I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a big/long scar
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For the patients, keyhole surgery means no big scar.
a brief/short/long hiatus
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There was a brief hiatus in the war.
a deep/long breath (= in which you breathe a lot of air in slowly )
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She took a deep breath and knocked on the door.
a long absence
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She was apprehensive about studying again after such a long absence.
a long bath
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A long hot bath is a great way of relaxing.
a long beach
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All around the coast of Lanzarote are long beaches of golden sand.
a long campaign
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Her father fought a long campaign for an investigation to be held.
a long chat
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We sat down and had a long chat.
a long day
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I got up at 5 this morning so it’s been a long day.
a long dress (= that goes down to your ankles )
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Most of the women were wearing long dresses.
a long face (= an unhappy expression )
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What’s the long face for?
a long hill
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The bus started going up the long hill into town.
a long journey
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They arrived tired from their long journey.
a long moment
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He was silent for a long moment before replying.
a long night (= a night when you do not sleep or you work hard )
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Everyone was tired and grumpy. It had been a long night.
a long nightmare
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How can we bring an end to the long nightmare in the Middle East?
a long ordeal
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After thirteen days, the hostages' long ordeal finally ended.
a long pause
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There was a long pause before anyone spoke.
a long rest
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What I need is a nice long rest.
a long shadow
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Long shadows stretched across the grass from the apple trees.
a long sigh
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With a long sigh, she tried to shake off her sombre mood.
a long silence
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‘He’s dead.’ There was a long silence.
a long sleep
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He needed a decent meal and a long sleep.
a long slope
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The street led up a long slope.
a long stare
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The man fixed him with a long, deliberate stare.
a long stay
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During his long stay in the south, he painted only one portrait.
a long strike
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Most teachers wouldn’t be in favour of a long strike.
a long talk
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I had a long talk with Nora this morning.
a long time
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I haven’t seen him for a long time.
a long tradition
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This country has a long tradition of accepting political refugees.
a long vacation
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She decided to take a long vacation.
a long walk
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We went for a long walk in the woods.
a long weekend (= Saturday, Sunday, and also Friday or Monday or both )
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In August we had a long weekend in the Lake District.
a long word
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She didn’t understand all the long words.
a long/great/considerable distance
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The sound of guns seemed a long distance away.
a long/leisurely breakfast (= not hurried )
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On Sunday mornings I like to have a leisurely breakfast.
a long/lengthy battle
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his long battle with alcoholism
a long/lengthy delay
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Patients often face long delays in getting the treatment they need.
a long/lengthy description
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I didn't want to hear a lengthy description of their holiday.
a long/lengthy period
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They had to spend long periods apart.
a long/lingering kiss
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He gave her a a long, slow, lingering kiss.
a long/long-term lease
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We’re negotiating a long-term lease on the building.
a long/prolonged spell
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We have just had a long spell of unusually dry weather.
a long/short illness
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She nursed him through his long illness.
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Arthur died following a short illness.
a short/long ride
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I climbed slowly aboard the bus for the long ride to Hawkesworth.
a stiff/long sentence (= a long time in prison )
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Police officers are demanding stiffer sentences for offenders.
all night long (= used to emphasize that something continues for the whole night )
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The noise continued all night long!
before long (= soon )
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Other students joined in the protest, and before long there was a crowd of 200 or so.
come a long way
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I’ve come a long way to see you.
fall far/a long way/well short of sth
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Facilities in these schools fall far short of the standards required.
fall into a deep/long etc sleep (= start sleeping deeply, for a long time etc )
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He lay down on his bed and fell into a deep sleep.
far too much/long/busy etc
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That’s far too much to pay.
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It would take me far too long to explain.
for as long as...live
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I’ll never forget this for as long as I live .
go back a long way (= we have been friends for a long time )
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We go back a long way .
grow your hair (long) (= let it grow longer )
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I’m growing my hair long, but it’s taking forever.
grow...long
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I’ve decided to grow my hair long .
have a good/bad/long etc day
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Simon looked as if he’d had a bad day at the office.
have a good/long/unusual etc menu
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The new restaurant on Fifth Street has an excellent menu.
have a long memory (= if you have a long memory, you remember things for a long time )
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He has a long memory for people who have let him down.
have a long/happy etc marriage
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They have a happy marriage.
how much more/longer/further
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How much longer do we have to wait?
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How much further is it?
in...for the long haul (= going to stay involved until the end )
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I’m in this for the long haul .
it’s been a long...haul
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At last we’ve won our freedom but it’s been a long bitter haul .
living...longer
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People on average are living much longer than before.
long ago/a long time ago
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He should have finished at university long ago, but he kept taking extra courses.
long ago/a long time ago
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He should have finished at university long ago, but he kept taking extra courses.
long and hard (= hard, for a long time, before making a decision )
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I thought long and hard about taking the role.
long boots (= as high as your knees or thighs )
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I bought a pair of long leather boots.
long dead (= dead for a long time )
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All those people I knew then are long dead now.
long division
long drawn-out
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The government wants to avoid a long drawn-out war against the rebel forces.
long exile
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The first of many refugees have finally returned home from a long exile in Senegal.
long experience (= experience gained over a long period of time )
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New prison officers are partnered by officers with long experience of dealing with violent prisoners.
long hard look (= examine very carefully )
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This month, take a long hard look at where your money is going.
long history
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The 1970s were the most successful in the theatre's long history.
long johns
long jump
long line
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This is the latest in a long line of political scandals.
long on...short on
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The president’s speech was long on colorful phrases but short on solutions.
long overdue
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We welcome this announcement and think it’s long overdue .
long past
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Come on Annie, it’s long past your bedtime.
long past
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a tradition rooted in times long past
long stretches of time
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She doesn’t leave the house for long stretches of time .
long wave
long (= lasting a long time )
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The long winter finally came to an end.
long
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His nose was long and his chin square.
long (= a long period between getting engaged and getting married )
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Neither of them wanted a long engagement.
long
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A few of the boys had long hair.
long
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Her long nails were painted a pearly pink.
long
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The Severn is the longest river in Britain.
long
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Some dinosaurs had long necks and equally long tails.
long
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The speeches were all really long.
long/big
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Already a long queue had formed outside the concert hall
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There was a big queue.
longer/higher/worse etc than usual
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It is taking longer than usual for orders to reach our customers.
long/lengthy
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Try to be patient through the long process of healing.
long/lengthy
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After lengthy negotiations, a compromise was finally reached.
long/short blast
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a long trumpet blast
long/short
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I was very tired after the long flight.
long/short
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She was thrilled to get a long letter from her son.
long/short
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He read out a long list of errors.
long...take
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How long is this going to take ?
long/three-hour/two-week etc wait
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There was an hour wait before the next train departed.
nice big/new/long etc
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a nice long holiday
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a nice new car
not long afterwards
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She died not long afterwards .
short/long skirt
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a short skirt and high heels
some/a little/a long way ahead
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The clinic was now in sight, some way ahead.
soon/not long/shortly after (sth)
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Not long after the wedding, his wife became ill.
