很久以来

• this many a day

例句

1. 很久以来，他一直想从事写作。
   For a long time he had wanted to take up writing.
2. 如果我不是习惯了听到这种回答，我都可能不相信，因为很久以来我已确信这个情况：能看得见的人却看不到什么。
   I might have been incredulous had I not been accustomed to such reposes, for long ago I became convinced that the seeing see little.