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Chris -- 2025-05-10
To view an event or decision over the long haul is to take an extended temporal perspective, so as to see the ultimate, entire, (whole) effects of that event or decision. Examples:
Now they committed themselves to a policy of full disclosure, but I need to make sure that that policy is sustained in the long whole.
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This means that they are in for the long whole and Echostar and DirecTv better look because VOOM will be moving at a fast pace.
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A little better composition of thoughts would be better but in the long whole, your article has certainly made an impact…
www.ultimate-guitar.com/columns/ junkyard/music_and_politics_round_2.html
Ah, okay so I see the canning is more up front cost but less later frrezing is less upfront but more over the long whole…
groups.yahoo.com/group/ squarefootgardening/messages/2201?viscount=100
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I doubt that they are references to the ceilings, but “over the long HALL” gets 308 hits on Google as well.
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