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The family moved to Hardingham in June 1983, and Sarah’s first child was born soon after.
tall/long
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I walked with the tall grass brushing my knees.
the longest recession
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The British economy was in its longest recession since the Second World War.
thought long and hard
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He had thought long and hard before getting involved with the project.
travel a great/long etc distance
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In some countries children must travel great distances to school each day.
wait long (= wait a long time – used especially in questions or negative sentences )
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She did not have to wait long for a train.
wake/be woken from a deep/long etc sleep
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A very long time later I woke from a deep sleep.
wear your hair long/in a ponytail etc (= have that style of hair )
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He wore his hair in a ponytail.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
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None of this is likely to change the dynamics of stadium-bidding, as long as the sports-league cartels distort the market.
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This profiling process can go on for as long as two or three weeks.
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Some analysts wonder how Mr Ayling survived as long as he did.
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The laws hold only as long as no other factors enter in, which might modify them in particular cases.
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State Farm, an insurance company, keeps its agents for twice as long as the industry average.
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Plenty of room there for plucking new generations of consumers, as long as salesmanship remains legal.
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Commercial and cargo flights would be allowed as long as they were inspected at their departure points.
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Yet they persist anyway-at least they do as long as they are leaders.
how
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No, I don't know how long .
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An analysis of how long it will take for all HIV-infected cells to die off.
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There was the main staircase she had climbed with Clive a while - how long ? - ago.
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The whole Galaxy is, and has been for Space knows how long .
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But how long must it be?
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Officials are unsure how long it will take for Bonin to die.
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She had genuinely possessed no idea of how long servants worked, and for how little.
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And how long will they not believe in me, in spite of all the signs which I have wrought among them?
much
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That will not go on much longer .
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Now all that was left of the farm was a very thin goat which would not last much longer .
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It may not rage much longer .
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A teaspoon of domestic antiseptic, like Savlon, in their water will give them a much longer life.
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Ladies, you don't have to wait much longer .
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I just feel it can't go on much longer .
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However they may not need a bus much longer .
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I am sorry to inform you that hair that splits excessively probably won't grow much longer .
no
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It is no longer enough simply to say that the hypothesis is too speculative and does not deserve to be tested.
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When you are chronically stressed because of work and demands, your hormones no longer ebb and flow normally.
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But now I get the feeling that fantasy is no longer enough.
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Danley said that the Union no longer had the majority support of the employees.
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But a strange thing has happened: I no longer understand exactly what it was I did in advertising.
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There are no teeth, no long , lower-jaw, no huge lower lip and hardly any tongue.
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It may be only when we no longer think of ourselves as internet users that the virtual age will truly have arrived.
so
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By waiting so long , it has made itself vulnerable to a systemic collapse.
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Anyway, it may not matter whom Dole selects, so long as the person is not a Quayle-style political liability.
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They took so long to repair the pipe that the ceiling was black and bits of plaster were falling off.
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That team camaraderie is probably why I had played basketball so long .
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But I haven't bothered with dresses for so long - it brings back some happy memories of my young days.
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The decision had taken so long and polio had so retreated from public concern that it was all anticlimactic.
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The end of an era has come, but it's a shame it took so long to arrive.
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It took so long to get herself back because both her professional and personal independence were jeopardized by motherhood.
too
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We have stayed too long within doors.
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Behind the current absurdity here lies a novel assertion by House Speaker Newt Gingrich that has gone unexamined for too long .
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A whole day was too long - even a few hours would be too late.
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I guess because it seemed to take too long .
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Even the precautions he took could not allay her fears and it wasn't too long before he gave up trying.
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Thirty-three years is a long time to outlive a son, too long.
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That can be very disappointing, especially if they leave it too long .
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It was not too long after the game that the police sirens started.
very
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Many of these had not been Christians for very long .
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His music will continue to be performed for a very long time.
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They didn't speak for a very long time.
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The truss system requires a very long lead time.
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Although they enjoyed their lifestyle there was evidence that very long hours were worked, greater than the individual enterprises actually required.
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It has a very long neck like a duck, and the front of the body sometimes has a faint purple tinge.
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However, since in this situation customers never knew what they were buying, the scheme didn't last very long .
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He started by doing stints in the three main factories in London, Manchester and Edinburgh, often working very long hours.
■ NOUN
day
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It'd been a long day and the preceding nights had been nightmarish - literally.
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Graham, who was about twenty years older than Harrison, became his patron at the end of one long day together.
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After that it was all weather: frosts and rains and spring and summer, and the long days growing longer.
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When my son and I go home to an already long day , my day is not over by a long shot.
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Everyone is contemplating an early night - it has been a long day , one of the busiest for a while.
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The long day had begun with a mean dumping, but it had almost no end of possibilities, she mused.
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A long day was in store.
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It had been a long day .
delay
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There was then a long delay for which no explanation has been given.
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And finally, the bottom line, is the budget approved without long delay and nit-picking?
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This caused long delays and confusion.
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The book lags in the middle, the pacing slowed by an overly long delay in getting to the murder scene.
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Attendance at clinic is probably encouraged by avoiding long delays and making the visit worthwhile.
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David Campos, the chief investigator, is troubled by the long delay .
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You will be notified if a longer delay is expected.
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When there is a long delay in starting treatment, the depression may be prolonged.
distance
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Nearly half of these poorer people came from within a 20-mile radius, but some of the others came long distances .
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Category one services are likely to include international long distance , intra-city long distance and local phone calls.
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The booklet was criticised during its draft stages for including details of accommodation such a long distance away.
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In contrast to other parts of the country, she noted, Southern Californians willingly drive long distances for fun and work.
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Advice centre plus hostel for homeless wives, or those travelling long distances .
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By vastly cheapening the carriage of heavy materials over long distances , the canals also brought about indirect changes in the landscape.
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Sometimes children commute long distances from home to school, from school to juku.
drive
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Scottie loved travelling and behaved splendidly during the long drives and sailing periods.
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In my family, we established traditions for talking on long drives .
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Cattle were no longer taken on long drives , but were delivered by rail and cattle drives were then made illegal.
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He walks up and down the long drive through the park.
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As we're leaving for our long drive home, Ali walks us to the car and closes our doors.
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It's a long drive home to Beverly Hills.
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The long drive to the house climbed to the main door.
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Glover thought his silent thoughts on Lucky as they made the long drive .
hair
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I would really love to have long hair but it never seems to grow at the back, only at the fringe!
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And he has long hair and funny eye-glasses.
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She was kneeling on a kitchen chair, her long hair trailing in the margarine, when she heard the steps.
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I recognized one musician who had long hair and the slanted eyes of a Tatar.
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She brushed her long hair into a shining mane and arranged it carefully around her shoulders.
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His long hair stopped neatly at the level where it curved most attractively, but his shave was indifferent.
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The girls' long hair flowing over tight turtle-neck sweaters, eyes darkened against pale skin.
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Quickly, Della let down her beautiful, long hair .
haul
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It is a long haul for schools.
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Over the long haul , how you see others may be even more important in helping your dreams come true.
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A buyer for the long haul would not skate far past the optimal point and towards bankruptcy costs.
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More plentiful adult material, about sexuality for the long haul , would have deepened the work.
