The phrase "a long time functioning" is not correct in standard written English.
It may be intended to describe something that has been operational for an extended period, but the phrasing is awkward.
Example: "The machine has been in operation for a long time functioning without any issues."
Alternatives: "operating for a long time" or "in use for a long time".
"If you cut cockroaches' heads off, they still walk around for a long time, functioning O.K., except that they don't have any way to eat," Amato observed.
"The insurance industry has come rather belatedly to the Internet, after a long time functioning as order-takers," said Herbert L. Rough, a partner in Comprehensive Planning-Goodman, a Hicksville insurance agency that recently unveiled a new e-commerce site.
Producing mechanical components with long time functioning is a vital issue in the advanced industries.
Sometimes, RC Patrol can act slow, and if it's taking a long time to function the rollback or mark as patrol buttons, you may rollback some good edits or mark some bad edits on accident if you click many times on those buttons, so it's best just to click it once.
For a long time, the function of the basal ganglia remained a mystery.
Over a long time EpCAM functions were thought to be limited to its actions as cell surface and adhesion molecule.
For a long time, the functions of H2 B modifications, particularly H2 BK120 Ac, have remained obscure compared to other modifications [ 56].
The lumen compartment was for a long time believed to function mainly in balancing the ion currents over the thylakoid membrane, however today 80 200 different proteins are suggested to be located there [2], [3].
Synthesized from cholesterol in hepatocytes of the liver, these amphipathic molecules have been for a long time considered to function only as trophic factors for the enteric epithelium and as detergents for the emulsification and absorption of dietary lipids and fat-soluble vitamins [ 57, 76, 77].
And she says she'll ask for proposed fast-track courts for gender justice, discussed a long time ago, to start functioning immediately.
The naive function may take a long time to run! Do not try commenting it out, since we rely on that result for comparing against a reference; sometimes code can take a long time to run and this is one of those cases.
