward-compatibility is a relatively new feature for consoles - for a long time, buying a next-generation machine meant leaving your software library behind.
It will have a cutaway section so you can see how the crater was originally shaped because it's got a lot of silt and infill in it - 50,000 years is a long time.
As a traditional tool, the effect of legal reserve requirement on monetary policy has been researched and cared for a long time.
And that, in some cases at least, this cave residence ended a very long time ago, we are assured, for since then a great thickness of stalagmite, which is deposited with extreme slowness, has spread over the lower cave deposits and sealed them in. Man And His Ancestor A Study In Evolution
"Creating a network specifically for the LGBT community is something we've wanted to do for a long, long time, and it's an idea we feel is overdue," says the network's chairman.
Hardtack was one of the food supplies they packed because it could be kept for a long time without spoiling.
The fame of whose name made all men quake and tremble, and who then had commaunded all the troupe of the Gentlemen of his Court, to go and seeke the forlorne louers, so long time lost and vnknowen. The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1
A telephone operator needs the patience to sit for a long time.
All about us billowed a profusion of wild beauty; and though for a long time there was nothing alive in sight except a flock of bright pink sheep, my stage-managing fancy called up knights of the round table, "pricking" o'er the downs on their panoplied steeds to the rescue of fair, distressed damsels. Set in Silver
The teacher had almost seen it that time as he turned around to write something on the dry erase board, that had long time ago replaced the blackboards.
It seems to me that it's been a long time since that was a working metaphor among diocesan clergy.
He stared out the port a long time before he heard her come below.
It has been a long time since we have seen an Indian wicket-keeper who dives headlong for catches.
For a long time alpha far exceeds beta, and the herd is at peace. INSIDE THE TORNADO: MARKETING STRATEGIES FROM SILICON VALLEY'S CUTTING EDGE
Alcinous to receive them as comrades; and there in the island long time they dwelt with the Phaeacians, until in the course of years, the The Argonautica
A few women inspect a gender to be bawdy and feculent content, be in a gender for a long time to check status, also can weaken the sexual desire of oneself greatly.
They're not necessarily resort communities, you know, some snowbirds go down there and there's long time residents live down there.
The scoundrel was on his way to the fazenda with the idea of consummating a vile scheme of extortion which he had been preparing for a long time. Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon
He said his goodbyes knowing that a long time would pass before he would see his child again.
I will go ahead and pay their stinking ransom so that I can keep my "earthlink" email addess, but the foul taste of Martian cyber torture will not leave my craw for a very very long time. BEWARE THE EARTHLINKS
Although she wanted to break up with him a long time ago, she is really hurt and heartbroken which is understandable.
A “long time” in the world of a thieving little shite is approximately 2 hours and 7 minutes. on September 8, 2009 at 6: 16 pm thespecialone Citizen Focus – meet the “customer”. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
His most industrious display for a long time. The Sun
We give preference to those who have worked with us for a long time.
A couple of my other films have been censored, but that was a long time ago. Times, Sunday Times
Being slow and ponderous, it always took him a long time to reach a new idea. Little Lord Fauntleroy
The EDS would also need to store fuels for a long time while being refuelled. NASA Presidental Transition Action Item Log - NASA Watch
I'm thinking, somewhat critically, it sure has been a long time since she began talking about opening this community centre to serve the scads of immigrant kids in St. Jamestown, when she pulls me out of the dank reverie.
For a long time, he was the butt not only of his mentor's jokes but of critics like Macaulay, who thought him a fool.
Property is an extremely illiquid asset due to the long time and costs involved in selling a property.
The invention discloses a composite stabilizing agent for preserving a liquid acid protease, which can preserve the activity of the acid protease for a long time under the liquid condition.

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