Sports have long been part of popular culture.

VOA: special.2011.04.12

Evocative symbols of Europe's troubled past,such as the swastika, have long been illegal in a number of countries across the continent.

VOA: standard.2009.12.16

Mumbai-based film trade analyst and critic Komal Nahata says Bollywood film producers have long been enthusiastic about trying their hand at crossover cinema.

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

Independent labor unions have long been banned in China.

VOA: standard.2010.06.24

Workers have been placing long lengths of containment booms around the oil as winds and waves push it toward shore.

VOA: special.2010.05.01

But what I do remember was, at the end of that long, continuous coverage it must have been about two a.m.

VOA: special.2009.08.16

The American state of California is another area where long-spined sea urchins have been destroying kelp forests.

VOA: special.2009.08.25

Cupcakes have been around for a long time.

VOA: special.2010.04.12

I have been running my mouth long enough.

VOA: special.2010.06.20

So,to get a sense of what the regional moisture patterns have been, dryness and wetness over such a long period of time in great detail, I would call it a kind of victory for paleoclimate science."

VOA: special.2010.05.25

Brad Maione,with New York's Department of Taxation and Finance, says the agencies have been conducting long-term undercover investigations.

VOA: standard.2010.08.11

Indian Kashmir has been wracked by a two-decade-long separatist insurgency, although levels of violence have sharply dropped in the lpast five years.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

He says as long as there have been Indian people, there have been stories.

VOA: standard.2009.12.11

"And once we emerge from the immediate crisis, the long-term economic gains to communities that have been left behind in the digital age will be immeasurable."

VOA: standard.2010.07.02