It was a problem he had been mulling for a long time.

这是他一直反复考虑了很久的问题。

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Had it been a drugs issue, she would have been suspended a long time ago, but this is a unique problem for which the IAAF's rules do not make provision.

如果是一个违禁药物的案件，那她早就得到处罚了。但现在是一个很独特的情况，国际田联在这方面还没有相应的规则。

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"If we had a million dollars in the bank, this problem would have been solved a long time ago," he says.

“如果我们在银行中有一百万美元，这个问题早就得到了解决，”他说。

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Cramming had long been a problem with traditional landline phones, but after pressure from lawmakers, regulators and others, some of the largest landline carriers last year said they would no longer allow third-party billing where an outside company offers and then charges the landline customer for services like third-party email, faxing, and voicemail.

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There was too much "closeness" in the relationship between politics and the media and the problem had been going on for a long time, he said.

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