long-continued

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Although he vigorously argued as a legislator that Congress couldn’t create a national bank, after losing that debate he later accepted as president that the long-continued “decision of the nation” should “over-rule individual opinions.”

From Slate • Dec. 11, 2025

Such eccentricities, augmented by the strain of long-continued competition, vary from temporary insanity to tango dancing.

From Time Magazine Archive

Any long-continued dearth of novices would be as serious for the church as drought is for a farmer.

From Time Magazine Archive

The long-continued depression has brought unprecedented unemployment, a catastrophic fall in commodity prices and a volume of economic losses which threatens our financial institutions.

From Time Magazine Archive

The long-continued and costly wars with the sultan of Achin have during a series of years been a source of trouble to Dutch ministries.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" by Various