But I've also not forgotten a long-ago afternoon spent in the Boboli Gardens with a crowd of other au pairs when I listened to a tired, middle-aged Filipino woman sob her heart out because her employers had confiscated her passport and she had no money, no future and no means of escaping back to her own children.
"It's 10am here (California) and I sitting here at work trying to forget a long night of drinking last night.
Sometimes it feels as if it's reminding us of something we already knew, but forgot a long time ago, and now, with its help, we are remembering again, he says.
Because x and y are coprime, so that x and N are coprime, it follows (from some theorem of the theory of cyclical groups that I forgot a long time ago) that this method generates the entire group, i.e., all integers 0, 1, …, N (and N is the last such generated, i.e., is adjacent to 0 on the clockwise side).
Franzen, it is often forgotten, took a long time to find his feet as a novelist.
Other images, be they weirdly niche or inexplicably unfunny, falter and are forgotten in a long chronology.
"This is a disease that affects only the north and the northeast, and these are regions that have been forgotten for a long time".
Hansen's secular stagnation thesis was forgotten for a long time because the US – and the rest of the advanced world – experienced a growth spurt in the wake of the Second World War.
"There is no state presence; our community was forgotten for a long time.
In other words, a lot of people he might have forgotten about a long time ago.
