"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
1. slightly longer = nieco dłuższy slightly longer
2. fairly long = dość długi fairly long
5. overly long = zbyt długi overly long
6. pretty long = całkiem długi pretty long
7. inordinately long = nadmiernie długi inordinately long
  • They reached the cabin after what seemed an inordinately long period of time.
  • It took an inordinately long time to get answers to questions, particularly about accounting.
  • It seemed an inordinately long time before she began.
  • In the current era, even allowing for the present difficulties, one can live an inordinately long life.
  • He kept quiet for what seemed an inordinately long moment.
  • One last word of information, which it may be necessary to add, and I shall close this inordinately long letter.
  • The three aliens sang together for an inordinately long time.
  • He stood at the urinal for an inordinately long time.
  • Every device may have to wait an inordinately long time before getting a chance to transmit.
  • When he set the receiver back down a smile was showing on his face for the first time in what seemed an inordinately long while.
9. moderately long = w miarę długi moderately long
10. unconscionably long = niesumiennie długi unconscionably long
11. unreasonably long = nadmiernie długi unreasonably long
(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
(15) agonizingly, excruciatingly
Kolokacji: 2
long + preposición
Kolokacji: 12
long for • long in • long with • long of • long to • ...

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