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The set that includes humans has been "superimposed" on the native set by a longpast experiment in "terraforming," which came close to xenocide.
Orson Scott Card's Three-Decade Run Tom Shippey 2011
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It made sense at the time when calls were switched by a human operator, but that time is longpast.
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It made sense at the time when calls were switched by a human operator, but that time is longpast.
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Obamacare is a huge, vague, nebulous target, but once it solidifies, the time for stopping it will be longpast.
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It is longpast the time for the Illinois Tenth to elect a congressman who will chose to find the truth, tell us the truth and work with the truth to find real solutions to real problems.
Archive 2007-12-01 Ellen Beth Gill 2007
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It is longpast the time for the Illinois Tenth to elect a congressman who will chose to find the truth, tell us the truth and work with the truth to find real solutions to real problems.
Iran-amok in the Illinois Tenth or Why Mark Kirk Can't Get His Intelligence Straight, Part II Ellen Beth Gill 2007
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She saw those great horses with their lanced riders thundering after her like some unarmoured jousters of a longpast age; and she ran as she had never run before.
Salvage for the Saint Charteris, Leslie, 1907- 1983
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Familiar as it stands in the writer's recollection, -- for it has been an object of curiosity with him from boyhood, both as a specimen of the best and stateliest architecture of a longpast epoch, and as the scene of events more full of human interest, perhaps, than those of a gray feudal castle, -- familiar as it stands, in its rusty old age, it is therefore only the more difficult to imagine the bright novelty with which it first caught the sunshine.
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a longpast epoch, and as the scene of events more full of human interest, perhaps, than those of a gray feudal castle, -- familiar as it stands, in its rusty old age, it is therefore only the more difficult to imagine the bright novelty with which it first caught the sunshine.
House of the Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834
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