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How to use the word long-time in a Sentence?

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These are fairly common in Europe where geothermal is used in a district system, but not so much in the US, there’s a lot of competition from other energy sources, mostly oil, gas and coal. There’s also a lack of knowledge about this technology in the US even though it’s been around for a long time.

– Arlene Anderson

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12 months ago

I just want to make very clear, people who experience a same-sex attraction are not responsible individually or solely for the atmosphere of the sexual revolution, you know it. It’s a long time coming. It came after no-fault divorce. It came after we implemented very permissive policies on contraception. The sexual revolution has gone through several phases. We just happen to be at the phase now where same sex marriages is at the fore.

– Matthew Kacsmaryk

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1 year ago

I’m more concerned than I’ve been in a long time.

– Matt Anderson

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1 year ago

For the most part, we are on the right track for Malaysia – it’s a reform that has been a long time coming, we should not deny the fact that the state is killing someone and whether the state should have this kind of power … having the mandatory punishment abolished is a good time for us to start reflecting about it.

– Dobby Chew

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1 year ago

Typically, with these infections, because they take a very long time to grow and they’re a little bit more fastidious, you need to treat them for a longer period of time, sometimes several months, so she’s doing better. I wouldn’t say 100%, but she’s doing a lot better than she was initially.

– Jordan Mah

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1 year ago

It’s really exciting. Just like you said, everybody has been talking about this matchup for a really long time, i think it’s just a great game for women’s basketball. I know there’s going to be a lot of people in the crowd, a lot of people watching the game. Just super excited to be in that environment.

– Aliyah Boston

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We have to hold Big Tech companies accountable for pushing addictive platforms on our kids and exposing them to a world of inappropriate, damaging content, these actions are a long time coming. We have watched over the past decade as one social media company after another has exploited our kids for profit and escaped government oversight.

– Sarah Huckabee Sanders

Found on CNN
1 year ago

For example, Sen. Rick Scott of Florida, the guy has been saying for a year – for a long time that he wants to sunset Social Security and Medicare every five years, what that means is: Every five years it comes up, if you don’t vote for it back in existence again with the same – exactly like it was, it goes away. Or you can reduce it. You can do whatever you want. But every five years, it has to be voted on. Now he says, ‘Never mind’. Don’t need to do that.

– Joe Biden

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1 year ago

Especially early on the pandemic, you didn’t get to say goodbye. You didn’t get to be in the hospital. You didn’t get to hold their hand. That loss impacts you dramatically and sits with you for a really long time, when that loss is for a young person, someone who’s losing a parent, it’s a really different kind of loss.

– Christopher Kocher

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1 year ago

If you’re taking a long time to consume things and they’re going stale.

– Shara Kay

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1 year ago

It is expected that application into humans takes a long time, maybe 10 years or more. Even if it is applied, we never know whether the eggs are safe enough to produce (a) baby.

– Katsuhiko Hayashi

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1 year ago

They didn’t have the information for quite a long time on what was on the train.

– Jennifer Homendy

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1 year ago

This moment has been a very long time in the making, yet they have shown such patience and optimism through this process. And that spirit of cooperation and thoughtful, respectful dialogue has been so important at arriving at this point in such a united fashion.

– Anthony Albanese

Found on CNN
1 year ago

That’s the question before the Australian people, nothing more, but nothing less, this moment has been a very long time in the making, yet they have shown such patience and optimism through this process. And that spirit of cooperation and thoughtful, respectful dialogue has been so important at arriving at this point in such a united fashion.

– Anthony Albanese

Found on CNN
1 year ago

You meet someone traveling, they see you as your most authentic self, you’re in such a vulnerable/authentic state that when someone actually is let in at that state, a lot of times they know me better than people I’ve known for a long time.

– London Hollie

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This is a conversation that a lot of people are used to having you know, especially some of our old-timers have been dealing with this a long time and they get it. We have people that live along the river and when the flood comes, they boat in and out.

– Davenport Mayor Mike Matson

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1 year ago

There has been a long-time failure by HISD and the victims of that failure are the students.

– Greg Abbott

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1 year ago

That moment when you solve the mystery that you’ve been living with for a long time, that’s what motivates me, to finally get traction on her, that’s the first step to tell her story. It was a very special moment.

– Megan Smolenyak

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Those of us who work in the maternity care space have known that this is a problem in our country for quite a long time. And each time the new statistics come out, we’re hopeful that some of the efforts that have been going on are going to shift the direction of this trend. It’s really disappointing to see that the trend is not going in the right direction but, at some level, is going in the worst direction and at a little bit of a faster rate, in the health care system, we need to accept ultimate responsibility for the women who die in our care.

– Elizabeth Langen

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I honestly look at all of you with such envy because you get an opportunity to try all the different roles, but we only get that opportunity maybe once in a long, long time.

– Allyson Riggs/A24 Yeoh

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Prestwick is a really terrible place to store an airplane, because it’s cold and wet and rainy and moist, not somewhere you would plan to keep them for a long time. Maybe they were just planning to fix them, but then the other events happened.

– Connor Diver

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The way states do this can either be lightning fast or take a long time.

– Richard Auxier

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1 year ago

I’ve been doing this for a long time and it’s very rare to see a climate issue go viral.

– Alaina Wood

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I believe woke ideology is pernicious. I believe what’s at stake is not just ‘My policies are good,’ we should not all be suffering under the cloak of wokeness. … This issue with Disney is a good example of that. … They were basically a law unto themselves, and they got away with it for a long time because they were so powerful. They were the 800-pound gorilla, but they made the mistake of trying to stick their nose into sensitive matters involving children, involving education, and involving family.

– Ron DeSantis

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1 year ago

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