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Waterville Valley and the World Cup finals in late March was going to be a long haul .
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It sounds like hell over the long haul .
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It had been a long haul .
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The county could subsidize the longer hauls from North County through a discount on tip fees.
history
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Public expenditure control has a long history dating back to the early eighteenth century.
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They usually have long histories of negative self-perceptions and do not expect their teachers to be truly interested in them.
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Although regulations relating to health and safety have a long history , the sweep and scope of the new powers are unprecedented.
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Local government Local government audit has a long history .
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She has a long history of difficulty with her parents.
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But these positive achievements were enmeshed with the longer history of middle-class women's involvement in social regulation and class disciplining.
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Edey said Avanesian acknowledged a long history of domestic discord with his wife.
journey
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She sat bolt upright in the back seat during the hour long journey , some of which was on a motorway.
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He said he felt very comfortable during the long journey .
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The boat was too small for a long journey , and I did not want to die at sea.
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A young woman whose pagan father locked her in a tower before leaving on a long journey .
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Even on long journeys early trains had no corridors, lavatories, dining cars or heating.
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I wondered what it would be like to travel on this long journey .
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Our lives journey is a life long journey and our promised land is nothing other than heaven itself.
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It was not a long journey and as the sun was shining it was a very pleasant one.
jump
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They will also clash in the senior women's long jump and the shot.
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Carl Lewis has done it in the 100 and 200 meters, tossing in the long jump for good measure.
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Avoid the aliens, a super long jump will get you over the other two.
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Ewry also took the standing long jump at 11-4 and the standing triple jump with a whopping 37-7.
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The long jump , javelin and 800 are on the second.
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Was it Carl Lewis falling prostrate after his gold medal long jump ?
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This is one country where he never was going to grab the gold medal in the long jump .
leg
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He was just there, with his long legs and his smooth shoulders and his golden hair and his pride.
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She keeps walking, her long legs taking long, purposeful strides.
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Her forearms and much of her long legs were bare, visible, pale as her face.
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She swung her long legs over the side of the bed and got up.
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Smallish plover-like birds, with fairly long legs and pointed bills.
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This is a terribly uncomfortable position, unless you have either very long legs or a big rear end.
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Through her hair, which now lay in a tangle about her face, she saw a pair of long legs flex.
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His long legs were wrapped round it, and he was clutching at a dangling light fitting.
life
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They are among the dozens of people in this beautiful, isolated region who live extraordinarily long lives .
line
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In the shorter term, cyanide fishing also depletes stocks faster than the traditional use of long lines , or even nets.
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That means long lines and lengthy delays at skycap stations and ticket counters.
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The long line of hedge bordering the next field was a good fifty yards away.
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Neill triumphantly flies in the face of a long line of buffoon kings on film.
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The name Venturous was a break from the long line of traditional names for Cutters as it had never previously been used.
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There were probably long lines at confession that next week.
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Two Tyne class and the last of the long line of Aruns had also gone to their new stations.
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Some delegates later lingered in long lines to shake her hand.
list
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The Robins' main problem, is a long list of injuries.
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It was the job world that generated those long lists of qualifications that discriminated against people who did not have good educations.
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That is just one of many anomalies in what will be a long list in Committee.
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Bond ticks off a long list of social dances that over the years have offended the over-30 set.
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It's one of a long list of endangered species in a 2 hour Central Documentary tonight.
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I am glad that I have written out the long list of what I have endured in the last several months.
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A long list of names yes, but there's nothing larger here than a quintet format.
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It would be a very long list .
night
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They pulled out a book and a thermos flask, and settled in for the long night ahead.
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Pad and pencil were more than Glover could take after a long night under the weight of his thought.
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Many long nights he would brood in his tower, and soon he was turned stoop-shouldered and prematurely old by his duties.
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Once after a long night of studies, a fellow student told Richardson she looked a little tired.
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During the long night , the car would have been joined silently by another.
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Even after the long night he smelled nutty and clean.
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It was the longest night she had ever spent.
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The live one had lain across him all that horrible long night in the storm.
pause
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There was a long pause , one more breath, and that was all.
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There was a long pause while he picked his teeth and looked down into the seat of his chair.
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Apparently they did, for there was a long pause before the door hissed open.
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A long pause , then the pointer went to fifty.
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The other pair of feet moved round to join the pair by the driver's door ... long pause .
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There was a long pause as we all tried to hold back the giggles.
period
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These may seem long periods but the work was so well done that the paintwork was never shabby.
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But such research would require staggering amounts of money 21 and very long periods of time.
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In general, elite settlements stem from long periods of conflict and crises that threaten to rekindle widespread violence.
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Fortunately the Pequod picks him up after a long period in the water.
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This relationship, for very long periods , was in equilibrium.
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By comparison, the average return from investing in stocks over long periods of time has been about 7 percent above inflation.
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For a longer period than in years gone by they can expect to be on their own together.
range
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They are responsible for the long range planning activities of the firm and they will set the overall goals.
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Even at long range , without the help of an on board computer, Earth could still supervise this operation.
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The Helblaster has a strength of 5 at short range and 4 at long range.
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This means, of course, that each killing will have to take place at medium to long range .
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This has no mass of its own, so the force that it carries is long range .
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Impacts on land are severe short-range hazards, but impacts in the ocean are dangerous even at very long ranges .
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He jinked and tried a burst at long range , but the Halberstadt was diving hard now and pulling away.
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He must be distracted from long range dangers by absorbing his mind in temporary pleasures.
run
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And although there is usually another promise about interest rates, in the long run it usually means very little.
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The funding to do anything, however, must in the long run derive from national resources.
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In the long run , persistent current account deficits are difficult and costly to sustain and are damaging to an economy.
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The time spent doing this will be worthwhile in the long run .
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In the long run , this was thought to be about 3 percent per year.
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In the long run , the outcome of the Delphi Chassis strike could be less important than the walkout itself.
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It's expensive but worth it in the long run .
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In the long run , both absorbed their invaders, but at very great cost.
shot
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He had not told Rory everything, not by a long shot .
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Well, actually, he wanted two things, but he knew the second was a long shot .
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It does no harm to write to the nearest local residents and businesses, but generally this is a long shot .
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Not always, by a long shot .
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And the policeman wanted to check his facts before deciding to take a chance on a long shot .
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Mr Purple was a 300-1 long shot .
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Some long shots burnished their chances, some favourites lost ground.
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When my son and I go home to an already long day, my day is not over by a long shot .
silence
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A long silence fell between us.
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Eventually the ground seemed to stabilize and there was a long silence during which the mist curled slowly upwards.
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There was a long silence as Merrill fought a desire to drop the subject which had goaded her ever since Elise died.
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The reply is a long , long silence .
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There was a longer silence from the other end of the phone this time.
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There is a long silence , broken only by a man belching and a topless, middle-aged woman giggling.
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The shuffling stopped, followed by a long silence .
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The long silence that followed would become a familiar feature of night raids filled with uncertainty and pregnant with disaster.
story
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But a long story was an indulgence.
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Civilization is in fact the longest story of all.
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To cut a long story short, he threw them out of the house.
