It is a long time since he has visited his native Chile.

他很久没有回故乡智利了。

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It is a long time since I have thought on those times.

我很久没有想过那些日子了。

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It is a long time after they separated, but it won't be long before they meet again.

他们已经分开很长时间了，但不久他们就会再次见面。

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

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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。

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This was known for a long time, but it took Mr. Einstein to figure out why nature is behaving in that fashion.

这一点在很早以前就人所共知了,不过是爱因斯坦先生解释了,大自然为什么以这种模式运行

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"It is a long time out of sport, particularly for a guy who loves playing at the top level, " Waugh said.

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"It is a long time in the sense of a click of a switch, but you are talking about every government service, " he said.

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"Ten years, it is a long time, but I don't think American tennis is as bad as people portray it to be, " Isner said.

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