The phrase "a long time narrative" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a story or account that spans a significant duration or covers events over an extended period.
Example: "The documentary presented a long time narrative of the city's history, showcasing its evolution over the decades."
Alternatives: "an extended narrative" or "a lengthy account".
For a long time, narrative was out for the artist-auteur, and stories were seen as somehow suspect.
Paul Nicholls, whose work Golden Age The Simulation (below), is an abstract journey into the virtual forms architecture can take says: "I think that film offers something which architecture has been trying to achieve for a long time: narrative.
For a long time, Lawrie said, the popular narrative of that British Open — van de Velde lost the tournament, not that he won it — deeply troubled him.
Adam Lanza moved from one to another for reasons we will be sorting out for a long time, maybe forever, and the narrative is still jumbled, as the conflicting reports and updates (including to this post) have shown.
Yes, we've been leaning on the UN and the IAEA for a long time to conform to our narrative on Iran.
Rubio for a long time benefited from a media narrative that suggested time and again that he was right on the verge of turning things around and locking up the support of the increasingly elusive "establishment" vote, even as the defeats kept coming.
For a long time, his personal life story wasn't part of Bernie's narrative.
Calvin Hernton wrote about Narratives a long time ago in a Parnassus review and offered that, while my poems were not "artful," they offered a unique insight into the tradition of poetry by black women--i.e., lesbianism.
For a long time, his use of figuration and narrative struck many people as hopelessly out of date.
"The narrative for a long time has been that Mitt Romney was 2-0," Spokesman Hogan Gidley told CNN on Thursday.
"I've loved narrative poetry for a long time," said Leary, who had entered the qualifying round via Skype from Stanford's Hopkins Marine Station in Pacific Grove.
