The building is still in existence but has long ceased to be used for its original purpose.

Europe has long ceased to be a leader in the area of innovation.

The games ceased not long after Father died, although it was not his death that brought them to an end.

His own career having long ceased to concern him, Rubin lived only for the higher cause of humanity.

The regulation's specific provisions have long ceased to be adequate.

In most of America, weather-wise at least, spring has long ceased to be a clearly defined season.

No one knew quite what to make of that, and the ribald comments ceased within his hearing not long after.

Utah has long ceased being an agrarian society of a "peculiar people."

Mining has long ceased, and it is a tranquil holiday retreat.

This would have been a method of reckoning time, had not Dantes long ceased to do so.