The phrase "as long overdue" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate that something should have happened much earlier than it actually did, often implying a sense of urgency or necessity.
Example: "The report was finally submitted, as long overdue, and we can now move forward with the project."
Alternatives: "finally due" or "well past due".
Details are expected this year.Many see these reforms as long overdue.
While human rights advocates hailed that step as long overdue, it has added to the general sense of pandemonium ahead of the Olympics.
The trade legislation is seen by sponsors as long overdue and particularly necessary to let American companies fully take advantage of Russian markets with the country's coming ascension to the World Trade Organization.
Not since King John grudgingly signed along the dotted line of the Magna Carta have we been afforded a moment quite as glorious, or as long overdue, as this.
Many see the moves as long overdue.
But a pro-Palestinian group welcomed news of the abortive move as "long overdue".
The government and its supporters see the jailing of Mr. Enkhbayar on corruption allegations as long-overdue justice for a man they say enriched himself and his family at the country's expense.
Some of them may be explicable as long-overdue remedies to unjust neglect, but why did the spate of building happen when it did, in the first few years of the present century?
In that context, choosing a father for your child according to his "sell-by date" would be perversely consistent — seen by some women as long-overdue comeuppance (hear the chortling yet at girls' night out?) and by others (old habits die hard) as yet another thing they have to worry about when getting pregnant.
His style of leadership relied on his consummate skills as negotiator and personal charisma to broker a "big tent" government, which accommodated the often contradictory interests of finance, industry, agribusiness and old political elites with the demands arising from the Workers partyy historical social base, as well as long-overdue interventions in wealth distribution and infrastructure.
Russian pro-government analysts welcome moves for Crimea to join Russia as long-overdue.
