Not long from now, Peyton Manning and Jim Irsay will be seen on the town with other people.
Yet it is precisely the fact that soldiers who were fighting one another not long ago now train together, or that firemen co-operate on a routine basis or that everyone from vets to central bankers meets with almost dreary regularity which constitutes the good news.
Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away.
Her hair had been cut like a boy's, but it had not been cut for a long time and was now not even parted.
For billionaires Leon Black, Joshua Harris and Marc Rowan, co-founders of Apollo Global Management LyondellBasell and other chemical investments that looked like a disaster not so long ago are now helping motor the legendary private equity firm to its own IPO.
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However, what lingers most vividly in the memory is his affectionate, gently mocking and frequently moving evocation in the first third of the book of a period and a society that, though not long gone, seems now to be from an entirely different age.
Social shopping, just hype not so long ago, is now being embraced by online retailers.
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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 .
And also this has been happening quite a long time now, not only torture but Iraqis killed and no investigation into it, there doesn't seem anybody in the White House who are capable - or in any other part of the US Government - capable of saying this is what's going wrong, this is how we stop it and this must happen now.
What was once an unusual sight not too long ago in American cities is now part of the urban landscape.
Technological feats such as self-driving cars and voice-recognition and translation programmes, not long ago a distant hope, are now realities.
Mitsubishi's HC7000 1080p projector just started leaving the docks not too, too long ago, and now the kind folks over at BigPictureBigSound have published a thorough review after spending a decent bit of time with it.
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Douentza, 75 miles away, is now in the hands of the MNLA. The famed city of Timbuktu, not so long ago a popular tourist destination for adventurous Europeans, is now ruled by Ansar Dine.
It seems hard to imagine now, but General Motors not long ago produced the most environmentally friendly automobile in the world: the electric vehicle called EV-1.
Similarly, most corporate sponsorship packages and hospitality suites are secured long before now and are generally not refundable or conditional upon certain athletes appearing in the event.
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Until now you may have not spent long hours wondering what it would be like to watch Ndamukong Suh on a three-meter springboard, but when presented with the moment, it's oddly compelling.
In part that's because the circumstances he now faces are not just a long long way from the sunny optimistic rhetoric which preceded the economic crisis, but also a long long way from the economic recovery he once believed would be well under way by now.
Even American officials, who were saying a week ago they did not need one, now take the line that a resolution would be welcome so long as it did not produce endless delay.
Having fought for so long, they are not about to fade away now.
Indeed, the life of a model that not so long ago would have been a calendar year is now measured in terms of an Internet year, which is 90 days.
Now, it's true that not long ago, you could drop out of high school and reasonably expect to find a blue-collar job that would pay the bills and help support your family.
Even in the best of circumstances Mr Hyde's deadline may not be realistic (will the committee have long enough between now and Christmas to accommodate 37 long-winded politicians, even if Mr Hyde sticks to his post-election musing and calls as witnesses only Mr Starr himself and an expert on testimony under oath?).
Now, I am not here to give a long speech, because I want everybody out there, not in here.
No one can guarantee 20% a year, especially not now when America's bull market is getting long in the tooth.
Now, I'm not going to speak long, mainly because I've been speaking a lot and you all have heard me before.
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I've got a couple of special thank yous that I want to make, because I've got a lot of old friends -- not old in years, but been friends for a long time now.
Along with the growing despotic gloom in Russia, much of the former Soviet Union features a lineup of rulers who have by now stayed on quite long enough to qualify not as transition leaders but entrenched despots.
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