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long forced

English translation: who had for a long time been forced

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English term or phrase:long forced
Selected answer:who had for a long time been forced
Entered by: alen botica (X)

16:25 Sep 28, 2006
English language (monolingual) [PRO]
Bus/Financial - Management / merger
English term or phrase: long forced
All companies in our database had revenues exceeding $500 million. In other words, these were companies long forced to look beyond organic growth for expansion
alen botica (X)
Local time: 08:15
who had for a long time been forced
Explanation:
Just a rather odd idiomatic use...
Selected response from:

David Moore (X)
Local time: 08:15
Grading comment
much obliged
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



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5 +9who had for a long time been forced
David Moore (X)


  

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3 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +9
who had for a long time been forced


Explanation:
Just a rather odd idiomatic use...

David Moore (X)
Local time: 08:15
Works in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 12
Grading comment
much obliged

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Jack Doughty
2 mins
agree  Alexander Demyanov
28 mins
agree  jccantrell: Not too odd, at least in the USA.
1 hr
agree  Suzan Hamer: ". . . these companies had long been forced to look beyond . . ."
1 hr
agree  Armorel Young: yes, or "compelled" if you want another word for "forced"
1 hr
agree  Robert Fox
4 hrs
agree  humbird: Yes forced to "look beyond" in long-term basis .... past, present and future.
4 hrs
agree  ErichEko ⟹⭐
10 hrs
agree  Alfa Trans (X)
9 days
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