long time

Example Sentences

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Van Jones talks for what seems like a very long time.

From Slate • May 8, 2026

As the data analyst G. Elliott Morris recently wrote, it will take a long time before people have fully adjusted.

From Salon • May 7, 2026

Because this transformation is thought to take a very long time, it is surprising to see it in galaxy XMM-VID1-2075 when the universe was less than 2 billion years old.

From Science Daily • May 7, 2026

For a long time after that, when something big happened, you’d call your friends and you didn’t say, “Put on the TV,” you said, “Put on CNN.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026

That was the best suggestion Duane had heard in a long time.

From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el