Sentence examples for a long time told from inspiring English sources

Suggestions(1)

The phrase "a long time told" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It seems to be an attempt to express something that has been known or recounted for a long time, but the wording is awkward and unclear.
Example: "The story of the ancient hero is one that has been told for a long time."
Alternatives: "long ago recounted" or "long since narrated".

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He talked to me for a long time, told me how he was doing, what the team had been through in my absence.

Ken MacLeod, a science fiction writer who has known Banks "for a long time," told The Independent: "It was a complete shock; it came totally out of the blue".

The walls and ceilings were concrete, but the detainees who had been there a long time told me it had been made of black wood before it was concrete and that's why they called it the black jail.

"We might be short on a few things, but courage and a determination to fight to the end have been in abundance". Roy Keane - whose appointment as assistant manager O'Neill described as "as good a decision as I have made for a long time" - told RTE: "We do not want to go there just to make up the numbers.

"I don't know what to do at this point," Davis, who said the news brought her to tears for the first time "in a long time," told WCNC.

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History is a long time telling, and the chapters are not static.

But I spent a long time telling myself awards don't matter.

It spends a long time telling us what anyone who has been paying even a little attention to public life already knows: that politicians have paralyzed the legislative process with a rancorous sort of trench warfare.

"If you have been using PPIs over the counter for a long time, tell your doctor," Shah said.

Should you care enough to want them to be around for a long time, tell her/him before she/he hears about it from someone else.

If they order something that takes a long time, tell them it will take a little bit longer, or if something is taking way too long, get your manager involved.

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