The phrase "been long lost" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is often used to describe something that has been missing or forgotten for a significant amount of time. Example: "The ancient artifact had been long lost until it was discovered during an excavation in the desert."
That statement was made well over a century ago, by a child whose name has been long lost.
She will also receive a new wardrobe and accessories, since Kirsten's boots, apron, knit stockings and bonnet – everything but her dress – have all been long lost, something that Ms. Taube said was a result of "a lot of love over the years".
The first version seems meant for television or classroom viewings; the second for viewers more interested in Eisenstein's graphic style and use of type (though both sets of subtitles appear to be modern reconstructions, the period versions having been long lost).
How could we be expected to truly reconcile with and forgive the people who had murdered and destroyed our families when the great man himself could not reconcile with and forgive our Great Mother – the woman without whose efforts and sacrifices his memory would have been long lost, together with the names of countless others who had spent those years on Robben Island?
To me, 'beefa had earned its nickname from the sloppy pronunciation of people who worship at the altar of happy hour, a place whose musical heritage had been long lost down a sinkhole of celebrity culture and alcopop-coloured puke.
In short, the battle was long lost.
Only 15percentt of the tiles could be salvaged, and the secret recipe for the glaze was long lost.
Anonymous, found or outsider photographs, taken largely by, and of, people whose identities are long lost, exist in unfathomable numbers, like stars or grains of sand.
But Mr. Davis, a janitor at a diner, is rolling out the welcome mat as if they were long lost kin -- and in a way they are.
He defended his field placings, however, as well as his decision to delay the introduction of Panesar on a fourth-day pitch until the cause was long lost.
He scooped out a… The saying dead as a doornail is still dead as a doornail: Whatever a doornail might be or was, long lost in the dark, The… Insomniac monkey-mind ponders the Dove,.
