Jonathan, remember what you said a long time ago, about loving the Flock enough to return to it and help it learn?

乔纳森，好久前你不是说过，要热爱鸥群；要回到他们之中去，帮助他们学习，你还记得吗？

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He said his goodbyes knowing that a long time would pass before he would see his child again.

他道了别，清楚要过很久才能再见到他的孩子。

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"Heidi went to sleep a long time ago," said Clara, highly amused.

“海蒂早就睡着了。”克拉拉说，觉得很有趣。

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Calhoun said that for a long time he had believed that the dispute over slavery -- if not settled -- would end in disunion.

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And she said, " "I don't think I've felt this way in a very long time."

她说，“我好久没有过这样的感觉了“

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These DPPs go back a long time but there began to be complaints about them because people said, well why is it, because I'm not an accredited investor, I can't get into real estate like these other people do?

PP由来已久,但现在人们开始抱怨,他们说,我不是可信投资者,为什么仅凭此门槛,而不让我像别人一样投资商业地产呢

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It was Lord Lever (purveyor of soaps to the nation) who said a long time ago that he knew that half of his advertising budget was wasted.

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So we have said for a long time now if the Iraqi government asks us to maintain some level of troops beyond that end-of-the-year deadline, we would consider it.

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He said for a long time voters had thought politics was "something that's done to them, not for them", but now they have "seen something different that they can believe in".

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