There was a time not so long ago that the Maloofs made Sacramento the NBA's model of success.
There was a time not so long ago when going to a typical bar in Poland was an altogether different experience.
There was a time not so long ago when fans would be familiar with virtually every player picked in the NBA Draft.
There was a time not so long ago when the Vietnam War was widely viewed as the biggest misstep in American military history.
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As I said to my fellow leaders yesterday, there was a time not so long ago when few could have imagined holding a summit like this in Colombia.
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There was a time not so long ago, when the education system could tell little Freddie what to study and if he mastered that, he was set for life.
In a time not so long ago, in a galaxy not so far away, a little phenomenon was born that united the people of cyberspace through geographic services and social networking.
There was a time - not so long ago - that virtually no one had a mobile, yet everyone managed to get by.
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The U.S. was winning hands down for a long time, but not so much anymore.
"It's so wonderful after not playing tennis for such a long time, " she told BBC Sport.
Our source also said the phone's entered DVT (Design Verification Test) phase for some time, so it might not be long before we hear an official announcement in China.
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Wharton School Professor Jeremy Siegel has discovered that reinvesting all your cash dividends in more shares of the same stock (not so easy to do by the way) can mean over a long period of time a contribution of significant return.
So yeah, a long, long time -- read as, not in the next two years.
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"I've been in this job for a long time, so the things that look like defensive wounds turn out not to be, " said Richardson, who has worked in law enforcement and as a paramedic for more than 25 years.
"I followed Joe Cole for a long time when he was injured and when he started to play he was not so good, " Capello admitted.
And while Rehnquist's chief justiceship is viewed as extremely successful, in general promotions from within the court have not been so successful, largely because any group of nine people who live together for such a long time develop grievances and a promotion tends only to exacerbate them.
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.
Some countries have been through more loss within living memory and are better at grieving, but not so in Western Europe and the U.S. The economic healing process may take a long time.
Now in a new book Malkiel moves on to extol the virtues of global portfolio diversification--in index funds and actively managed funds -- at a time when many investors are licking their wounds from Southeast Asia, Russia and, not so long ago, Latin America.
The lawyer also pointed out that it was the first time Dr Ovens had met Mr Railton, so had not had the chance to build up a long term picture of his personality.
He is running low on all his stores and has very little fuel left, so that listening to the radio or making telephone calls to pass the time is not an option during the long hot days at sea.
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