long-standing

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Asked whether the state will continue to adhere to its long-standing post-fire soil sampling protocols, the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services wouldn’t directly answer whether it would pay for soil testing after future wildfires.

From Los Angeles Times

But it added that it had been "a long-standing priority under successive governments" to work for his release.

From Barron's

The Foreign Office said it had been "a long-standing priority under successive governments" to work for Abdel Fattah's release and see him reunited with his family in the UK, but condemned his posts as "abhorrent".

From BBC

Yet most of that life is made up of very small organisms, raising a long-standing question about why large predators would linger there for so long.

From Science Daily

The previous Conservative administration had also lobbied for the activist to be freed and a government spokesman said: "He is a British citizen. It has been a long-standing priority under successive governments to work for his release from detention, and to see him reunited with his family in the UK."

From BBC