Because of routine vaccination, measles — which kills at least a hundred and fifty thousand people in the developing world each year — long ago ceased to be a significant threat in the United States.
"The way the bankers have toppled the way that money is distributed, and taken most of it into their own hands," Mr. Batali said, "is as good as Stalin or Hitler, the evil guys" whom Time named Man of the Year long ago, Stalin in 1942, Hitler in 1938.
In England, they prefer to remember Beckham the transcendent player, even though those years were long ago, writes Kevin Garside in The Independent.
Mr. Claus, a mall Santa veteran who has worked the Christmas season here for nearly 15 years, learned long ago how to infuse the magical into the mundane.
And we haven't seen a serious dip in computer demand in seven years too long ago for most investors to recall.
Noel Night has been expanding and improving for the past 40 years and long ago reached a point where there's simply no way to appreciate it all.
In the fall of 1988, the writer's mother called from Miami to… "The yellow bird made from cloth and / vines sits better in the / window than / the red truck I built last / year… Long ago, I got a job proofreading advertising copy for a swank little boutique ad firm situated in a hip downtown loft.
I went to my 10-year reunion long ago.
But employee-owned B.N.A., started about 80 years ago, has long ago established clout among lawmakers, regulators and lobbyists.
Her husband, who is in his 60s, immigrated to the US more than 25 years ago and long ago established a new life here.
