NOUN
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a prolonged period of time
I haven't been there for years and years
we've known each other for ages
How To Use long time In A Sentence
- For a very long time I loved the idea of writing but did very little - I published a few stories, and workshopped myself into submission.
- Not for a very long time has the discovery of new music so profoundly moved and excited me as the contents of this disc.
- After such a long time in storage, all the oil will have drained to the sump.
- This book will continue to generate excitement for a long time.
- Without these sagacities, the brickwork of the tambour, in addition to taking a very long time so that the concrete could dry up and solidify, would surely have been too heavy to support the dome.
- For a long time I daren't tell him I knew, and when I did he went wild.
- A broken heart takes a long time to heal.
- We had the tradition of preserving food and drink for long time consumption, by watching when the leaves began to fall and when there were changes happening to Nature.
- For a long time, corporate executives felt that the Internet was only an academic toy for bored graduate students.
- However, at the other end of the scale the worst site was at Ballybeg which had been a problem for a long time.