"lengthy" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

lengthy adjetivo

lengthy + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 199
lengthy process • lengthy period • lengthy career • lengthy discussion • lengthy battle • lengthy interview • lengthy list • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 37
(12) article, feature, editorial
Kolokacji: 3
(15) trial, run, chase
Kolokacji: 3
(18) stay, visit, sojourn, vacation
Kolokacji: 4
(24) trip, ordeal, experience
Kolokacji: 3
(25) silence, slump
Kolokacji: 2
(27) absence, interval, separation
Kolokacji: 3
1. lengthy journey = przydługa podróż lengthy journey
2. lengthy digression = rozwlekła dygresja lengthy digression
  • Equally off-putting, if no less well-intentioned, are Mr. Simmons's lengthy digressions on vegetarianism and yoga.
  • I knew this was going to be a lengthy digression.
  • Despite its short length, the work includes fairly lengthy digressions, intended to have exemplary value.
  • The second letter continued the discussion of ethnography and related the history of Spanish involvement, including a lengthy digression on the Nootka Crisis.
  • The way these threads resurface to create a larger tapestry makes it much easier to enjoy the book's lengthy digressions.
  • It was addressed to the Parlement of Dijon, and was written largely from a legalistic point of view, though with lengthy digressions, for example on astrology.
  • Naturally, there were lengthy digressions about the books Beryl had written and the sources of her ideas.
  • Such glimpses of Custer are decidedly intermittent in Ms. Barnett's book, which is padded with lengthy and often completely gratuitious digressions that take an almost stream-of-consciousness form.
  • As the themes of the courtly epic had in the meantime become common knowledge for his German listeners, he was able to avoid lengthy explanatory digressions.
  • He introduces a lengthy digression on "a character without a name" whose fetish is retarded women.
3. lengthy voyage = przydługa podróż morska lengthy voyage
4. lengthy expedition = przydługa wyprawa lengthy expedition
(30) affair, ceremony
Kolokacji: 2
(33) questionnaire, preamble
Kolokacji: 2
(36) contract, apology
Kolokacji: 2
adverbio + lengthy
Kolokacji: 6
fairly lengthy • somewhat lengthy • relatively lengthy • unusually lengthy • potentially lengthy • ...

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