The interest rates prevailing in one particular year are of no long-term importance.

The President, he said, chose obedience to the law over "the long-term importance of trans-Atlantic values."

Of greater long-term importance to the city, however, are two issues involving social policy and the budget.

But of much greater long-term importance, riblets have also taken to the air.

The figure is considered of long-term importance for the nation to reduce its trade deficit because American companies must produce more at lower costs.

The mass-transit advocates are right about the long-term importance of a full Second Avenue subway line.

In the last decades of the nineteenth century certain new trends of long-term importance began to emerge.

Of greater long-term importance was the fact that the entire work-force was shifting in its age structure towards later ages.

But in an act of greater long-term importance, he also quickly opened Panama to foreign economic penetration, most notably through a new banking law.

But if the worst comes to pass, a delay of one day will be of little long-term strategic importance.