Sentence examples for a time long gone from inspiring English sources

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Music has the power to evoke poignant memories from our past, making us feel sentimental for a time long gone.

Like the elderly professor in Ingmar Bergman's Wild Strawberries, he is conjuring up memories of a time long gone when "the child ran free".

(Strictly speaking, it was El Internacional by then; the photograph was taken for one of those fetching-career-girl stories in a magazine at a time, long gone, when magazines still ran more fetching than kvetching career-girl stories).

From the first page "A Book of Secrets" casts the spell of a time long gone, of loves endured and lost, expectations dashed on the rocks of reality, of inner desires forever stilled, casting their shadows into history.

In fact, I enjoyed myself so much, and found the show so edifying about the values of a time long gone, that I paid cash money to see it again.

I was so grateful to fall upon this documentary - it's available on iPlayer, and I urge you to look it up - even if it did make me tragically wistful for a time long gone, and for a singing career that never quite reached the high notes (mine, not Glen's).

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T. Harry Williams opens his celebrated biography of Huey Long with a story about the time Long went to campaign in "rural, Latin, Catholic, south Louisiana".

Appreciate him: he was a long time coming, and he will be a long time gone.

Not long afterward, he wrote a memoir, "Long Time Gone," about his life on the run.

Gurus are betting that the three-week slide in technology shares is a time to go long.

A long time gone, but never forgotten.

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