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long-standing
adjective as in existing for some time
Example Sentences
First, Palmer's girlfriend of long standing, Paula, drops by.
And so some long-standing policies have changed dramatically and in a hurry.
Republican fealty to the interests of the investor class has been long-standing.
Russian surveillance planes already fly over America, thanks to a long-standing treaty.
A mother in her forties wrote that she had long-standing problems which she was desperate not to transmit to her daughter.
The church has lately been much enlarged, and the long-standing rebuke no more exists.
The basophilic variety is less common, and is confined to long-standing severe myelogenous leukemia.
This letter indirectly points out two long-standing radical errors in engineering phraseology.
Even where there is a long standing friendship it is not well to visit uninvited.
If thus used two or three days in succession it will effectually loosen tartar, even of long standing.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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