1) I have long since abandoned the notion that higher education is essential to either success or happiness. Hot houses of learning do not always grow anything edible. 

2) Dad had long since divested himself of anything valuable.

3) They had long since moved away.

4) Any doubts had long since been swept away.

5) The entrance had long since been walled up.

6) It was not long since that I returned.

7) I've long since forgiven her for what she did.

8) The city has long since passed into oblivion.

9) This idea has long since fallen out of favour.

10) How long since is it?

11) The original building has long since been demolished.

12) Her parents had long since branded her a failure.

13) I've long since forgotten what our quarrel was about.

14) It's so long since it rained that the river-bed is dry.

15) This kind of textile machines has long since been out of use.

16) I had long since grown used to the eccentricities of his driving technique.

17) The people who built this temple have long since vanished.

18) She has long since moved on from the roles of her youth.

19) The UN is an organisation which has long since outlived its usefulness.

20) Even though her parents have long since died(), she still talks about them in the present tense.

21) Other staff had long since gone home.

22) He had long since given up reading the tabloids.

23) He had long since gone dead on politicians.

24) She had long since abandoned that hope.

25) I've long since stopped caring about him.

26) The soldiers have long since returned to their bases.

27) Most have long since gone, leaving behind their legacy of sunless,(http:///long since.html) blanket afforestation.

28) The town outside was long since ruined and empty, and he preferred St Hilarion in the heat of the day.

29) Old tattered flags hung from the ceiling, their patterns long since faded into the air.

30) The stones of the church are dark with age and the roof has long since gone.

1) Dad had long since divested himself of anything valuable.

31) It had houses on it in Roman and Byzantine times, and the stone lion has long since vanished.

32) By now Dad was sixty-five, and what little lenience he may once have possessed had long since hardened into steely inflexibility.

33) Much of the mountain consists of volcanic ash, long since hardened to jagged rock.

34) Then the conifers would have long since given up their job as nurses to the beeches and ended in a timber yard.

35) He was never brought to justice, and since he has long since died himself, we shall leave the matter there.

36) Multicolored volcanic ash flows, long since hardened to jagged rock, reach into the sea like fantastic taffy mountains.

37) That the classical wooden-bodied Pullman cars of earlier days had long since been split up and sold or scrapped was no deterrent.

38) Predictably, the international media circus, with its Olympian disdain for the parochial, has long since moved on.

39) Long since abandoned by the sea, Rye is now a hilltop town affording super views of the surrounding countryside.

40) This is not some ancient practice, some relic from the past long since abandoned.

41) Colonel Fergusson had long since given up trying to understand the business.

42) Today, they are a half-forgotten group, long since disbanded, whose name only qualifies for a where-are-they-now status.

43) The government had long since perceived that the way west depended on the transcontinental railroad.

44) Were it not fur her, I dare say Edward Plantagenet would long since have succumbed to ennui and despair.

45) Captain Robins was a Yorkshireman in his fifties who had long since lost his accent amidst the welter of a dozen dialects.

46) The Democratic Party has long since taken black voters for granted.

47) The north and south traffic on Vermont was separated by tracks for the old yellow trolley cars(), long since defunct.

48) The political will in Canberra to pursue war criminals has long since run out.

49) Scientific study had long since proved that it was the work of giant rabbits who had lived there in prehistoric times.

50) She has long since forgiven her husband, whom she divorced before she knew he was ill.

51) They, too, reasoned that Death, having gorged itself on their neighbours, would have long since moved on.

52) The villages and towns they passed through were shabby where buildings had long since been left to decay.

53) The receipts from his shows have long since moved from the realms of the fantastic into those of the ludicrous.

54) This sociologically naive view has long since had to be abandoned.

55) In fact, the Southern Califorian band had long since become as big a mass commodity as any band you can name.

56) But since most of London's heavy industry has long since gone, there must be other explanations too.

57) These are useless for feeding - but the time for feeding has long since passed.

58) Our parents long since disappeared into the vacuum of the war.

59) That one has long since vanished, as a result of the Falls' implacable backward erosion.

60) Maybe he should have cauterized those aspects of himself long since.

61) Now 82 and long since retired, Pearl started out as a boxing judge before stepping inside the ring.

62) Standing in the fields were pieces of farm machinery that had long since fallen into disrepair.

63) Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the Devil; for which reason I have, long since, as good as renounced it. Thomas Carlyle 

64) Fear of the future had long since beaten that out of the young.

65) I sat on a log among the shadows of creatures now extinct and others long since departed for pasture in the south.

66) Books had long since been recycled into toilet paper and what have you.

67) Stevenson has long since taken his towering presence and pounding fists into retirement.

68) It had been so long since she had seen snow she had almost forgotten about it.

69) The town which Joyce wrote about has long since ceased to exist.

70) A bitter smile touched his lips at that, for hadn't Grainne long since been lost?

71) He has long since withdrawn his name from Who's Who, declines to accept honorary degrees and refuses to be interviewed.

72) Among genres long since completed and inpart already dead, the novel is the only developing genre.

73) But that system has long since gone out the window.

74) Clearly he had long since trained himself to tune out all awareness of boys unless they menaced his engine or coachwork.

75) By the time they finally play at home, everyone else will have long since had their home openers.

76) The respectable residents have long since fled to the suburbs to escape the inner city pathologies.

77) But leaders, having achieved self-possession, have long since recovered their creative powers, too, and have continued to grow.

78) The presumed answer is that the golden age has long since disappeared below the horizon of memory.

79) Women who had long since stopped listening except to their own ossified ramblings.

80) The team were trudging off the pitch, the diamonds on their shirt-sleeves having long since lost their lustre.

81) The hour had long since passed for his call to Virginia Stillman, and he debated whether to go through with it.

