has tardado mucho tiempo

Ex: We'll be able to purchase equipment we've been wanting for ages: an electronic offset printer; collators and folding machines and other graphic production-related paraphernalia.

Ex: Many libraries are reluctant to reclassify stock and many libraries leave stock classified according to earlier editions long after the earlier edition has been superseded.

Ex: Less often, the poem ending is interpreted as meaning that we can only determine the value of the choice ' ages and ages hence'.

Ex: It has thus contributed to the cause of 'universal bibliographic control' long before this phrase came into vogue.

Ex: Regardless of their physical characteristics, individual books in a circulating comics collection are not expected to last long = Independientemente de sus características físicas, no es normal que los ejemplares de una colección de préstamo de tebeos duren mucho.

Ex: Some of these sites were once large private estates long since transformed in to public parks and wildlife preserves = Algunos de estos lugares fueron grandes propiedades privadas que desde hace tiempo pasaron a ser parques públicos y reservas naturales.

Ex: New technologies are making long-cherished concepts held by all information handlers -- librarians, archivists, record managers -- seem mere provincialisms rather than sacred theory or immutable principles.

Ex: Rocket scientists, long considered the gold standard in intelligence among all professionals, are not nearly as smart as originally thought.

Ex: The current environment in higher education is providing an opportunity for librarians to define a future that will ensure their central role in the educational process and thus resolve these remaining age-old questions.

Ex: Libraries have long recognised the benefits of co-operating in catalogue production.

Ex: In the Mediterranean the galley propelled by oars long remained the principal type of war vessel.