Sentence examples for it was long accepted from inspiring English sources
Jing Fang had written in the 1st century BC of how it was long accepted in China that the Sun and Moon were spherical in shape ('like a crossbow bullet'), not flat.
The version of history in the Duan Albanach was long accepted, although it is preceded by the purely fictional tale of Albanus and Brutus conquering Britain.
Colour variation in the peppered moth Biston betularia was long accepted to be under strong natural selection.
On the other hand, it has been long accepted that epidermal growth factor (EGF) has the potential to inhibit TLR4 signaling [95].
Although there is a large evidence base for stroke rehabilitation in the acute and subacute stages, it has been long accepted that patients with stroke reach a plateau in their rehabilitation recovery relatively early.
Although it has been long accepted that the important system requirements should be considered from the early stages of the development process, non-functional requirements such as security tend to get neglected or dealt with only at later stages of the development process.
Although its Eskimo affinities were long accepted by many paleoanthropologists, later experts have generally agreed that the Chancelade skull is Cro-Magnon.
The in situ observations of barnacle interface development during uninterrupted growth are consistent with the capillary secretions playing a significant role in adhesion, as has been long accepted.
It's long been accepted that physical exercise is good for the body; the ancient Buddhist contention that mindfulness is good for the mind, now backed with science, is also permeating the mainstream.
It's long been accepted that Mo Yan's work is influenced by García Márquez's magical realism; in the official press release, the Nobel prize committee praised him for a "hallucinatory realism" that "merges folk tales, history and the contemporary".
"It's long been accepted that different human species were adapted to thrive in specific climatic niches.