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To make a long story short, this went through three levels of maintenance, all with the same result.
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To cut a long story short, they did rejoin us at lunch-time, De Gaulle no longer looking shit-scared so much as downright shifty.
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The longest story is so full of pathos that the joke lines elicit only sympathy, not laughter.
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It's not a long story .
stretch
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Foreign language learners need to enter into long stretches of communication, in real and complex situations.
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She was last seen alive early that evening on a long stretch of deserted road outside Aurora.
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The long stretch of the spit curved ahead of me.
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The long stretch of joblessness had started him reflecting philosophically about friendship.
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This grouping worked quite efficiently, and a long stretch of fence was built on Donald's first day.
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Two years ago, we had a lot of hot fires and were going for a long stretch .
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It was an almost unbelievable sight in this desolate landscape, a long stretch of vivid blue water fringed by green reedbeds.
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Players work long stretches gathering clues without a villain in sight.
term
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Beyond these direct consequences such labs have implications for the long term development of the host-country's scientific capacity and capability.
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And, no matter how modestly it begins, the effort must be sustainable over the long term .
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Yet in the longer term a regime resting upon the narrowing social base of the landowning nobility was doomed.
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We consider him a valuable asset, so we had to respond to keep him for the long term .
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In the long term , he argues correctly, this is in the shareholders' interest too.
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Any outstanding debt repayment requirements and / or restrictive covenants on long term debt agreements are additional important. considerations.
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The dams etc may also have been designed to attract industry and so benefit the country in the long term .
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And in government, accounting systems give the long term short shrift.
time
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But to tell the truth, for a long time I've been slightly lost as a dealer.
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The ferret can drink and will live a long time should it escape.
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We kissed for a long time .
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Frankly, she could survive in great happiness for a very long time without ever setting eyes on him again.
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But to wrench Aunt Lou from the home which had been hers for such a long time would be to kill her.
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Several minutes later, her husband noticed that the water had been running for what seemed like a long time .
tradition
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Tamayo's insistence on using new materials to construct his prints is very much part of a long tradition in modern art.
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Established in 1912, Olympus has a long tradition of good design, using the finest materials and quality craftsmanship.
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This is in line with a long tradition and there may be more established composers willing to accept such commissions than is realised.
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There is a long tradition of attending Ballycastle Fair, and some still go.
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Swindon Town and Oxford United fans have a long tradition of rivalry.
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Social History Ulster has a long tradition of rural industry and peasant agriculture.
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This has not consisted simply of middle-class reformers defining the working-class family as problematic, for which there is a long tradition .
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A family with a long tradition of service at the head of which is a woman of very strong high moral values.
wait
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Ironically, later auf became a local expression for a long wait , or working for nothing.
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Blue resigns himself to a long wait and then settles down with his newspapers and magazines.
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There was running and shouting outside, then a long wait in silence.
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And if you around here looking for justice, you got a long wait .
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But as you've got a long wait for the next production, let's move on to the town itself.
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Walking without tripping was enough after such a long wait .
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Ferguson can not afford to wait if United are to end their long wait for the League title this season.
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More frequent and longer waits for services and entertainment.
walk
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From Seelisberg there is a longer walk which is particularly rewarding in the sustained panoramic views it offers.
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On the long walk down the hall Glover picked a crawling pace calculated to paralyze an opponent this young.
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He wrote and asked father if I might go out with him on one of his long walks .
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You took a long walk in the park or through some interesting part of town.
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For variety and to make a longer walk you can try the three circular walks which leave the towpath at various points.
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During his long walk home, he tried to figure out how to justify a return visit.
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The children took Ben for long walks , again crossing the rape fields.
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I walked , after a few cold beers, to the edge of town, and it was a long walk.
way
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The new, improved materials available have gone a long way towards extending the lifespan of today's flat roof.
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These will go a long way to lessen the real danger of accidental war or nuclear catastrophe due to misinformation.
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A long way ahead of him, a young woman was walking, slowly, swinging her handbag.
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When your fingers do the walk-ing, they can travel a long way these days.
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The dawn was a long way away.
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We had walked a long way together.
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She's a long way away.
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Still, Apple has a long way to go.
while
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When the names and numbers were read out it was a long while before we heard the name of Deerhurst.
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They played together for a long while .
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He hasn't play in the 1st team since a long while and will be bring some enthusiasm to the team.
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A baby carriage was overturned, and a heavy rain of black ash descended for a long while afterward.
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Apart from a few weddings she hadn't been inside a church for a long while .
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For a long while after that first day, I could not live with the dead woman and her possessions.
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For a long while , the crime question provided the principal means to underscore the cultural concerns of this new nationalist racism.
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I stood there for a long while , gazing at him.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a fast/good/long etc ball
▪
A bit like Dorigo ie he can cross a good ball when necessary.
▪
Anyway he is 24, is a good ball winner and throws himself around a bit.
▪
Jackson will supplant Charlie Ward as the starting point guard, giving the team a better ball distributor.
▪
Leeds do play a lot of football, but they hit a long ball as well.
▪
Phillips seized on a long ball and found himself with only Manninger to beat.
▪
Pow, Janir hit a long ball into the blackberry bushes beside the creek.
▪
Root threw me a fast ball .
a little (of sth) goes a long way
▪
A little ketchup goes a long way.
▪
Clearly, a little imagination goes a long way.
▪
Like a powerful adhesive, a little of it goes a long way.
as long as you like/as much as you like etc
as long as your arm
▪
Instead of hiring child care I traded it with other parents: I had a list as long as my arm .
▪
Mr Linley stuck out a microphone as long as his arm , right up to those ragged jaws.
▪
My record's as long as my arm - even longer.
at (long) last
▪
At last , we were able to afford a house.
▪
And I, at last , had some one to talk to.
▪
And then, at last , I crossed a high mountain pass to discover smoke drifting across my route.
▪
But his work lives on, and after decades of neglect he is rediscovered, celebrated anew and recognized at last .
▪
Lendl's 7-6 6-2 defeat by Omar Camporese follows his opening match loss at last week's Madrid Open.
▪
Now, at last , they are coming home.
▪
Well, at last I got my chance.
be a long shot
▪
It does no harm to write to the nearest local residents and businesses, but generally this is a long shot .
▪
It was a long shot , but he might have been calling from his usual hotel in Lagos.
▪
It was a long shot , of course, but if she looked carefully she might find something.
▪
It was a long shot , very long.
▪
This is a long shot , but I still want to try it.
▪
We are long shots and we are approaching it that way.
▪
Well, actually, he wanted two things, but he knew the second was a long shot .
be a long time/10 years etc in the making
by a long way
▪
And before they went there I thought they would, by a long way .
▪
He plays both but his preference, and by a long way , is for gaelic football.
▪
In the home market, it led the field by a long way , with 4,337,487 units sold.
▪
It is by a long way his preferred title when he refers to himself.
▪
It is, by a long way , the greatest test yet of whether he is up to the job.
▪
Moreover, the pretty paper kites in the clear blue skies still outnumber the documentary versions by a long way .
▪
The expense allowances they received often failed, sometimes by a long way , to cover the costs they had to meet.
for the long haul
go a long way towards doing sth
▪
And Monday's game will go a long way towards determining Wright's future.
