1.   Any of them would be a major upgrade . . . Many have long believed Al Davis will settle on offensive coordinator Bill Callahan as his head coach in Oakland.

2.   In many cases, even the later patent deadlines originally sought have long since passed.

3.   Psychiatrists, psychologists and advocates for the mentally ill have long sought such a requirement.

4.   Researchers long have known that animals fed a nutritious but low-calorie diet live twice as long as animals on normal diets.

5.   The bad news is that those who have been repressed for so long have neither the know-how or the money to convert to democracy.

6.   The digitally savvy have long whispered about the mesmerizing capacity of life on line.

7.   The respected TV journalist also noted that both state and defense attorneys have long been paying specialists for their testimony.

8.   The truly rich have long understood that the more money one has, the more luxurious anonymity becomes.

9.   Thus, multinationals have long been able to rationalize their use of low-wage labor or abusive subcontractors by appealing to the unstoppable force of global competition.

10.   Too many results for too long have seemed inexplicable.