82) Each course involves still further political damage to Major, his earlier Teflon coating having long since worn through.

83) Some are relict populations of forms which, on the mainland, have long since succumbed in the struggle for survival.

84) Leathery tans long since fell from favour, but a healthy glow is still considered the picture of vitality.

85) The ecological setting was similar to that of today, except for an alkaline lake which has long since evaporated.

86) Some places she taught, like Helvetia and Sasco, have long since turned to rubble.

87) By this time, of course, Mwafrika and its successors had long since lost their former political stance.

88) John, of course, had long since lost his northern accent and took delight in his appearance as the well-heeled businessman.

89) Nor indeed were many unmodified humans nearly as robust as the cadets had long since become.

90) For most lay Catholics, the debate over Church policy has long since passed into irrelevance.

91) Gao Yang counted seven old fingers buried in the steamed bun, which had long since given up its original shape.

92) No one knew exactly what inspired her elliptic comments, and her relations had long since given up trying to interpret them.

93) For instance, by the summer solstice on 21 June, the crops should be long since planted in the ground.

94) I had expected Gillis to be long since dead or at best a doddering ninety-year-old.

95) The reservoir behind it would have long since silted up.

96) Most of the key witnesses have long since skipped the country.

97) Since money had long since ceased to be a matter of concern to Wendell Harvey, he never stinted on spending it.

98) The word has long since been out of use.

99) Not long since, my CS force - out.

100) The pledge has long since run out.

101) I don't know, coz it's been too long since I did stock-taking the last time.

102) It is not very long since the flat dilatometer test (DMT) has been used in China, so it needs to be explored how to explain and apply the results of DMT rationally.

103) I had not felt his remorse over Mom's death, understood his intense loneliness as an "empty nester, " or realized most of his pals had long since left the world.

104) John Kenneth Galbraith: "Technical development has long since become the preserve of the scientist and the engineer.

105) There was still a noticeable bounce in her stride, but whatever springiness I had once possessed had long since left me.

106) I have long since come to terms with my blindness.

107) Western European nations had long since demonstrated the excellence and feasibility of such systems.

108) Most of his other few possessions had long since been sold to pay arrears of rent.

109) As it is not long since the decision has been implemented, up to now, few papers have been published about voluntary disclosure of earnings forecast information in China.

110) No evidence, at once so slight and irrefragable , of a subtle disease that had long since begun to eat into the real substance of his character.

111) Bows and arrows have long since gone out of use.

112) Nowadays, there are often 30 students practicing their twists and lifts in each class. The button-down Oxfords and sensible footwear have long since given way to Lycra and glitter-encrusted heels.

113) Bows and arrows have long since been out of use.

114) And the stigma of divorce has long since faded. A century ago, Elizabeth Cady Stanton called it a "social earthquake."

115) Columnar joint structure, as considered by various researchers long since,() is only possible to develop in basic lava with low viscosity and high nuidity.

116) The talk of setting aside a corner of the pasture for superannuated animals had long since been dropped.

117) The witness statement given by Mr Polanski's victim still makes harrowing reading (though she has long since settled with him in a civil-law suit, and has supported his efforts to close the case).

118) And the parched , split earth and tree - roots had long since been awaiting rain.

119) I had not felt his remorse over Mom's death, understood his intense loneliness as an "empty nester, " or realized most of his pals had long since light-beamed off the planet.

120) Mama didn't cry. Her eyes had long since gone dry.

121) Such policies are equivalent to trying to resuscitate a patient long since dead.

122) Thanks to the efforts of pioneers like the legendary Thomas Crapper, they have long since led the world in comfort and hygiene.

123) The wheel had long since rusted from years of disuse.

124) Undoubtedly Goering had long since become corrupt and increasingly unnerved.

125) The women whose hearts he broke are long since dead and the man who could never love anyone but himself has made them deathless at moment, I think, with Tristan and Isolde .

126) The sportive gymnastics has long since played an important role in China's PE teaching . "

127) It's been, God knows, how long since I last could stay in my bedroom from dawn till dusk without doing anything, just to let myself relax while my brain keeps working.

128) Choosing to live in the style of the 1830s, her clothes, her home, and her way of life all hearken back to an era long since past.

129) In Baquba, the Iraqi police detective flipped pointlessly through a file on his desk; the daylight was too faint to read by and the electricity had long since gone off./long since.html

130) J. D. Salinger's soul - searching novel of youthful alienation has long since faced down its initially hostile reception.

131) It's not long since phenolic resin was industrialized in China, but the market demand is booming.

132) The afternoon shadows had long since lengthened into evening and the night air had turned chilly.

133) Harpy Queen: Come, sisters! It's been too long since we feasted on outlander flesh!

134) The awkward, box-like products of the past have long since been replaced by smaller, slicker versions.

135) Establishing present-day ownership has led to lengthy complex court cases because the original owners of the British-registered ship have long since gone.

136) But I feel that I shall be earlier, because althorn set outside was making noises all night and day long since I can remember.

137) The East Germanic tribes settled east of the Oder River, but their languages have long since become extinct.

138) The Koobface internet worm, a deadly little piece of internet malware which got its start on Facebook, has long since spread to other social networking sites including MySpace, Bebo, and Twitter.

139) The studio's 1951 hit Alice in Wonderland was based on Lewis Carroll's novel, published 86 years earlier and long since reverted to the public domain.

140) Your great name long since reached my ears like thunder. I am ashamed to show off my incompetence in the presence of an expert like yourself.

141) Its tower has long since collapsed, and only the assembly hall remains.

142) Nagasaki's garment and assembly shops have long since gone to China.

143) The zip fastener had long since been wrenched out of them.

144) He had long since wearied of discussing the rancorous subject.

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