▪
For it was he who arranged the finance which went a long way towards putting the station on the air.
▪
Friedman's statement of the natural rate hypothesis went a long way towards reconciling such evidence with basic classical theory.
▪
In doing so it can go a long way towards lifting the depression which has afflicted too many teachers in recent years.
▪
Schema theory can go a long way towards explaining the sender's choice and arrangement of information in communication.
▪
The new, improved materials available have gone a long way towards extending the lifespan of today's flat roof.
▪
This decision goes a long way towards demonstrating the untenability of the marital-rape exemption in modern times.
▪
This will also go a long way towards preventing your neighbour complaining about the noise you make.
have come a long way
▪
Computer technology has come a long way since the 1970s.
▪
Psychiatry has come a long way since the 1920s.
▪
Simulators have come a long way in recent years and today many of them use screen addressing to update the information.
▪
There are still many gaps, but we have come a long way.
▪
They have come a long way, so they spend the first few hours greeting each other.
▪
We certainly have come a long way.
▪
We have come a long way since then, and one of the greatest stresses in the world today is loneliness.
in the long run
▪
All our hard work will be worth it in the long run .
▪
And in the long run . it will help to ensure continuing good health.
▪
Besides which, in the long run it came down to the word of four people against one.
▪
Besides, in the long run , what good would it do?
▪
But in the long run the outcome of the race between food production and population growth remains too hard to call.
▪
By putting their money as well as their trust into credit, they are in the long run paying more, not less.
▪
He will not in the long run profit from arrangements that turn the surviving research institutes into training grounds for emigrant specialists.
▪
What might I do in the long run ?
▪
Your educated boys went at it a little more privately and gracefully, but sometimes destroyed more people in the long run .
in the long/short/medium term
it's a long story
long live democracy/freedom etc
long live the King/Queen! etc
long since
▪
I've long since stopped caring about him.
▪
Clearly he had long since trained himself to tune out all awareness of boys unless they menaced his engine or coachwork.
▪
He had long since given up reading the tabloids.
▪
Other staff had long since gone home.
▪
That one has long since vanished, as a result of the Falls' implacable backward erosion.
▪
The Democratic Party has long since taken black voters for granted.
▪
The reservoir behind it would have long since silted up.
▪
Women who had long since stopped listening except to their own ossified ramblings.
long-fingered/slim-fingered etc
long-stemmed/short-stemmed etc
long/regular/late etc hours
▪
A junior hospital doctor was telling Virginia Bottomley of the long hours he worked in casualty.
▪
During the decline of hand-loom weaving, more and more families were brought under the necessity of working longer hours .
▪
He had gone to Peterborough and worked long hours in a canning factory only so that he could own this bike.
▪
Instead he spent long hours alone, reading memoranda, and making check marks to indicate the recommendations that he ap-proved.
▪
It meant long hours for the pilots, flight deck crews, repair crews and cooks.
▪
It provides leisure time, one of the prime goals for which most men work long hours and years.
▪
These data are there for the asking, and they can provide a shortcut to long hours of interviews and observations.
▪
We have acted to reduce the long hours worked by junior doctors in hospitals.
long/slow haul
▪
Can we clean out the garage at last and buy for the long haul ?
▪
In the long haul , Rex wanted what we all want, a measure of financial security.
▪
It is necessary to get things into perspective before the long haul to the Southern Hemisphere, though.
▪
Miles per gallon Then, on a long haul , it wouldn't go up hill or overtake on the flat.
▪
Over the long haul , how you see others may be even more important in helping your dreams come true.
▪
That would be a long haul .
▪
The county could subsidize the longer hauls from North County through a discount on tip fees.
▪
Those who do not fancy long haul can share short flights between two or three budding pilots.
long/thick etc -bodied
not (all) that long/many etc
▪
And not that many women really feel comfortable going for the jugular.
▪
He doesn't recognize the name, not that many people seem to know his or that of his publisher.
▪
He would do the job himself if he had the time-and had the job not that many years ago.
▪
I was told the rules, there were not that many and most were sensible.
▪
McPhail, 20, is making a run for the board not that long after having graduated from the system himself.
▪
So there is not that long a wait.
▪
Thankfully there were not that many in cars.
▪
Well, maybe not that many things.
not any more/longer
▪
I didn't want to get back inside, not any more.
▪
Perhaps yes I did love her once but not any more.
▪
She used to wonder where he'd been in the meantime, but not any more.
▪
There is no profit to be made there, Guillamon, not any more.
▪
These procedures are not any more likely to be successful beyond this limit.
▪
Well, maybe not now, not any more, now the results were so clear.
▪
Well, not any more than usual.
▪
Well, not any more, but he did once when I was a kid.
over the long haul
sb is not long for this world
so long!
take the long view (of sth)
▪
Any time we set out to change our lives or the world, we have to take the long view .
▪
But I think you must take the long view .
▪
It was an error to take the long view in the face of moral objections.
▪
One had to take the long view .
▪
The fox of Damascus, ruthlessly in control since 1970, has always taken the long view .
the long jump
to cut a long story short
▪
I was a waitress in a bar and he was one of my customers, and that, to cut a long story short, is how we met.
to cut a long story short
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"Gone With the Wind" is a really long book.
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a long ballgown
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a woman in a long black gown
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Exercise can help people live longer, healthier lives.
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Get me a measuring tape - I'll show you how long I want the skirt.
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He died after a long illness.
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He has a long last name that nobody can pronounce.
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Her hair was long , honey-blonde, and tied back in a ponytail.
▪
How long is the trailer? I don't think it will fit in the garage.
▪
I don't like long hair on guys.
▪
I don't want to make a long speech, but I hope you'll bear with me while I mention a few people who have helped.
▪
I like the book, but the chapters are really long .
▪
It's a long flight - 15 hours.
▪
Look how long Ayesha's hair is getting.
▪
Oh dear, this is going to be a long list of things I was supposed to do but didn't.
▪
Rome has the longest shopping street in Europe.
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She led them down a long corridor, through countless swinging doors.
▪
Some snakes can grow up to 30 feet long .
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The meeting was too long .
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The place has a long Welsh name that I can't pronounce.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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For the long term, today's crisis is obviously a poor guide.
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However, these pauses were considerably longer for the philosophical section of the passage than for the description of the countryside.
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I thought they were cute, naturally, but I never realised that they come from a long tradition.
▪
One was young with a cupid face dotted with two splotches of rouge, and long brown hair.
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They stood for a long time in silence, and the others left them alone.
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Those damn registers were in the stores for three long years, until some one in Accounting decided they could be written off.
II. adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
overdue
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A visit from Mrs Brocklebank was long overdue .
▪
This commonsense legislation was long overdue .
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We are long overdue for a complete overhaul of the mathematics curriculum at all levels.
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Repairs to embassy buildings and the replacement of outdated computer hardware are said to be long overdue .
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A statutory clarification of their status is long overdue .
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It is clear this system is out of control and that comprehensive reforms are long overdue .
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The changes now taking place in your life are long overdue and positive.
