"It's a big deal. How big a deal you have to measure piece by piece but clearly it is the first major change in our health care system since nineteen sixty-five so that's a long time coming."

VOA: special.2010.03.27

So it took a long time for the twenty books that we have to get settled on. And we'll talk about how that actually happened,also,still.

所以很长一段时间之后那27本书,才最终被确定下来，我们会谈及,那是如何实现的。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

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。

纽约的人们 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

So if you can somehow upload a message into DNA, it could last a very,very long time,indeed."

VOA: standard.2010.04.16

If we weren't so pressed for time, I kinda wanna see how long we could get away with this before it gets awkward, but that, in fact, is an infinite loop t hat's hopefully deliberate.

如果有时间，我想看看,我们需要花多长时间解决这一问题，事实上，它是我故意,使用的无穷循环。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

"Because you do this little process like I am doing right here right now so slow and it takes me long time to do everything."

VOA: standard.2010.07.06

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

"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 what I'm saying now is it took a long time for this to solidify. And one of the things we think made it solidify was the development of codices,a codex.

所以这花了很长一段时间,才得以统一，我们觉得,使它统一的是抄本的出现。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

"So you have to surveil them a long time until you can say 'okay,maybe he's kind of a suspicious person, so maybe we should investigate it a longer time or not.'

VOA: standard.2010.07.27

So, the process of developing a vaccine occurred over a long period of time.

疫苗的发展经历了很长一段时间

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

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

It's still--they can make losses for a long time before they're in trouble, so presumably there won't be a problem, but in principle there could be and so that's the kind of issue that we have now.

在陷入困境之前的很长一段时间内,他们可以承受亏损,也可以假设不会有任何问题发生,但是原则上讲是有可能会出问题的,这就是我们面临的现状

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

But she said it is time to go beyond disaster relief to long-term development to counter a so-called "youth tsunami" of an estimated one million Haitian young people who will enter the job market during the next five years.

VOA: standard.2009.04.14

So like, I had blonde hair for a long time. I've just dyed it red.

我以前的头发是金色的。我刚染成红色。

忘不了的生日礼物 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

So I don't know, I actually spent a long time random stuff.

我就是喜欢编程，花了很多时间，设计了许多程序。

斯坦福公开课 - 扎克伯格谈Facebook创业过程课程节选

Let's say oftentimes orchestral musicians, they're sitting there and they're not playing so they have to be able to count for a long period of time.

时常,管弦乐团的乐手们坐在那里,却不需要演奏,因此他们不得不打很长一段时间的拍子

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

So it will be devastating for a very long time.

所以那会让人难过很久。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

If they're failing they should cut their dividend, but companies are reluctant to do that because it looks bad, so they hold off for a long time, not cutting.

如果效益不好他们应该减少红利,但是公司不愿意这样做,是因为这样显得很糟糕,所以他们一直拖延着不去减少红利

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选