Sie suchten nach: for a long while now had ... (Englisch - Chinesisch (Vereinfacht))

is speechless for a long while
半晌无言

clenched one's teeth for a long while, then said
半晌才咬牙道

as an example for this could be shown public committee comprising in itself prominent human rights defenders which has been realizing the public control in the penitentiary system for a long while.
在这方面的一个例子是，公共委员会自身就包括了长期任职的人权维护者，该委员会长期以来一直对教管制度实行公共管制。

in 1990, 1.7 times the minimum wage was required to purchase the basic monthly food basket for a household with the characteristics described above, whereas by the beginning of 1999 the figure had fallen to 0.9.
1990年，具有上述特点的家庭每月购买综合基本食品需支付1.7倍的最低工资，然而1999年初，这项比率下跌至0.9。

he said, ‘abraham! are you renouncing my gods? if you do not desist, i will stone you. get away from me for a long while.’
他說：「你厭惡我的主宰嗎？易卜拉欣啊！如果你不停止，我誓必辱罵你。你應當遠離我一個長時期。」

this function can be used by scripts that remain idle for a long while, to check whether or not the server has closed the connection and reconnect if necessary. mysql_ping() returns true if the connection to the server is working, otherwise false.
mysql_ping() checks whether or not the connection to the server is working. if it has gone down, an automatic reconnection is attempted. this function can be used by scripts that remain idle for a long while, to check whether or not the server has closed the connection and reconnect if necessary. mysql_ping() returns true if the connection to the server is working, otherwise false.

18. ukraine knew at first hand what the global humanitarian crisis entailed: its economic difficulties notwithstanding, it now hosted over 3,000 refugees from politically less stable countries and more than 50 per cent of them intended to remain in ukraine for a long while.
18． 乌克兰亲身了解全球人道主义危机的后果：尽管它经济困难，乌克兰目前收容了3000多名来自政治上较不稳定的国家的难民，其中50％打算长时期留在乌克兰。

older works refer, by way of illustration, the expulsion of a three-member french family, the bettingers, from the canton of solothurn in switzerland towards the end of the nineteenth century not only because the family had been for a long time been a public charge, but also because the father and the son had fallen into complete dissoluteness and were no longer able to find anywhere to live, and all the members of the family had in addition become unfit for work.
例如旧的著作中就提到19世纪末将一个三口人的法国家庭(贝延格家庭)驱逐出瑞士索勒尔州的案例，理由不仅是因为这个家庭长久以来需要公共援助，而且因为父子都完全放荡，再找不到住宿地方，整个家庭没有一个人能够工作。