"I was one of these teenagers, and so I know how difficult it can be to break this habit when it's been with you for a long time,".

VOA: standard.2009.06.22

And I still believe that in Africa we have been going through this kind of pressure for a pretty long time, so I believe that when it comes we can handle it and lift the cup on Friday,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

Bush, on the other hand, seemed pretty baffled for a lot of it, and there were some moments when he paused for so long before speaking that I thought I was going to have a nervous breakdown.

CNN: Jessi Klein's presidential debate blog

But the pendulum of capital-markets regulation in America has swung in one direction for so long that when it started to reverse course, it was bound to do so with a vengeance.

ECONOMIST: Wall Street deregulation

Why pursue this matter for so long when it was clear from the get-go that the law against revealing the identity of a CIA agent working secretly in the field had not been violated?

FORBES: Fact and Comment