After building cities for so long, perhaps it's now time to start rebuilding nature.

在建造城市这么久之后，也许现在是时候开始重建自然了。

youdao

We were able to start using DITA content with our existing books long before time permitted a full-scale migration.

在能够实现大规模迁移的很长时间中可以在已有图书中使用DITA内容。

youdao

It takes me a long time to sort over my thoughts before I can start writing.

在动笔之前，我得多花些时间整理一下我的思路。

youdao

I was going to say when you first start doing this, even people who have been doing it for a long time still go off on ten-minute daydreams before realizing that their minds were wondering.

我本想说第一次尝试时，但即便是修行多年的人,也会走神十分钟之久,方才意识到自己刚做了白日梦。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

When do they start thinking of themselves as French? And this has been hotly debated in the literature for a very long time.

他们什么时候开始觉得自己是法国人了,这曾在文学界,引起长时间热烈的讨论

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

But I'm going to start a long time ago.

CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

It had taken her an awfully long time to start looking her age, but now at last Merrie Paulsen had been rewarded in her wait for it to happen.

NEWYORKER: Good Neighbors

But today, we are alone and as the late afternoon sun turns the dull brown mountains a richer, deeper shade of ochre it is time to head down and start the long drive back to Erbil and the complexities of modern Iraq.

FORBES: Iraq - but not as you know it.