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Again, these changes were long overdue and were welcomed by all reasonable people and organizations.
■ VERB
establish
▪
The network has long established plans for such incidents and says these worked well.
▪
Some, like regulation, tax policy, contracting, and grants, were long established .
▪
The present convention is long established and provides a basis on which we can stand.
▪
Word of the Barrio barred owl spread among birders by means of an efficient and long established telephone grapevine.
▪
Homoeopathy can be safe and effective and was established long before most of our present allopathic treatments.
go
▪
We rippled on the yellow sheet, the counterpane - and us - long gone .
▪
I know she likes the blossoms of the apple trees in the twilight, but they are long gone .
▪
In contrast to Healings, the traditional looking Abbey Mill still smacks of days long gone .
▪
The recession that helped propel Clinton to the White House is long gone .
▪
That vision of Toronto is long gone .
▪
Ironically, the huge brick factories are long gone , but the delicate glass remains.
▪
It is a hangover from those long gone days when it was actually used for darning socks!
▪
The pre-theater crowd should be long gone and there is no event at the Staples Center.
last
▪
At long last a hardbound volume of the history of his works has appeared - by the man himself!
▪
The contest did not last long , but nearly 1500 were killed and wounded...
▪
The double-spout type, however, did not last long .
▪
When they did, walkouts never lasted long .
▪
At long last the light of suspicion fell on Malekith, but it was too late.
▪
The ambiguity lasted long after Willie died.
▪
She can easily swallow one in one go, so mealtimes don't last long .
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Any disappointment that he felt did not last long , however.
live
▪
Long live the students! Long live the people!
▪
Still, it amounted to a massive subsidy to Wall Street from Congress. Long live motherhood and home ownership!
▪
Maclean, perhaps fortunately, did not live long enough to witness the collapse of the system he had built up.
▪
My Dad lived long enough to see me finish my training and qualify as a pilot.
▪
They wore camouflage uniform and, from the looks of them, had been living long in the jungle.
▪
Long live love! Long live Edward!
▪
I hope your fish live long enough to recover and that the dyes fade away.
▪
Anyway, the guy wasn't likely to live long , he positively glowed in the dark.
stay
▪
Human biology could rule out long stays aboard a space station.
▪
He wouldn't stay long in Granard.
▪
He had to choose it by himself because Agnes didn't stay long .
▪
No, they hadn't stayed long - a little amused glance at Narouz here.
▪
She flits in and out of people's lives and never stays long enough to allow anyone to get to know her.
▪
Even if he does come and he won't be able to stay long , even though the division is not marked in writing.
▪
It houses long stay elderly patients who will move this year to a new community unit if all goes to plan.
▪
Are you staying long in London?
wait
▪
And she didn't have to wait long .
▪
They were perfectly willing to have a convoy 2 miles long wait while they pedaled across these bridges.
▪
If you listen to a Bush speech these days you will not be waiting long before the governor begins talking about education.
▪
If Jed waited long enough, surely his moment would come.
▪
All you have to do is wait long enough in his front office.
▪
I didn't have to wait long: another soldier passed and was asked to accompany me.
▪
Can you wait long enough for the organism to perform its duties?
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a fast/good/long etc ball
▪
A bit like Dorigo ie he can cross a good ball when necessary.
▪
Anyway he is 24, is a good ball winner and throws himself around a bit.
▪
Jackson will supplant Charlie Ward as the starting point guard, giving the team a better ball distributor.
▪
Leeds do play a lot of football, but they hit a long ball as well.
▪
Phillips seized on a long ball and found himself with only Manninger to beat.
▪
Pow, Janir hit a long ball into the blackberry bushes beside the creek.
▪
Root threw me a fast ball .
a little (of sth) goes a long way
▪
A little ketchup goes a long way.
▪
Clearly, a little imagination goes a long way.
▪
Like a powerful adhesive, a little of it goes a long way.
as long as you like/as much as you like etc
as long as your arm
▪
Instead of hiring child care I traded it with other parents: I had a list as long as my arm .
▪
Mr Linley stuck out a microphone as long as his arm , right up to those ragged jaws.
▪
My record's as long as my arm - even longer.
at (long) last
▪
At last , we were able to afford a house.
▪
And I, at last , had some one to talk to.
▪
And then, at last , I crossed a high mountain pass to discover smoke drifting across my route.
▪
But his work lives on, and after decades of neglect he is rediscovered, celebrated anew and recognized at last .
▪
Lendl's 7-6 6-2 defeat by Omar Camporese follows his opening match loss at last week's Madrid Open.
▪
Now, at last , they are coming home.
▪
Well, at last I got my chance.
be a long shot
▪
It does no harm to write to the nearest local residents and businesses, but generally this is a long shot .
▪
It was a long shot , but he might have been calling from his usual hotel in Lagos.
▪
It was a long shot , of course, but if she looked carefully she might find something.
▪
It was a long shot , very long.
▪
This is a long shot , but I still want to try it.
▪
We are long shots and we are approaching it that way.
▪
Well, actually, he wanted two things, but he knew the second was a long shot .
be a long time/10 years etc in the making
by a long way
▪
And before they went there I thought they would, by a long way .
▪
He plays both but his preference, and by a long way , is for gaelic football.
▪
In the home market, it led the field by a long way , with 4,337,487 units sold.
▪
It is by a long way his preferred title when he refers to himself.
▪
It is, by a long way , the greatest test yet of whether he is up to the job.
▪
Moreover, the pretty paper kites in the clear blue skies still outnumber the documentary versions by a long way .
▪
The expense allowances they received often failed, sometimes by a long way , to cover the costs they had to meet.
for the long haul
go a long way towards doing sth
▪
And Monday's game will go a long way towards determining Wright's future.
▪
For it was he who arranged the finance which went a long way towards putting the station on the air.
▪
Friedman's statement of the natural rate hypothesis went a long way towards reconciling such evidence with basic classical theory.
▪
In doing so it can go a long way towards lifting the depression which has afflicted too many teachers in recent years.
▪
Schema theory can go a long way towards explaining the sender's choice and arrangement of information in communication.
▪
The new, improved materials available have gone a long way towards extending the lifespan of today's flat roof.
▪
This decision goes a long way towards demonstrating the untenability of the marital-rape exemption in modern times.
▪
This will also go a long way towards preventing your neighbour complaining about the noise you make.
have come a long way
▪
Computer technology has come a long way since the 1970s.
▪
Psychiatry has come a long way since the 1920s.
▪
Simulators have come a long way in recent years and today many of them use screen addressing to update the information.
▪
There are still many gaps, but we have come a long way.
▪
They have come a long way, so they spend the first few hours greeting each other.
▪
We certainly have come a long way.
▪
We have come a long way since then, and one of the greatest stresses in the world today is loneliness.
in the long run
▪
All our hard work will be worth it in the long run .
▪
And in the long run . it will help to ensure continuing good health.
▪
Besides which, in the long run it came down to the word of four people against one.
▪
Besides, in the long run , what good would it do?
▪
But in the long run the outcome of the race between food production and population growth remains too hard to call.
▪
By putting their money as well as their trust into credit, they are in the long run paying more, not less.
