"long" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

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verbo + long
Kolokacji: 314
take long • stay long • last long • wait long • live longer • grow longer • survive long • long sought • linger long • long argued • ...
long + adjetivo
Kolokacji: 102
long overdue • longer necessary • long dead • longer interested • longer able • longer available • longer possible • longer active • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 30
(3) dead, true, cold, accurate
Kolokacji: 4
(8) valid, tenable
Kolokacji: 2
(10) present, absent
Kolokacji: 2
(11) safe, afraid, angry, dangerous
Kolokacji: 4
(12) willing, aware, conscious
Kolokacji: 3
(13) relevant, applicable
Kolokacji: 2
(14) young, current, disused
Kolokacji: 3
1. longer acceptable = dłuższy dopuszczalny longer acceptable
2. longer appropriate = dłuższy odpowiedni longer appropriate
3. longer sustainable = dłuższy zrównoważony longer sustainable
  • Such madness is no longer sustainable.
  • The losses of £25,000 per year were no longer sustainable, and the minister promised that the money saved would be used to improve the regions roads.
  • Nationwide's already critical cash-flow meant operations were no longer sustainable without external, third party finance.
  • The French government has ruled that the brown bear population in the Pyrenees is no longer sustainable.
  • But by now that question is largely academic: the European vision of multiculturalism, in all its simultaneous good will and self-congratulation, is no longer sustainable.
  • By 1973 this was no longer sustainable.
  • Paul stated, "The years of training have taken a toll on my body and training at an Olympic level is no longer sustainable."
  • The situation is no longer sustainable.
  • The one we have at present is unworkable, unfair, lacking in transparency and is no longer sustainable.
  • Conde Nast closed the magazine last week, announcing that its circulation of less than 550,000 was no longer sustainable.
(18) effective, operative, good
Kolokacji: 3
(19) silent, quiet, low
Kolokacji: 3
(20) dark, white, black
Kolokacji: 3
(21) content, hungry, empty
Kolokacji: 3
(22) recognizable, evident
Kolokacji: 2
(23) popular, fashionable
Kolokacji: 2
(24) wide, thin
Kolokacji: 2
(25) responsible, secret
Kolokacji: 2
(26) familiar, common
Kolokacji: 2
(27) pink, red, gray
Kolokacji: 3
(29) compatible, distinguishable
Kolokacji: 2
(30) permissible, taboo
Kolokacji: 2
preposición + long
Kolokacji: 5
for long • on long • of long • before long • about long

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