adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
friend
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Whatever transpired between the two long-time friends must be really serious.
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Roy Barraclough, a long-time friend and colleague, joked with Mr Dawson less than 24 hours before his death.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Encourage long-time employees to take early-retirement.
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My husband and I are biologists and long-time farmers in your area.
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The general tendency among long-time employees, said the study, is not to think of leaving.
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Trading in works of art needs a deep purse and long-time backing.
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Windsor played the long-time head of a boys' secondary school swallowed up by a grammar school to form a comprehensive.