"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
(11) considerably, substantially
Kolokacji: 2
(12) infinitely, interminably
Kolokacji: 2
(13) increasingly, progressively
Kolokacji: 2
1. increasingly long = coraz bardziej długi increasingly long
  • He and his colleagues believe that peak summer temperatures have been above freezing "for a progressively longer period of time each year since 1973."
  • Four of them came in in the second half, and each from progressively longer range.
  • Each extension in this conjugated system reduces the energy required for electrons to transition to higher energy states, allowing the molecule to absorb visible light of progressively longer wavelengths.
  • As the design matures, the simulation will require more time and resources to run, and errors will take progressively longer to be found.
  • The ship itself was a series of progressively longer oblongs, just the sort of thing the clouds seemed to like.
  • The only constant has been the trainer, Richard Lundy, who has skillfully conditioned the colt to carry his speed over progressively longer distances.
  • During the last two months, the hospital had allowed him to leave for progressively longer periods, the latest one a 10-day furlough that ended yesterday.
  • All races take place in locales in the U.S. state of California on progressively longer two-lane roads.
  • And that is something so simple to fix, if it was just universally applied that, like, a progressively longer delay was present.
  • Leave them outside for progressively longer periods in sunnier spots each day for at least a week before transplanting into the garden.
(15) agonizingly, excruciatingly
Kolokacji: 2
long + preposición
Kolokacji: 12
long for • long in • long with • long of • long to • ...

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