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Long ago   /lɔŋ əgˈoʊ/   Listen
Long ago

adverb
1.
Of the distant or comparatively distant past.  Synonyms: lang syne, long since.  "They long ago forsook their nomadic life" , "Left for work long ago" , "He has long since given up mountain climbing" , "This name has long since been forgotten" , "Lang syne"






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... Anderson, "and it is, without doubt, the reason the Central Powers have not been crushed long ago." ...
— The Boy Allies in the Balkan Campaign - The Struggle to Save a Nation • Clair W. Hayes

... [Sidenote: Petrus Maffeius de rebus Iaponicis.] For confirmation wherof, as also for the knowledge of other things not conteyned in the premisses, the curious readers may peruse these 4 volumes of Indian matters written long ago in Italian, and of late compendiously made Latine, by Petrus Maffeius my old acquainted friend, entituling the same, De rubus Iaponicis. One whole letter out of the fift booke thereof, specially intreating of that ...
— The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of - The English Nation, Vol. 11 • Richard Hakluyt

... asked South Africa to open negotiations on reincorporating some nearby South African territories that are populated by ethnic Swazis or that were long ago part ...
— The 1996 CIA Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

... father exclaimed. "Why, you'd ought to be home and abed, long ago. You'll catch your death of cold. ...
— Heart of the Sunset • Rex Beach

... Not long ago you reminded me that once, when you were a boy and I was a schoolmaster, I was angry with you because you pouted all through a lesson in arithmetic. Let bygones be bygones, and accept as a proof of my continuing friendship the dedication of this little volume, ...
— More Cricket Songs • Norman Gale


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