long gone

Long gone are the days of the Young British Artists movement: now a salt-and-pepper-haired filmmaker is the artist of the moment.

After all, al Qaeda and ISIS have sporadically fought with one another, and the Saddam regime is long gone.

But the invasion is over, Saddam Hussein is long gone, and the new threat in Iraq is ISIS.

By the time I was old enough to care about those things, he was long gone, leaving only stories behind.

Rockefeller Republicans have long gone the way of the woolly mammoth.

He was long gone thence to the bower where Elfrida sat with her maidens preparing for the morrow.

When centuries have elapsed and new rights have grown up, it is impossible to rectify the wrongs of times long gone by.

There was that about me to stir surprise; with those 14 generous days so long gone by, I will not gainsay it.

I was once fond of reading the Bible; ay, but those days were long gone by.

Meggy has long gone to the kirkyard, but the snuff-mull is still preserved.