• And it isn't really new because she's been the first lady in my life for a long time.

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  • "People underestimate how difficult it is to tell the truth when you have lived a secret life for a long time, " Coyle said.

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  • This was my whole life for a long time.

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  • "They had plans together and Oscar was happier in his private life than he had been for a long time, " he said.

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  • She had been feeling envious for a long time of the higher life of the state, where there was now heroism, renown, and vigor, and where the youth and strength of an old woman, vainly expended in deprivation and horror in the old days, were in demand again.

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  • The organization, then, is put on trial, along with the individuals at its helm and the lower-echelon soldiers, with the goal of breaking up the crime entity and putting the individuals away for a long time. (Life sentences are not unusual in RICO prosecutions.) Mobsters are dangerous, the thinking went, so we need a means of getting them off the street for good.

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  • Lexington is one of the few consistencies in my life and will call it home for a very long time.

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  • Zach McCue of Clean Ocean Action, a coalition of more than 130 environmental organizations in New Jersey and New York, said the manufacture of thin-film plastic bags consumes millions of trees and barrels of oil, takes up space in landfills for a long time and is harmful to marine life, especially birds and sea turtles that ingest the bags, or pieces of bags, or get entangled in them.

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  • E. appears later in life as well, because it takes a long time for the initial trauma to give rise to nerve-cell breakdown and death.

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  • Great joy welled up in my heart, and I stayed outside in the damp air for a long time, dreaming of how we could start our life anew someday.

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  • It felt for one long, loud bit of time like fear and sadness and life had been synthesized into a single massive group experience.

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  • The minimum wage has been a part of American life for so long now that very few citizens have any memory of a time when it did not exist.

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  • We all know, and have known for a long time, that in presidential elections, as in much of American life, the Ivy League has a leg up.

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  • The way these musicians take everything that's stirring about rock and pump it up until it's larger than life, and full of an electrifying creativity that's been missing for a long, long time.

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  • However, although Spaniards can expect to live for a long time, they are likely to spend the last 11.67 years of their life in poor health - longer than the continental average of eight years.

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  • Case in point: I have a long time friend who, for as long as I can remember, has gotten a raw deal in life, while giving so much.

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  • Sixteen years was a long time for anyone to endure a wife who had neither faith nor interest in the worldliness of marital life, he said, and she wondered if, by letting her go, he had finally outgrown his youth.

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  • It is a real personal pleasure for me to introduce him to you today, and an honor, and I might say a personal pleasure for me to call him I hope a life-long friend, someone that we'll be able to spend some time with, notwithstanding his other obligations, but to spend a lot of time with.

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