"long" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

long adjetivo

long + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 1015
long time • long way • long period • long history • long run • long term • long line • long hair • long list • long distance • long hour • ...
verbo + long
Kolokacji: 7
take long • wait long • last longer • live long • grow long • ...
adverbio + long
Kolokacji: 65
unusually long • relatively long • extremely long • slightly longer • fairly long • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 15
(3) extremely, exceedingly
Kolokacji: 2
(7) exceptionally, prodigiously
Kolokacji: 2
(8) incredibly, improbably
Kolokacji: 2
(9) impossibly, unimaginably
Kolokacji: 2
1. surprisingly long = zadziwiająco długi surprisingly long
2. astonishingly long = zadziwiająco długi astonishingly long
3. amazingly long = zdumiewająco długi amazingly long
  • Small sounds carry an amazingly long distance in the wild.
  • Some groups have waged amazingly long battles over the construction of highways.
  • These cases showed that kuru had an amazingly long incubation period.
  • I recall a report on a chimpanzee who was centrifuged at high g for an amazingly long time.
  • Orioles are very famous for building amazingly long bags that hang far below the branch.
  • Flickers use this amazingly long tongue to feed on ants.
  • She swung amazingly long legs over the side of the bed.
  • After an amazingly long time traveling in Ecuador, our visas were finally running out which meant it was high time to get moving.
  • He found himself staring into a pair of large gray eyes topped by amazingly long lashes.
  • This crater often gets filled with lakes of lava which remain molten for amazingly long periods.
(11) considerably, substantially
Kolokacji: 2
(12) infinitely, interminably
Kolokacji: 2
(13) increasingly, progressively
Kolokacji: 2
(15) agonizingly, excruciatingly
Kolokacji: 2
long + preposición
Kolokacji: 12
long for • long in • long with • long of • long to • ...

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