Sentence examples for this was long from inspiring English sources

This was long overdue.

"And this was long before social media".

"This was long before gay marriage.

This was long before radar and cameras.

"This was long before Grayson Perry.

This was long before the arrival of the IPCC investigators.

And," Eula acknowledges, "all of this was long before 007.

(This was long before iPods, iPads or iPhones).

This was long-established stuff".

The first thing I thought of when I saw this was long-dead Desktop.com.

You've got to remember this was long before the online world we're used to today.