The seventy-one year old cried tears of joy as she told the crowd the award was "a long time coming" but worth the wait.

VOA: special.2011.02.18

When do they start thinking of themselves as French? And this has been hotly debated in the literature for a very long time.

他们什么时候开始觉得自己是法国人了,这曾在文学界,引起长时间热烈的讨论

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

It's just that as Methuselah,I live a very,very,very long time.

就和玛士萨拉一样，我活了非常非常久。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

"Insurgencies last a long time." "But,as you look at how long it took to turn Iraq around, it was about 18 months.

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

Well according to one school of thought ; there isn't anything particularly revolutionary about monotheism; and the classical account of the rise of monotheism, that has prevailed for a very long time, runs as follows, and I have a little flow chart here to illustrate it for you.

曾经某个思想学派告诉我们,一神论其实没有什么独特的新颖之处;,而它却能飞速崛起，备受重视，盛行了很长一段时间，正如我下面要提到的，我这儿有一些图来帮助你们理解。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

(Speaking) Institute director Eric Leonhardt says he's had his eye on the dairy herd as a source of transportation fuel for a long time.

VOA: standard.2010.02.23

It used to be the case-- I forget how long drive-in windows have been around, certainly as long as you guys can remember-- but there was a time when drive-in windows didn't exist.

曾经是这样的情况,我忘了免下车餐厅已经出现多久了,当然可能自打你们记事时就出现了,但是在免下车餐厅尚未出现的时候

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

But as several analysts have stressed "eventually" can be a very long time.

VOA: standard.2009.09.04

It's kind of unsettling because we like to know what things are, but at the same time it's not really a big problem because as long as we know about the fact that a certain notion of literature exists in certain communities we can begin to do very interesting work precisely with that idea.

可能会有点让人不安，因为我们总想知道事物的定义，但知不知道,实际上问题不大,只要我们知道在特定群体中对文学有特定的认识,我们就能在这种认识上做文章。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

"And it's a tough mission, but I think it is an attainable mission as long as we take the time to make sure that the mission is out there and laid out pretty well.

VOA: standard.2009.11.16

"Since that time we've really learned that as close as they are to human species, they're not close enough for any real scientific outcomes for drug testing.I think like that" That's Elizabeth Kucinich, wife of U.S. Congressman Dennis Kucinich, she is a long-time animal welfare advocate and serves as director of public affairs, for the Physicians Committee "Over 80 different HIV-related vaccines have worked in chimpanzees but none have proven effective in human beings.

VOA: standard.2010.02.16