The phrase "about how longtime" is not correct in written English.
It seems to be an attempt to discuss the duration of time, but it is not a standard expression.
Example: "I want to know about how long it will take to complete the project."
Alternatives: "about how much time" or "about the duration".
That speaks volumes about how a longtime Beltway insider views the rest of the country.
In February 2010, I wrote a piece about how Kent Treptow, a longtime photographer for the Huntington Beach Independent and its sister papers, had left his job to walk across America.
The New Yorker's poetry editor, Alice Quinn, talks with these two longtime contributors about how they discovered their vocation, the impact of the Vietnam War, and the process of revision.
Here Blake Eskin talks with Murakami's longtime translator Jay Rubin about how he became a Murakami fan and translator, the reception in Japan of Murakami's latest novel, "1Q84," and why Rubin doesn't recommend reading literature in translation.
As the Post reported earlier this month, David Dzidzienyo, the director of Gray's official campaign field operations, said he voiced concerns to Gray during the 2010 race about how campaign efforts headed up by longtime local campaign operative Vernon Hawkins were being funded.
And when I got in touch with some longtime locals to talk about how this part of the world had changed over the years, none of them got around to mustering much outrage about anything other than the traffic.
David Cone, a longtime teammate, always talked about how the at-bats of O'Neill and Tino Martinez established a level of intensity for others.
One letter-writer, Richard Smith, the president of the NAACP Delaware State Conference, was approached by a longtime acquaintance with information about how return-free filing would take dollars out of poor people's pockets.
His longtime supporters like to joke about how difficult it was to get reporters to come listen to him in April.
