"long-term connection" is a perfectly correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is used to indicate a relationship that has been established and is expected to continue for an extended period of time. For example, "Their long-term connection with the family business has been an invaluable part of their success."
Finally, you'll meet some people with whom you'd like to build a long-term connection.
What it isn't, though, is a serious or sustained demonstration of the long-term connection between Mr. Cunningham and nature.
She also established a long-term connection with the East Harlem Storefront School, where she taught during sabbatical leaves.
CAPRISA, South Africa: Dr. Susser has had a long-term connection to Universities (especially UKZN) and other institutions in South Africa.
Working on a corpus of 5,000 novels, and covering the two centuries from 1700 to 1900, this pamphlet charts the uneven development of social spaces and fictional structures, bringing to light the long-term connection between emotion and class in narrative representations of London.
Others may work, but users lose interest and so the long-term connection with the user, necessary for sustained change, is lost.
These programs, and the materials available to support them, build habits crucial to long-term connections to language-based learning.
As the red planet emphasises long-distance, long-term connections, it's worth going well out of your way for the right thrill.
"Few of us die in the same neighborhoods where we were born, so often when a person dies, there are fewer long-term connections," Mr. Goodness says.
These specialties tend to attract junior doctors with rich life experience, who want to build long-term connections with patients and settle into their own family lives.
Diane had a talent for friendship, and she maintained long-term connections with all sorts of people — eccentrics in rooming houses, freaks in sideshows, socialites on Park Avenue.
