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• We expressed our readiness, and in ten minutes were in the station wagon, rolling rapidly down the long drive, for it was then after nine. We passed on the way the van of the guests from Asquith.
• The face which emerged was not reassuring. […]. He was not a mongol but there was a deficiency of a sort there, and it was not made more pretty by a latter-day hair cut which involved eccentrically long elf-locks and oiled black curls.
• The pyramids of Egypt have been around for a long time.
• [Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.
• What I suffered with that rein for four long months in my lady's carriage, it would be hard to describe, but I am quite sure that, had it lasted much longer, either my health or my temper would have given way.
• I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town. I was completely mystified at such an unusual proceeding.
• The colonel and his sponsor made a queer contrast: Greystone [the sponsor] long and stringy, with a face that seemed as if a cold wind was eternally playing on it.
• I'm long in DuPont;  I have a long position in DuPont.
• No! That forehand is long.
• That we may us reserve both fresh and strong / Against the tournament, which is not long.
• He threw the ball long.
• How long is it until the next bus arrives?
• Plant breeding is always a numbers game.[...]The wild species we use are rich in genetic variation, […]. In addition, we are looking for rare alleles, so the more plants we try, the better. These rarities may be new mutations, or they can be existing ones that are neutral—or are even selected against—in a wild population. A good example is mutations that disrupt seed dispersal, leaving the seeds on the heads long after they are ripe.
• Will this interview take long?
• Paris has long been considered one of the most cultured cities in the world.
• I stay too long: but here my father comes.
• The world was awake to the 2nd of May, but Mayfair is not the world, and even the menials of Mayfair lie long abed.
• I answer by saying that I have worked too long and hard now against segregated public accommodations to end up segregating my moral concern.
• A long is typically 64 bits in a 32-bit environment.
• Every uptick made the longs cheer.
• The left panel shows the profile of a portfolio consisting of longing a call and shorting a put.
• She longed for him to come back.
• The Rabbit sighed. He thought it would be a long time before this magic called Real happened to him. He longed to become Real, to know what it felt like; and yet the idea of growing shabby and losing his eyes and whiskers was rather sad.
• I am of opinion that in regard of these debauches and lewd actions, fathers may, in some sort, be blamed, and that it is only long of them.
• Tis well, and hold your owne in any case / With such austeritie as longeth to a father.
• A goodly Armour, and full rich aray, / Which long'd to Angela, the Saxon Queene, / All fretted round with gold, and goodly wel beseene.
• A long road.
• Catherine, last spring at this time, I was longing to have you under this roof.
• This song is very long.
• It's a long way from the Earth to the Moon.
• It takes long time to clear this.