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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
• And the thing is, the grounds for this were established a long time ago.
  — Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2023
• Seems like a long time ago the way this season has gone.
  — Dallas News, 23 Feb. 2023
• But, as Dabney says, the movie came out a long time ago.
  — Phil Gast, CNN, 30 Apr. 2023
• One of Ford’s stories is one that was told to her a long time ago.
  — Frank Vaisvilas, Journal Sentinel, 19 Jan. 2024
• Bill is at the precipice that the family crossed with Christy a long time ago.
  — Robert Kolker, New York Times, 20 July 2023
• So is Texas baaaa … Uh, c’mon that became a cliché a long time ago.
  — Dallas News, 24 Feb. 2023
• The Voyager spacecraft flew by Uranus a long time ago, in 1985.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 5 May 2023
• 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
• That long two-week wait for Oregon State seems like a long time ago.
  — Joe Freeman, oregonlive, 16 Mar. 2023
• Then the other piece is shows like WordGirl, which launched a long time ago.
  — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Aug. 2023
• That industry, as of a long time ago, is now standing on the last of its legs.
  — Jasmine Browley, Essence, 11 Aug. 2023
• Perhaps so, but the midterms are beginning to feel like a long time ago.
  — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2023
• 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
• Not in this country, anyway — just three days in a Pakistani prison a long time ago.
  — John Koopman, Rolling Stone, 21 Sep. 2023
• 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
• The future comes from a long time ago passed to a new generation.
  — Megha Kapoor, Vogue, 8 Mar. 2023
• The Fourteenth Amendment was ratified in 1868—a long time ago.
  — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 7 Feb. 2024
• 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
• Experts and advocates say that leaving lead pipe should have stopped a long time ago.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 10 July 2023
• 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
• But, admittedly, that was a long time ago, all the way back in nineteen-dickety-two.
  — Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2023
• 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
• Mobile County has elected Black judges before, but it’s been a long time ago.
  — al, 8 Feb. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Minimum starting salaries for new teachers should have been mandated a long time ago.
  — Baltimore Sun Media, Baltimore Sun, 11 Apr. 2024
• It was originally supposed to operational by 2015, but that expectation came and went a long time ago.
  — Melvin Backman, Quartz, 7 May 2024

Last Updated: 25 Aug 2024