It had long been a dream of the company's cofounder, engineer Alfred W. Fielding.
It had long been known that criminals from the south had put down roots in the richest parts of the country.
The minister said it had long been his view that "there should be a single integrated teacher training system in Northern Ireland".
Talabani added it had long been decided the whole country deserved a new one, and he said the national parliament would soon take up the issue.
It had long been speculated that Putin had no intention of relinquishing power and the elections were designed to provide the requisite modicum of constitutional legitimacy to accomplish that.
It had long been a sinecure for mediocre ministers.
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It had long been expected that a battle to replace William Hague might end up as a fight between Mr Portillo and Mr Clarke and that now seems a highly likely outcome.
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI), the central bank which regulates banking as well as setting interest rates, made clear its view that India's approach was superior to the discredited Western models that it had long been told to adopt.
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She said she could not think about it as it had been such a long time before.
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It had been long neglected in Cuba (though it was remembered elsewhere in Latin America).
Sure, there continued to be some mystifying close-mindedness one wonders if a certain ESPN NBA Insider will soon become an NBA outsider but Collins's announcement didn't provoke the type of meltdown it had long and ludicrously been predicted to provoke.
Mr Lloyd said although it had been "a long and somewhat convoluted process", he had been touched by the support and generosity shown to him by so many people in his Eastbourne and Willingdon constituency since the case had started.
She spoke in clipped, staccato sentences, shooting words from her mouth it was so good to see her boy, it had been far too long since his last visit, he should stop by more often.
It had been a long time since I had consciously considered this simple question.
It had been a long day and an army brew was just what the doctor ordered.
Urban Splash said it had always been a long-term project but could now take longer than expected.
Earlier, as the marriage ceremony was approaching, it had already been a long day for the wedding party and public alike.
He accepted they needed to "rekindle the partnership" but said the report found it had been a long and successful one.
" It had been so long I walked away, and the girl I was with said, "Why did you wait in line so long if you weren't going to the movie?
In an interview with DownBeat published in February 1975, Mingus praised Jimmy Knepper as "probably the greatest trombone player who ever lived, " and lamented how long it had been since they had worked together.
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It had been a long day in the NFL this was the Sunday prime-time game and there had already been two weeks and 14 games' worth of agitation about the NFL's inability to reach peace with its union officials.
Her hair had been cut like a boy's, but it had not been cut for a long time and was now not even parted.
In some cases, it has been on policies that taxpayers thought had been long ago cancelled.
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Professor Sir John Arbuthnott, the chairman of NHS Greater Glasgow, said it had been a "long and difficult process".
Speaking after the compensation hearing at Birmingham High Court, his widow, Penny Belcuore, said it had been "a long slog".
The recent assaults shortly followed a South Korea-US joint military exercise, but it was suggested they had been long in the planning.
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