The house was pulled down long ago.

那栋房子很久以前就被拆掉了。

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How long ago did you buy it?

这东西你是多久以前买的？

《牛津词典》

I learned long ago to avoid these invitations.

我很早以前就学会了回避这些邀请。

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Only the sound of insects filled the air as I walked through the empty town that summer day so long ago.

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Well, you know, it goes back to the beginning of the formation of the personal computer industry, which--that sounds like a long time ago.

嗯，你知道，这要追溯到,个人电脑产业的形成初期，听起来相当久远了。

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and I think that because... from a long time ago there were, it was just a very diverse city.

而且很久前，这里就是个多元性的城市。

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So, Silicon Valley dwellers, with the cheap land and wide-open spaces of a generation ago long gone you tell us: why stick around?

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To take a more recent example, Arundhati Roy, India's Booker-prize novelist, not long ago wrote a long and impassioned article in one of India's weekly magazines portraying capitalists, especially foreign ones, as plunderers.

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Actually, the dramatic trend to shorter holding periods began 50 years ago, long before flash-trading entered the vocabulary.

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