Sentence examples for had begun long from inspiring English sources
Some shifting had begun long before.
He'd been the victim of an injustice that had begun long ago.
Ghane's problems had begun long before he arrived at the hospital in Kansas.
Ms. Becker said the efforts to keep Elaine's afloat had begun long before Ms. Kaufman's death.
King's dominance over the music world had begun long before 1971.
Behind the scenes, the network's programming woes had begun long before.
Addie may have felt trapped by her fugitive husband, but the entrapment seems to have begun long before.
Moreover, given the long lead times for major military acquisitions, if the Navy or other military services were woefully small, that development would have begun long before Mr. Obama took office.
I think I didn't smell India, which has a pungent repertoire, when I went back in December 2005 after an eight-year absence, but the loss may have begun long before.
Maybe that's why all the elements -- a little girl's nightmares, a plan to prevent a natural disaster, a romantic relationship that should have begun long ago -- reflect and satisfy a yearning for solace and safety.
The erstwhile journalist Cyrus Shahrad, who records under the name Hiatus, sees his electronic music career as having begun long before the drum-'n'-bass nights he D.J.-ed in his smoke-filled basement room as a student at Cambridge University.
