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long-standing
adjective as in existing for some time
Example Sentences
In part, this is the result of two long-standing trends: Houses keep getting bigger, while households keep getting smaller.
It acknowledges the general election is a factor, but says the new government must reflect on the long-standing problems in NHS dentistry.
Furthermore, the technical advances the team made to accomplish this study, may have long-standing applications for neuroscience research, Malenka added.
Responding to long-standing dissatisfaction over the effectiveness of homelessness programs, Supervisors Lindsey Horvath and Kathryn Barger are proposing a new county department that would take over hundreds of millions of dollars of contracts currently overseen by the much-maligned Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority and consolidate programs scattered among several county agencies.
Studying gene activity in the brain without requiring invasive tissue samples from surgery or post-mortem donation has been a long-standing challenge in neuroscience.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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