The phrase "long term narrative" is correct and can be used in written English.
You could use it to refer to the overall, long-term story of something, such as a political movement or an idea. For example, "The long term narrative of the environmental movement is one of progress and success, despite its struggles."
"It goes into this long-term narrative of Detroit is vacant and empty and there's no one here.
He should also explain a long-term narrative for how he would like to reform India, to make its economy grow faster.
As Ofsted admits in a damning passage on primary pupils, "some … found it difficult to place the historical episodes they had studied within any coherent, long-term narrative.
One particularly silly track compares Madonna's vaginal fluids to holy water, maintaining the long-term narrative of Catholic-poking that runs through Madonna's libidinous oeuvre.
The challenge for his political advisers is how to construct a long-term narrative about his successful efforts to improve the economy despite the torrent of bad news that seems to arrive every day.
Commodities promised a decent long-term narrative (Chinese and Indian demand) and the prospect of diversification, the only free lunch in the investment world: positive returns that are not correlated with other asset classes.Then something went wrong.
"This would play not only into Moscow's long-term narrative about securing the rights and lives of Russian citizens abroad, but also to the doctrinal imperative of ensuring security and stability on the approaches to Russia's borders," he says.
Each one is little more than a moment in a long-term narrative of personal and collective growth.
If you go to the game's abandoned website you can see hopes of a global eSports scene and some long-term narrative exposition.
You work your way up, covering cops, school board elections, city hall meetings, before being assigned to cover a political campaign, maybe write long-term narrative features, perhaps work on a year-long, prize-winning investigation.
