It all took a long time.

We talked for a long time.

He reads deep books with long words in them.

His curiosity has been gone for a long time.

Jim took a long pull on his way back to the house.

They came in through the back gate out of the woods, Eddy carrying the long crosscut saw.

“I’m stiff,” she complained, “I’ve been lying on that sofa for as long as I can remember.”

Twenty miles from the city a pair of enormous eggs, identical in contour and separated only by a courtesy bay, jut out into the most domesticated body of salt water in the Western hemisphere, the great wet barnyard of Long Island Sound.