This has been a trend for a long time; the days of lifetime employment are long since over.

The advantage of the consumer businesses is they tend to be much broader-based, much larger number of customers, that tend to over time be a lot more predictable. The advantage of the enterprise companies is they are not as subject to consumer trend, fad, behavior.

I used to like whiskey. But it's been a long time since I've been drunk.

I've been an amature inventor for a long time.

I have been interested in V8s for a long time.

I haven't been on the stage in a long time.