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idiomin the long run/term(also over the long haul AmE)used in order to talk about the effects that a change, process, or decision will have a long time in the future:Tower blocks were seen as the solution to public housing problems because they were cheap to build, but in the long run they added to the problems because maintenance costs were so high.Artificial turf is unpopular with players because of the damage to joints that it does over the long haul.
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