Sentence examples for existed a long time from inspiring English sources

Putin's incursion into Crimea and his manipulation of the situation in eastern Ukraine, Pavlovsky said, "was an improvisation, though the logistics and plans existed a long time ago".

"Star Wars" takes place in a futuristic, sci-fi world, but Lucas tells you at the beginning that it existed "a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away".

WiFiSync should have existed a long time ago.

Most of them, such as the Suez Canal development project, are projects that existed a long time ago, but no-one had the courage to implement them.

So at best, what we can know from paleontology is that bacteria existed a long time ago, and from isotopic records, we can discern that life quickly took over the planet and eventually altered its chemistry to the oxygen-rich environment we see today.

On the basis of universally high core genome ortholog similarities, it arose from a point source that existed a long time after the divergence of the ancestor of this point source from any other known S. aureus species.

My view is that the silly season ceased to exist a long time ago.

Podcasts, message boards and blogs are all mentioned, but presented with technophobic suspicion; Hepworth still seems to be mourning The Word magazine (which he edited) and pining for "the magic nebula" of music magazines, which in his mind ceased to exist a long time ago.

As Golub pointed out, five years ago most applications used to exist a long time, were monolithic and lived on a single server.

In the evolutionary context, to exist means to exist for a long time.

(Yes, personal ads have existed for a long time, but they used to be only for weirdos).