The circus has been popular for so long that it is not surprising that words and expressions connected with it are part of everyday speech.

VOA: special.2009.01.11

It's been so long that we've been planning and work has been so stressful lately.

我们计划好久了，最近的工作又有这么大的压力。

I've been 实战 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

So priests, ministers or pastors -- we still call them pastors -had long been referred to as shepherds.

因此牧师，神官或教会牧师-我们仍然这样叫他们,很长一段时间都以牧羊人来代指。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

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

And there was newspaper speach in that case so that's been an interest of mine for a very long time.

有报纸报道了这个事情,而这也是我长久以来关注的一个话题。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

So far,much of his week-long trip to Africa has been dominated by his rejection of condoms as a way to fight AIDS.

VOA: standard.2009.03.20

And too many companies can actually hang on for almost too long with too much money because there has been so much money funding these ideas.

而太多公司吊死在投资这棵树上了,浪费了大量时间和金钱,因为投入的金钱实在是过于多了。

斯坦福公开课 - 微软CEO-Steve.Ballmer谈科技的未来课程节选

However,it's long been on an endangered species watch list and so we won't be carrying that anymore.

VOA: standard.2010.07.14

I've been teaching long enough to know that doing derivations in class is equivalent to pouring ice water on the proceedings, so I do this sparingly.

我已经教了这么长时间书,所以我知道在课堂上讲推导,就好像泼冰水一样，所以我在讲这个的时候很小心。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

"For me,the best health news of the previous decade is the fact that the long overdue influenza pandemic has been so moderate in its impact .

VOA: standard.2010.01.18

So might have been seen long and that might be correct on some servers, but very, very often the data type called "long" is actually 4 bytes.

你们有可能看到过long，那个在一些服务器上是正确的,但是非常，非常普遍的是，那个叫做“long“的数据类型,只占有4个字节。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

(Speech) Gabe says Japan has been an ideal partner to the U.S.for so long.

VOA: standard.2009.11.11

So, I've been in school for a very long time.

所以，我当学生已经当了许多年了。

图书馆经常人很多 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

"We had been training long and hard for the mission, and we knew the baby was coming so it was easy to go on and do my tasks,"

VOA: standard.2009.11.30

"I was one of these teenagers, and so I know how difficult it can be to break this habit when it's been with you for a long time,".

VOA: standard.2009.06.22

So, how long have you been like this?

VOA: standard.other

"I think that the reason I have been able to live so long is so that I can tell the next generation about the equality of life and the importance of peace.

VOA: standard.2010.08.06

And I still believe that in Africa we have been going through this kind of pressure for a pretty long time, so I believe that when it comes we can handle it and lift the cup on Friday,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.15