The phrase "a long pattern of the" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It can be used when describing a prolonged or established trend or behavior related to a specific subject.
Example: "There has been a long pattern of the community coming together to support local businesses during tough times."
Alternatives: "an extended history of" or "a prolonged trend of".
If she develops a long pattern of this stuff, it could become a bigger problem".
It's the latest in a long pattern of animosity by the White House toward CNN, including the president retweeting an image of him with a crushed CNN logo on the sole of his shoe.
But their disagreement follows a long pattern of friction in which the labels demand high prices for licenses or withhold the licenses altogether.
By polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (PAGE), most animal SGI and SGII and human SGII rotavirus strains display a "long" pattern of migration (e-type) of the 11 dsRNA genomic segments; almost all SGI human rotavirus strains possess a "short" e-type (1 ).
Last year, a task force appointed by Mr. Emanuel issued a scathing report that concluded that racism had contributed to a long pattern of institutional failures by the police.
CHICAGO — Racism has contributed to a long pattern of institutional failures by the Chicago Police Department in which officers have mistreated people, operated without sufficient oversight, and lost the trust of residents, a task force appointed by Mayor Rahm Emanuel has found.
Other attacks have continued a long pattern of sectarian violence in the country, including two suicide bombings of minority Shiite Muslim mosques and the assassination of a cleric from the country's Sunni Muslim majority who had close ties to the Taliban.
The block on Google sites appears to be the latest in a long pattern of increasingly sophisticated Internet censorship by the Chinese government.
Her argument boils down to this: too much firepower was aimed at her emails, part of a long pattern of unfair scandal mongering over the years.
"The charges echo a long pattern of leveraging political stature for personal financial gain that has characterized the career of the 73-year-old speaker-turned-pundit.
