"has long shaped" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to talk about something that has had a long-term effect on or influence on a person, thing, or situation. For example: The importance of education and knowledge has long shaped our society.
LITERATURE has long shaped desire, including the lust for travel.
This negative language has long shaped public views and sentiments towards rural migrants and further deepened the prejudice against them.
This divergence between the cost of shipping overland and the cost of shipping by sea has long shaped the planet's economic geography.
By contrast, the black characters — earnest and dignified — are given few interesting or humorous lines, even though verbal sparring and one-upmanship is a recognized aspect of black vernacular culture that has long shaped the American mainstream.
Painted earthen red to blend with the natural surroundings, the tanks cannot help dominating the city's skyline, much the way the oil giant itself has long shaped Richmond's identity, economy and politics.
But after nearly half a century living with a radioactive neighbor, San Clemente is now adjusting to a future without the San Onofre nuclear power plant, whose proximity has long shaped life here in ways big and small.
Improvisation and ingenuity have long shaped the Russian diet.
The whims of wealthy people have long shaped museum exhibitions.
MEMPHIS — Violence and heartbreak have long shaped the music that makes this city synonymous with the blues.
But millions of diners, fuelled by concerns about their health and the state of the environment — and propelled by a general distaste for industrially produced and highly processed food — have begun to shun the ubiquitous chains that have long shaped the American culinary character.
While we may not know their names, anonymous writers have long shaped our worldview, says Brooke Magnanti, who wrote as sex blogger Belle de Jour.
