Sentence examples for be long ago from inspiring English sources

Then, as now, the commission stated that blanket exclusions could unfairly hurt black and Latino applicants because they have considerably higher conviction records and the criminal offenses might be long ago and have little bearing on a current job.

It's like reading used to be — long ago before anyone had ever seen the brightly backlighted screens of laptops, cellphones and iPods that, when activated, turn everyone's personal field of vision into layers of garish light and sound, personal Times Squares.

I was taken aback, in the same way that I used to be long ago about Amazon knowing my reading predelictions, before I came to accept that the tastes I once believed were individual are, in fact, cattle-prodded by the same stimuli as every other broadsheet reader out there.

Many of Trump's targets focus on social and economic issues we thought to be long ago solved by law or consensus.

It used to be long ago that the "press" sign on your body armor might add some protection (I never wear that).

And he was long ago.

It was long ago.

Yet that was long ago.

But all that was long ago.

After all, it was long ago.

He was once a ventriloquist, but that was long ago.