Others last for months or even years. There is no clear way of predicting at the present time how long this activity might go on for."

VOA: standard.2010.04.16

The antiquity of a law alone is no justification for its usage. Aristotle seems to reject you might say Burkean conservatism long before the time.

法律的古老性不能作为其用法的借口,亚里士多德似乎事先拒绝,你可能会说柏克式的保守主义,古老与传统并不能。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

so for about six, oh, no, it was nine hours a day, it's a long time ago.

每天要上六个，噢，不是，是九个小时的课，这都是很久以前的事情了。

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"That will involve keeping countries happy with the division of labor as regards carbon trading, as regards how much they want to hold back their own industrial development, even though they say particularly many of the EU's new countries that they were poor for a long time, no different than the Chinese, that they have a right to develop their economy, that it is the rich countries in Europe that are more responsible for climate change than they are and they should get special treatment in any kind of EU position."

VOA: standard.2009.10.29

And no doubt you would enjoy it for a very long time.

你们肯定也会享受很长一段时间。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

There was certainly a long period of time in which I found the personality theory, that is,the personality theory with a no branching rule, to be the better and more plausible theory.

有一段时间内，我觉得无分支理论下的，人格理论，是更好更合理的理论。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选