long since cease
Frequency: 5.03.2 per million words
indicates that something stopped happening a long time ago
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Examples (10)
- The conversation had long since ceased to interest me.
- By the time the rescue team arrived, the signal had long since ceased.
- The old tradition of maypole dancing has long since ceased in our village.
- His influence on the party had long since ceased to be a positive one.
- Its operations had long since ceased before it became a museum.
- The rain had long since ceased, but the ground was still wet.
- She realized the machine's humming, which had long since ceased, was the reason for the silence.
- The company, having long since ceased production of physical books, is now a digital-only publisher.
- Their correspondence had long since ceased by the time he moved away.
- This particular species of bird has long since ceased to migrate to this region.