long-standing

adjective

1. existing or in effect for a long time

Example Sentences

First, Palmer's girlfriend of long standing, Paula, drops by.

From The Daily Beast

And so some long-standing policies have changed dramatically and in a hurry.

From The Daily Beast

Republican fealty to the interests of the investor class has been long-standing.

From The Daily Beast

Russian surveillance planes already fly over America, thanks to a long-standing treaty.

From The Daily Beast

A mother in her forties wrote that she had long-standing problems which she was desperate not to transmit to her daughter.

From The Daily Beast

The church has lately been much enlarged, and the long-standing rebuke no more exists.

From Project Gutenberg

The basophilic variety is less common, and is confined to long-standing severe myelogenous leukemia.

From Project Gutenberg

This letter indirectly points out two long-standing radical errors in engineering phraseology.

From Project Gutenberg

Even where there is a long standing friendship it is not well to visit uninvited.

From Project Gutenberg

If thus used two or three days in succession it will effectually loosen tartar, even of long standing.

From Project Gutenberg