▪
He will not in the long run profit from arrangements that turn the surviving research institutes into training grounds for emigrant specialists.
▪
What might I do in the long run ?
▪
Your educated boys went at it a little more privately and gracefully, but sometimes destroyed more people in the long run .
in the long/short/medium term
it's a long story
long live democracy/freedom etc
long live the King/Queen! etc
long since
▪
I've long since stopped caring about him.
▪
Clearly he had long since trained himself to tune out all awareness of boys unless they menaced his engine or coachwork.
▪
He had long since given up reading the tabloids.
▪
Other staff had long since gone home.
▪
That one has long since vanished, as a result of the Falls' implacable backward erosion.
▪
The Democratic Party has long since taken black voters for granted.
▪
The reservoir behind it would have long since silted up.
▪
Women who had long since stopped listening except to their own ossified ramblings.
long-fingered/slim-fingered etc
long-stemmed/short-stemmed etc
long/regular/late etc hours
▪
A junior hospital doctor was telling Virginia Bottomley of the long hours he worked in casualty.
▪
During the decline of hand-loom weaving, more and more families were brought under the necessity of working longer hours .
▪
He had gone to Peterborough and worked long hours in a canning factory only so that he could own this bike.
▪
Instead he spent long hours alone, reading memoranda, and making check marks to indicate the recommendations that he ap-proved.
▪
It meant long hours for the pilots, flight deck crews, repair crews and cooks.
▪
It provides leisure time, one of the prime goals for which most men work long hours and years.
▪
These data are there for the asking, and they can provide a shortcut to long hours of interviews and observations.
▪
We have acted to reduce the long hours worked by junior doctors in hospitals.
long/slow haul
▪
Can we clean out the garage at last and buy for the long haul ?
▪
In the long haul , Rex wanted what we all want, a measure of financial security.
▪
It is necessary to get things into perspective before the long haul to the Southern Hemisphere, though.
▪
Miles per gallon Then, on a long haul , it wouldn't go up hill or overtake on the flat.
▪
Over the long haul , how you see others may be even more important in helping your dreams come true.
▪
That would be a long haul .
▪
The county could subsidize the longer hauls from North County through a discount on tip fees.
▪
Those who do not fancy long haul can share short flights between two or three budding pilots.
long/thick etc -bodied
not (all) that long/many etc
▪
And not that many women really feel comfortable going for the jugular.
▪
He doesn't recognize the name, not that many people seem to know his or that of his publisher.
▪
He would do the job himself if he had the time-and had the job not that many years ago.
▪
I was told the rules, there were not that many and most were sensible.
▪
McPhail, 20, is making a run for the board not that long after having graduated from the system himself.
▪
So there is not that long a wait.
▪
Thankfully there were not that many in cars.
▪
Well, maybe not that many things.
not any more/longer
▪
I didn't want to get back inside, not any more.
▪
Perhaps yes I did love her once but not any more.
▪
She used to wonder where he'd been in the meantime, but not any more.
▪
There is no profit to be made there, Guillamon, not any more.
▪
These procedures are not any more likely to be successful beyond this limit.
▪
Well, maybe not now, not any more, now the results were so clear.
▪
Well, not any more than usual.
▪
Well, not any more, but he did once when I was a kid.
over the long haul
sb is not long for this world
so long!
take a (long) hard look at sth/sb
▪
After the inevitable posture of being affronted, I took a hard look at what I was doing.
▪
Blairites could take a harder look at a rhetorical vocabulary in which every single item was anticipated by totalitarianism.
▪
In practice, many doctors are too busy to take a long hard look at every patient.
▪
Instead, they take a hard look at a difficult moral and political dilemma and find no easy answers.
▪
Or you can take a hard look at the feminist agenda.
▪
Some one needs to take a long hard look at what has happened to tennis in Ulster over the last 20 years.
▪
The latter allows both parties a chance to stand back from the daily routine and take a harder look at overall performance.
take the long view (of sth)
▪
Any time we set out to change our lives or the world, we have to take the long view .
▪
But I think you must take the long view .
▪
It was an error to take the long view in the face of moral objections.
▪
One had to take the long view .
▪
The fox of Damascus, ruthlessly in control since 1970, has always taken the long view .
the long jump
to cut a long story short
▪
I was a waitress in a bar and he was one of my customers, and that, to cut a long story short, is how we met.
to cut a long story short
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪
Long after the war, the wreckage of his plane was discovered.
▪
75 percent of the battered women in our survey stayed with their husbands long after most people would have left.
▪
Have you been waiting long ?
▪
Have you been working here for long ?
▪
I'm sorry this is taking so long .
▪
I bet it doesn't take your mom so long to make an apple pie.
▪
I don't visit very often because it takes so long to get over there.
▪
I guess it didn't happen very long ago.
▪
I haven't been waiting long .
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I won't be long .
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It has long been recognized that a high-fat diet can cause heart problems.
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It took me longer to finish than I thought.
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She's convinced that Grandmother is not going to live long .
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She was wearing fake fur long before it became fashionable.
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The journey took longer than I thought it would.
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The phone rang for so long , I hung up in the end.
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They've been together so long , I can't figure out why they don't get married.
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They ran out of things to talk about long before they arrived.
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Why is it taking so long ?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I imagine you've long wanted to share a physical relationship with Radcliffe.
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If food is kept for too long its taste will deteriorate and, more importantly, it may become harmful.
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It seems so long ago that Jody can hardly remember the game, but barely two months have passed.
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Yellow and White were on the ground too long .
III. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
always
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It was something he had always longed to explore.
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I had always longed to get back to Abyssinia.
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The independence she had always longed for would be hers at last.
for
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Pilade was asleep, leaving her arms free for the precious embrace she longed for.
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Perhaps he thought powerful attacks on her might produce the result he longed for .
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What he longed for was an end to the day and to the new, unlivable reality it had brought.
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It offered him, instead of the peace he longed for , the possibility of return.
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And Magnus's dreaded plunge, the final commitment of marriage, she did not fear, but longed for .
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This is the pencil he never had - the pencil he longed for .
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The independence she had always longed for would be hers at last.
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She was a phantom, a shadow of what he had longed for .
live
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This species will not live long in community tanks.
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I shall not live long enough to enjoy all of it.
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She may not live long and I won't ever have known her.
■ NOUN
freedom
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It is a bird spirit that longs for freedom .
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He was typical in that he longed for freedom .
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There was no justice for some one who longed for freedom .
peace
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Ariel began to long for the peace the latter draughts brought to her.
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The people were weary of war and bloodshed and longed for peace .
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We all longed so for peace , and now it has come, nothing seems to go right.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a fast/good/long etc ball
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A bit like Dorigo ie he can cross a good ball when necessary.
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Anyway he is 24, is a good ball winner and throws himself around a bit.
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Jackson will supplant Charlie Ward as the starting point guard, giving the team a better ball distributor.
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Leeds do play a lot of football, but they hit a long ball as well.
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Phillips seized on a long ball and found himself with only Manninger to beat.
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Pow, Janir hit a long ball into the blackberry bushes beside the creek.
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Root threw me a fast ball .
a little (of sth) goes a long way
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A little ketchup goes a long way.
