Rationing had put an end to a surfeit of biscuits long ago.

定量供应很久以前就结束了饼干过剩的情况。

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Her parents died a long time ago.

她的父母很早以前就去世了。

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It started a long time ago.

很久以前就开始了。

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"Auld Lang Syne," by the eighteenth century Scottish poet Robert Burns, is a song about friends and remembering times long ago.

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Well, you know, it goes back to the beginning of the formation of the personal computer industry, which--that sounds like a long time ago.

嗯，你知道，这要追溯到,个人电脑产业的形成初期，听起来相当久远了。

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and I think that because... from a long time ago there were, it was just a very diverse city.

而且很久前，这里就是个多元性的城市。

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We Brits stopped using gold for pound coins a long, long time ago as the amount of gold that made a pound shrank away to microscopic amounts (currently around 0.03 grammes of gold).

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"To quote my company commander at the time when I arrived in 1975, he said 'if we hadn't have introduced internment three or four years ago I reckon we'd have gone home a long time ago, '" Mr Mercer said.

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