Our long-standing friendship with Degas, which on our mother's side went back to their childhood, was broken off.

He has had a long-standing friendship with the scholar Leon Kass.

So this charge is scurrilous and an effort by people to ruin long-standing friendships.

They soon began a romance that mellowed into a long-standing friendship.

This rumour was just one of many that swirled around the two's long-standing friendship.

"I ask out of our long-standing friendship," Zilin said.

The Afrikaner refused; but his long-standing friendship with the German kept him from reporting the incident.

I speak to you now out of the depths of our long-standing friendship.

"The loans cited are loans from long-standing friendships," he said.

Kate addressed him in the terms of their long-standing friendship.