The phrase "long-lasting influence" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe something that has a lasting and powerful effect on something else. For example, "The new law had a long-lasting influence on the country's economic policies."
But a new study offers a clue to how an experience early in childhood may exert such a powerful and long-lasting influence.
In Essinger's accessible biography, Annabella emerges as a controlling, highly intellectual mother with long-lasting influence over her more imaginative and emotional daughter.
The findings, commissioned by the Sutton Trust, reveal the powerful and long-lasting influence of background in shaping educational outcomes and suggest that income is only partly responsible for the variations in levels of education by different groups.
I owned records by a few bands that sounded like Beefheart's — XTC and the Gang of Four spring to mind — but these turned out later to be more evidence of Beefheart's wide and long-lasting influence.
"I'm over here, mate," Xabi Alonso calls, poking his head out from behind the wall of an access point, the use of the word "mate" a reminder that five years living on Merseyside can have a long-lasting influence on a foreign player's vocabulary.
Of special and long-lasting influence in the history of the interpretation of myth was Euhemerism (named after Euhemerus, a Greek writer who flourished about 300 bce), according to which certain gods were originally great people venerated because of their benefactions to mankind.
In art, the Sasanians gave as good as they got, generating widespread and long-lasting influences of their own.
Clearly, additional studies of genome-scale methylation maps will be important to give us a full understanding of the long-lasting influences of early hormone exposure on DNA methylation dynamics of the brain.
Therefore, it is important to estimate the effect of birth region net of socioeconomic characteristics and health risk factors in adulthood to capture any independent and long-lasting influences of birth region on obesity.
Moreover, although the Young Lives' sampling strategy does not render the data nationally representative for all countries (24), the data provide a comprehensive understanding of the long-lasting influences of poverty on children in four low- and middle-income countries.
We believe that our methodology of interviewing currently afflicted patients might have minimized recall bias although one potential advantage of the Baltimore approach was determining long-lasting influences of TB on patients lives (the investigators received 17 comments in this regard).
