very long
Example Sentences
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That’s easier than asking people to commit to something very long all at once.
From Slate • Jun. 4, 2026
"But she recognised us, and we had a very tearful cuddle for a very long time."
From BBC • Jun. 3, 2026
“We would get together and have these very long conversations,” says director Rebecca Miller, who interviewed American cinema’s great poet of tortured masculinity over five years.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2026
“This is going to be a very regular thing for a very long period of time.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 25, 2026
Abigail had initially resisted the obvious because, as she put it, “the Heart is long, very long in receiving the convictions that is forced upon it by reason.”
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