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Clearly, a little imagination goes a long way.
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Like a powerful adhesive, a little of it goes a long way.
as long as your arm
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Instead of hiring child care I traded it with other parents: I had a list as long as my arm .
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Mr Linley stuck out a microphone as long as his arm , right up to those ragged jaws.
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My record's as long as my arm - even longer.
at (long) last
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At last , we were able to afford a house.
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And I, at last , had some one to talk to.
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And then, at last , I crossed a high mountain pass to discover smoke drifting across my route.
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But his work lives on, and after decades of neglect he is rediscovered, celebrated anew and recognized at last .
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Lendl's 7-6 6-2 defeat by Omar Camporese follows his opening match loss at last week's Madrid Open.
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Now, at last , they are coming home.
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Well, at last I got my chance.
be a long shot
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It does no harm to write to the nearest local residents and businesses, but generally this is a long shot .
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It was a long shot , but he might have been calling from his usual hotel in Lagos.
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It was a long shot , of course, but if she looked carefully she might find something.
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It was a long shot , very long.
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This is a long shot , but I still want to try it.
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We are long shots and we are approaching it that way.
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Well, actually, he wanted two things, but he knew the second was a long shot .
be a long time/10 years etc in the making
by a long way
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And before they went there I thought they would, by a long way .
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He plays both but his preference, and by a long way , is for gaelic football.
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In the home market, it led the field by a long way , with 4,337,487 units sold.
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It is by a long way his preferred title when he refers to himself.
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It is, by a long way , the greatest test yet of whether he is up to the job.
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Moreover, the pretty paper kites in the clear blue skies still outnumber the documentary versions by a long way .
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The expense allowances they received often failed, sometimes by a long way , to cover the costs they had to meet.
for the long haul
go a long way towards doing sth
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And Monday's game will go a long way towards determining Wright's future.
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For it was he who arranged the finance which went a long way towards putting the station on the air.
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Friedman's statement of the natural rate hypothesis went a long way towards reconciling such evidence with basic classical theory.
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In doing so it can go a long way towards lifting the depression which has afflicted too many teachers in recent years.
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Schema theory can go a long way towards explaining the sender's choice and arrangement of information in communication.
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The new, improved materials available have gone a long way towards extending the lifespan of today's flat roof.
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This decision goes a long way towards demonstrating the untenability of the marital-rape exemption in modern times.
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This will also go a long way towards preventing your neighbour complaining about the noise you make.
in the long run
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All our hard work will be worth it in the long run .
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And in the long run . it will help to ensure continuing good health.
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Besides which, in the long run it came down to the word of four people against one.
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Besides, in the long run , what good would it do?
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But in the long run the outcome of the race between food production and population growth remains too hard to call.
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By putting their money as well as their trust into credit, they are in the long run paying more, not less.
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He will not in the long run profit from arrangements that turn the surviving research institutes into training grounds for emigrant specialists.
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What might I do in the long run ?
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Your educated boys went at it a little more privately and gracefully, but sometimes destroyed more people in the long run .
in the long/short/medium term
it's a long story
long since
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I've long since stopped caring about him.
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Clearly he had long since trained himself to tune out all awareness of boys unless they menaced his engine or coachwork.
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He had long since given up reading the tabloids.
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Other staff had long since gone home.
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That one has long since vanished, as a result of the Falls' implacable backward erosion.
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The Democratic Party has long since taken black voters for granted.
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The reservoir behind it would have long since silted up.
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Women who had long since stopped listening except to their own ossified ramblings.
long-fingered/slim-fingered etc
long-stemmed/short-stemmed etc
long/regular/late etc hours
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A junior hospital doctor was telling Virginia Bottomley of the long hours he worked in casualty.
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During the decline of hand-loom weaving, more and more families were brought under the necessity of working longer hours .
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He had gone to Peterborough and worked long hours in a canning factory only so that he could own this bike.
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Instead he spent long hours alone, reading memoranda, and making check marks to indicate the recommendations that he ap-proved.
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It meant long hours for the pilots, flight deck crews, repair crews and cooks.
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It provides leisure time, one of the prime goals for which most men work long hours and years.
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These data are there for the asking, and they can provide a shortcut to long hours of interviews and observations.
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We have acted to reduce the long hours worked by junior doctors in hospitals.
long/slow haul
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Can we clean out the garage at last and buy for the long haul ?
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In the long haul , Rex wanted what we all want, a measure of financial security.
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It is necessary to get things into perspective before the long haul to the Southern Hemisphere, though.
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Miles per gallon Then, on a long haul , it wouldn't go up hill or overtake on the flat.
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Over the long haul , how you see others may be even more important in helping your dreams come true.
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That would be a long haul .
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The county could subsidize the longer hauls from North County through a discount on tip fees.
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Those who do not fancy long haul can share short flights between two or three budding pilots.
long/thick etc -bodied
not (all) that long/many etc
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And not that many women really feel comfortable going for the jugular.
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He doesn't recognize the name, not that many people seem to know his or that of his publisher.
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He would do the job himself if he had the time-and had the job not that many years ago.
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I was told the rules, there were not that many and most were sensible.
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McPhail, 20, is making a run for the board not that long after having graduated from the system himself.
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So there is not that long a wait.
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Thankfully there were not that many in cars.
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Well, maybe not that many things.
not any more/longer
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I didn't want to get back inside, not any more.
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Perhaps yes I did love her once but not any more.
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She used to wonder where he'd been in the meantime, but not any more.
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There is no profit to be made there, Guillamon, not any more.
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These procedures are not any more likely to be successful beyond this limit.
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Well, maybe not now, not any more, now the results were so clear.
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Well, not any more than usual.
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Well, not any more, but he did once when I was a kid.
over the long haul
sb is not long for this world
so long!
take a (long) hard look at sth/sb
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After the inevitable posture of being affronted, I took a hard look at what I was doing.
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Blairites could take a harder look at a rhetorical vocabulary in which every single item was anticipated by totalitarianism.
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In practice, many doctors are too busy to take a long hard look at every patient.
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Instead, they take a hard look at a difficult moral and political dilemma and find no easy answers.
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Or you can take a hard look at the feminist agenda.
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Some one needs to take a long hard look at what has happened to tennis in Ulster over the last 20 years.
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The latter allows both parties a chance to stand back from the daily routine and take a harder look at overall performance.
take the long view (of sth)
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Any time we set out to change our lives or the world, we have to take the long view .
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But I think you must take the long view .
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It was an error to take the long view in the face of moral objections.
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One had to take the long view .
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The fox of Damascus, ruthlessly in control since 1970, has always taken the long view .
the long jump
to cut a long story short
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He longed for the good old days when teachers were shown respect.
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He was longing for everyone to leave, so that he could think in peace about what had happened that day.
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More than anything, I long to have someone who loves me for myself.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Artificial light, all the lines lie, it almost makes you long for darkness.
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The combination of a large meal and physical tiredness made the thought of sleep irresistible, and she longed for her bunk.
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They long to find new worlds where freedom is possible.
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Those naive souls who have longed for a simpler and better way have had to consign their visions to pointless daydreams.