long-standing

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African manufacturers warned on Wednesday that a one-year extension to the long-standing duty-free deal with the United States was only a temporary "breather" and could jeopardise long-term investment.

From Barron's

Other long-standing arms control treaties have already fallen by the wayside.

From BBC

However, the relationship unfolded in a surprising way that challenges long-standing assumptions.

From Science Daily

He and his collaborators think it is possible that future gravitational wave signals will not fully align with general relativity, offering clues to long-standing mysteries.

From Science Daily

"We were very surprised by the results of this study as a long-standing research tradition suggested there would be differences in brain activity with episodic and semantic retrieval. But when we used neuroimaging to investigate this alongside the task based study we found that the distinction didn't exist and that there is considerable overlap in the brain regions involved in semantic and episodic retrieval."

From Science Daily