longtime professor

Victor Steinbok aardvark66 at GMAIL.COM
Sun Jun 6 16:57:25 UTC 2010


Maybe my radar for odd expressions is off, but it certainly went off on
this one:

http://bit.ly/cs0tpB
> On the Democratic side, attorney Billy Coyle and longtime professor
> Tom Guild have announced their intentions to run.

So what is a "longtime professor" in this context?

     VS-)

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