"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. awfully long = strasznie długi awfully long
2. significantly longer = znacznie dłuższy significantly longer
3. terribly long = szalenie długi terribly long
4. uncomfortably long = niewygodnie długi uncomfortably long
5. painfully long = nieznośnie długi painfully long
  • His eyes bored into her for a painfully long moment.
  • She pondered silently for what seemed a painfully long time.
  • The 1970's saw yet another rehearsal of fundamentals in this painfully long analysis.
  • It took him a painfully long time to register these observations, and to consider the significance of each in turn.
  • After what seemed like a painfully long moment, he asked, "And you?"
  • After a painfully long minute, he came up again.
  • He had to keep himself under control or this was going to be one painfully long trip.
  • After a few painfully long seconds, Nick opened his eyes.
  • After the painfully long day before, she'd thought she would have slept like the dead but perhaps the analogy was too apt.
  • It seemed a painfully long moment before the doctor reached out and took the proffered hand.
6. alarmingly long = niepokojąco długi alarmingly long
7. hideously long = odrażająco długi hideously 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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