How to Use a long time ago in a Sentence

a long time ago

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• That seems like a long time ago.
  — Matt Le Cren, Chicago Tribune, 10 Mar. 2026
• Moore’s law died a long time ago.
  — Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 21 Nov. 2025
• And that was done a long time ago.
  — Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 14 Mar. 2026
• So that was quite a long time ago.
  — Skyler Caruso, PEOPLE, 11 Dec. 2025
• But that ship sailed a long time ago.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 4 Dec. 2025
• He should’ve been canned a long time ago.
  — Dave Smith, Fortune, 18 Sep. 2025
• That was a long time ago, and feels longer.
  — Mark Leibovich, The Atlantic, 11 Feb. 2026
• My mother died a long time ago.
  — Jeanie Riess, New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2025
• This should have happened a long time ago.
  — David Karpf, The Atlantic, 24 Sep. 2025
• This was a long time ago, and seemed very high tech for the time.
  — Dr. Diane Hamilton, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
• That was a long time ago, but that was the most painful thing to feel.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 14 Jan. 2024
• This was 2013, a long time ago.
  — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 7 Sep. 2025
• But the project’s heyday feels like a long time ago.
  — Holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 29 Aug. 2025
• That was my first QS a long time ago.
  — Karen Billing, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Sep. 2025
• Do the Right Thing was a long time ago.
  — Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 15 Dec. 2025
• But the train ran away from the station a long time ago.
  — Luca Evans, Denver Post, 23 Jan. 2026
• So that was a long time ago, 1985.
  — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 6 Aug. 2025
• Somebody did it a long time ago, many, many decades ago.
  — Jillian Sederholm, Entertainment Weekly, 5 Sep. 2025
• That's, that's something that should have been done a long time ago.
  — Will Steakin, ABC News, 3 Feb. 2025
• That seems like a long time ago, but the wheels of justice, and so forth.
  — Charlie Fink, Forbes.com, 18 Apr. 2025
• The other cabins were torn down a long time ago.
  — Hazlitt, 8 Oct. 2025
• The team’s 13-4-1 start feels like a long time ago.
  — Peter Baugh, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2026
• Well, the show was supposed to come out a long time ago, but for the strikes.
  — Adam B. Vary, Variety, 13 May 2025
• But two years is a long time ago with the wrap-speed changes in the college game.
  — Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 4 Mar. 2025
• The elections should have happened a long time ago.
  — NBC news, 4 Jan. 2026
• Your partner should have stopped all of the conflict a long time ago.
  — Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 1 Oct. 2025
• This could have happened a long time ago, but now is the perfect time.
  — Kyle Denis, Billboard, 3 Feb. 2025
• And the thing is, the grounds for this were established a long time ago.
  — Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2023
• One of Ford’s stories is one that was told to her a long time ago.
  — Frank Vaisvilas, Journal Sentinel, 19 Jan. 2024
• That’s a long time ago, but don’t worry, the jokes are as salty as ever.
  — Randy McMullen, Mercury News, 5 Mar. 2026