These creatures became trapped as long ago as forty thousand years.

VOA: special.2010.04.07

If George Bush described himself not long ago as the decider, you might call Socrates the abstainer.

如果布什不久前,自称是决策者，则苏格格拉底便是疏离者。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

The attack began not all that long ago, really only as late as the seventeenth century.

攻击并未太慢开始，早在十七世纪就开始了。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Only the sound of insects filled the air as I walked through the empty town that summer day so long ago.

VOA: special.2009.07.04

- So what we're seeing is this is notes from 1902 -- he actually didn't publish any of this work or these ideas that led to Lewis structures until 1916, but his early class notes were used as evidence about how long ago he actually came up with the idea of it.

我们看到的这是，1902，年的讲义-,实际上他直到1916年才发表这些工作或者想法,后来发展成为了路易斯结构，但他早年上课的讲义却成为了他在多久之前,就产生了这个想法的证据。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Mr.Hawass is often described as a colorful leader who has brought Egypt's long-ago past to the attention of the world.

VOA: special.2011.03.08

Israel's Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon says peace talks could have resumed long ago, if it were not for the refusal of President Abbas, who is also known as Abu Mazen.

VOA: standard.2009.09.19