The last time the United States Education Department asked young people how long they took to finish college was in two thousand one.

VOA: special.2009.07.23

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

but in that time, I'm hoping to set up my life such that one day, in the long term,

但长期以来，我希望有一天能够掌握自己的生活，

事业和人生都重要 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

One critic calls it the first television show in a long time that is just plain fun.

VOA: special.2010.01.08

If he's going to sit there on one chord for that amount of time, it's going to go on for a long period of time.

既然作曲家能放任一个和弦行进这么久，他一定有的是时间。

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

The seventy-one year old cried tears of joy as she told the crowd the award was "a long time coming" but worth the wait.

VOA: special.2011.02.18

Now, for a long time in American scholarship and in American classrooms one of the deep mythologies about this whole story of the era of the American Civil War in the Old South is that the Old South's plantation economy was dying out.

在很长的一段时间中,美国学术界和美国课堂,对于这个时代内战前的南方历史,存有一个疑点,就是当时南方的种植园经济正在逐渐衰退

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

After one gathering, several men surrounded her and talked for a long time.

VOA: special.2009.05.10

So, give me two more minutes, I'm going to end, and a few of you, faces, I've heard this before, people that I know; but, I guess one reason why I'm in history--well, because I read a book a long time ago.

所以,再给我两分钟,我就要结束了,你们有些人,面孔,这我见过,有的人我认识,但是,我觉得我之所以搞历史,因为我很久以前读过一本书

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

One reason is that it takes a long time;

VOA: special.2010.04.13

London, already by the late sixteenth century, one-sixth of all the people, I think this is E.A. Wrigley who pointed this out a long time ago--one-sixth of all the people in England went to London frequently, because London was absolutely gigantic as a city.

伦敦,早在十六世纪后期,六分之一的人口,我想是E.A莱格力很久以前给出的这个数据,他指出,当时有六分之一的英国人,会经常去伦敦,因为伦敦当时是个巨型城市

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

She says Washington is delivering on President Obama's promises by helping local communities develop long-lasting solutions and not by focusing on one-time projects.

VOA: standard.2009.11.03

Here is the pitch in--of--a string an octave higher so you can see it this way. As you probably know, if you take a long string and pluck it, it's going to take that long string a long time to pass that sort of cycle, if you will, just one pass through that cycle.

这也是个音高,一个高八度的音弦,你可以这样这样看 你们可能知道,如果你拨动长弦,长弦要经过很长时间,才能完成一个震动周期,如果你想,可以尝试下

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

One man,who did not give his name, has been single for a long time.

VOA: standard.2010.02.13