of long standing

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These treatments are administered according to professional protocols and guidelines of long standing, Baker says.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 2, 2023

Small businesses of long standing, and families who went into debt to launch, say, restaurants or bars or bakeries just before the pandemic, now have blighted futures — the caprice of rotten luck.

From Washington Post • Jun. 1, 2022

England supporters of long standing - and long suffering - were transported into an unfamiliar world as they watched Gareth Southgate's side cruise into the Euro 2020 semi-final in the most majestic style in Rome.

From BBC • Jul. 3, 2021

It’s a divide that places Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen — at 42 the youngest holder of her office but a Social Democrat insider of long standing — in a difficult position.

From New York Times • Oct. 22, 2020

It was a joke of long standing now, left from the time when we’d actually gone to school and celebrated days off.

From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn