0 used to refer to a relation, friend, or object that you have not seen for a long time:
my long-lost cousin
Such hypotheses often included the superior masculinity of the long-lost men.
Sometimes, after a few years' absence, a participant will return, and we greet them as long-lost friends and listen to their stories.
Subsequently, we began to see our structure as a sort of long-lost cousin from this rather eccentric family and consciously invested it with a visual memory.
Anyone who is involved with this kind of work knows the thrill of disclosing some long-lost manuscript or archival record.
Indeed, in its report the council recognises that the process of re-afforestation will but restore a long-lost woodland cover to open landscape.
The notion that his wife will be made more accountable and that the new system will rekindle a long-lost interest in municipal affairs is rubbish.
I was intrigued to see a long-lost interest in insolvency matters coming to the fore.
He becomes acquainted with long-lost relatives and attempts to solve the mystery of his father's sudden departure from the town decades earlier.
