If the investigation was not compromised in any way by what came out last night, why didn't it come out a long time ago?

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing by Deputy Press Secretary Bill Burton

Many people won't like these words but I believe this started a long time ago - size matters.

BBC: Sir Terry Matthews

It's an issue that has been debated by academics for a while, though many wish Mr Osborne or his predecessor had sorted it out a long time ago, when the move didn't look quite so convenient.

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"If they didn't like what I was doing, they would have cut me a long time ago, " Ayanbadejo said.

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We still don't have (JJ) Redick. (Christian) Laettner left a long time ago.

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"To quote my company commander at the time when I arrived in 1975, he said 'if we hadn't have introduced internment three or four years ago I reckon we'd have gone home a long time ago, '" Mr Mercer said.

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