They took a long time getting to the top, the only reward for the long years of waiting being that when they had their own newspapers, both knew what they wanted and firmly set about getting it.

他们花了很长时间才达到顶峰，多年等待的唯一回报是，当他们有了自己的报纸，他们俩都知道自己想要什么，并坚定地着手去实现它。

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People have been using the wind's energy for a long, long time.

人们使用风能已经有很长很长时间了。

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Write and post great content on a regular basis for a long, long time.

在相当长的一段时间里，你得定期写作和发布有质量的文章。

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

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Because you kept fighting -- and some of you have been fighting this fight for a long time, long before I was here and long before Lisa was here.

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"It's been a trend for us for a long time now, not getting one or two guys to stand up and score that hundred or even that 70 or 80 continuously, " Vettori said .

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