How to Use a long time ago in a Sentence
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That was a long time ago, but that was the most painful thing to feel.
—Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 14 Jan. 2024
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And the thing is, the grounds for this were established a long time ago.
—Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2023
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Seems like a long time ago the way this season has gone.
—Dallas News, 23 Feb. 2023
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But, as Dabney says, the movie came out a long time ago.
—Phil Gast, CNN, 30 Apr. 2023
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One of Ford’s stories is one that was told to her a long time ago.
—Frank Vaisvilas, Journal Sentinel, 19 Jan. 2024
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Bill is at the precipice that the family crossed with Christy a long time ago.
—Robert Kolker, New York Times, 20 July 2023
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So is Texas baaaa … Uh, c’mon that became a cliché a long time ago.
—Dallas News, 24 Feb. 2023
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The Voyager spacecraft flew by Uranus a long time ago, in 1985.
—Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 5 May 2023
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We got used to not being played on the radio and stuff like that a long time ago.
—Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2023
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That long two-week wait for Oregon State seems like a long time ago.
—Joe Freeman, oregonlive, 16 Mar. 2023
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Then the other piece is shows like WordGirl, which launched a long time ago.
—Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Aug. 2023
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That industry, as of a long time ago, is now standing on the last of its legs.
—Jasmine Browley, Essence, 11 Aug. 2023
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Perhaps so, but the midterms are beginning to feel like a long time ago.
—Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2023
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And since the Universe is 13.7 billion years old, that is light from a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.
—Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 5 Dec. 2023
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Not in this country, anyway — just three days in a Pakistani prison a long time ago.
—John Koopman, Rolling Stone, 21 Sep. 2023
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Best Lego Deals for Toddlers Lego learned a long time ago that even the youngest amongst us want to get in on the building action.
—Dorian Smith-Garcia, Parents, 9 Oct. 2023
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The future comes from a long time ago passed to a new generation.
—Megha Kapoor, Vogue, 8 Mar. 2023
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The Fourteenth Amendment was ratified in 1868—a long time ago.
—Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 7 Feb. 2024
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That was all before the dreadful things that happened on 7th of October, which seems a long time ago.
—Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 17 Nov. 2023
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Experts and advocates say that leaving lead pipe should have stopped a long time ago.
—Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 10 July 2023
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If the pandemic could be ended by signing a piece of paper, this whole mess would have been over a long time ago.
—Karen Kaplanscience and Medicine Editor, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2023
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But, admittedly, that was a long time ago, all the way back in nineteen-dickety-two.
—Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2023
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The pier’s old Ruby’s Diner shuttered during the pandemic, and those hand pies were a long time ago.
—Jackie Burrell, The Mercury News, 5 Feb. 2024
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Mobile County has elected Black judges before, but it’s been a long time ago.
—al, 8 Feb. 2023
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Having become a household name in the 1980s, Mellencamp appears to have sowed his wild oats a long time ago.
—Marisa Sullivan, Peoplemag, 30 Aug. 2023
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This is about doing the right thing for our kids, our families, and our communities, and it should’ve been done a long time ago.
—Laura Schulte, Journal Sentinel, 9 Apr. 2024
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Not many people knew this, Suzuki said, but a long time ago Hayao Miyazaki went to Disneyland.
—Sam Anderson, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2023
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In many villages, the land is held by a collective, and the buildings are owned by longtime villagers, many of whom moved out of the neighborhood a long time ago.
—Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 17 Nov. 2023
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Minimum starting salaries for new teachers should have been mandated a long time ago.
—Baltimore Sun Media, Baltimore Sun, 11 Apr. 2024
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It was originally supposed to operational by 2015, but that expectation came and went a long time ago.
—Melvin Backman, Quartz, 7 May 2024
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