The house stood empty for a long time.

那所房子空了好长一段时间。

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It's been a long time since I heard a blackbird's song in the evening.

我已经好长时间没在晚上听到黑鹂的鸣叫声了。

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It takes a long time to learn to speak a language well.

学会说好一种语言需要花很长的时间。

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The song is about leaving the big city for the countryside, going home again after a long time away.

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And the Aristotelian view held for a long time, but eventually it started to crumble in the light of more data.

而亚里士多德的观点在很长时间里得到了认同，但最终还是崩溃了,在越来越多的数据面前。

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I don't know if you know this, but for a long time when movies took place in New York,

我不清楚你是否知道，很长一段时间，电影里发生在纽约的场景，

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That ruling in Knin had "addressed for the first time a long-standing grievance", the report said, adding that the compensation issue should now be "systematically tackled".

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Are we in for a bad time for a long time?

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"It's the first time in a long, long time that you could see someone who's not a quarterback significantly affect the betting line because of an injury, " said Jimmy Vaccaro, the director of sports operations at Lucky's Race and Sportsbook in Las Vegas.

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