"long" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Rimsky-Korsakov wrote, "They were very defective, teeming with clumsy, disconnected harmonies, shocking part-writing, amazingly illogical modulations or intolerably long stretches without ever a modulation, and bad scoring.
- In this sprightly text, the Prince, "completely smitten" with Cinderella, does not take the usual, intolerably long time to track her down again the morning after the ball.
- The intolerably long lines of the deck planks belonged to a prison corridor.
- It took an intolerably long time to fish the keys out of my pocket When I succeeded I instantly dropped them.
- After an intolerably long pause, a torch flickered aloft.
- The eight-month lag seems intolerably long for devices that can mean life or death.
- The reading seemed to Rodney to take an intolerably long time.
- I have kept you waiting an intolerably long time, I know, but the truth is, I am loath to bring this matter up.
- Many migrant workers and temporary workers face intolerably long hours and disgraceful pay at the hands of unscrupulous employers and these are the very people who require the most protection.
- He adds that his speeches were intolerably long and dull, and that "his rising always operated like a dinner bell" (Memoirs, iii.
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