for a long time

Example sentences

• Compared to many countries around the world that have been self-governing for a long time, our state functions well.

  Hodi kompara ho país barak iha mundu ne’ebé ukun kleur ona, ita-nia Estadu funsiona ho di’ak.

• Dad was sick for a long time, now he has gone to the next world.

  Apá moras kleur, agora bá ona mundu seluk.

• For a long time, there was no one to do it.

  Tempu barak, la iha ema ida mak atu halo.

Examples from the 46,000-sentence English–Tetun parallel corpus.