Long

I need a long piece of wood.

It’s a long way from the Earth to the Moon.

How long was your newborn baby?

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.

This table is long but not very high.

Smith hoofs a long ball up to Jones.

My ex was very strong but not very long.

The plane touched down long and overran the end of the runway.

Juneau was making good time with the other surviving U.S. Navy ships, despite her damage, when the I-26 spotted her and sent a salvo of Type 95 torpedoes in her direction. Passing between the Helena and San Francisco, some indication being they had actually been shot at the San Francisco and gone long because San Francisco was travelling significantly slower than expected, they nonetheless hit Juneau and detonated the ship’s magazine.

That forehand was long. It landed two feet beyond the baseline.

The pass was long and was gathered by the opposing goalkeeper.

His speech was long and dull.

The pyramids of Egypt have been around for a long time.

I took a long look at the house, knowing it was for the last time.

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.

It took us three long weeks to clear the stones from the field.

It'll be a long journey home for the travelling supporters after that 5-0 defeat.

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.

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.

Bless ’em all, bless ’em all, the long, the short and the tall.

I’m long in DuPont.

I have a long position in DuPont.

But Campbell thus did ſhut vp all in ieſt, / Braue Knights and Ladies, certes ye doe wrong / To ſtirre vp ſtrife, when moſt vs needeth reſt, / That we may vs reſerue both freſh and ſtrong, / Againſt the Turneiment which is not long.

I’m talkin’ ’bout… I’m talkin’ ’bout that long money.

Me and broke niggas, we don’t get along (Nah). Hair long (Long), money long (Yeah).

Never lie, money longer than Pinnochio.

Rent-a-cars we road run, money longer than train smoke.

Money so long, it’s offensive.

Don't get it twisted, I love my fans. Everything about them keeps me strong. They're the reason why my money be long. Trust me bro, my money be long.

I got some rope in the trunk, tape and one shovel Long money, talkin’ billions, nigga, and I want several

"Cadet, Cadet!" Not every day, fam. Can't you see why it's long? I just wanna get my creps and be gone.

BOY: B, this is long for man, you know. B: Keep complaining. BOY: Fucking gemming it with these things (he continues collecting empty drinks cans).

INCHEZ: Man this is long! We’ve been in here for time!

[Verse 1: Sleeks]: Keep thinking about Ps that I need but it’s long. All these things that I've done in the streets got me on my knees trying to reason with God. B-B beefin’ is long but I might still greeze up a Don.

MOBEEN: I do love nature when it’s on television and David Attenborough’s presenting. I hate nature in real life! Smells like shite around here! Plants and (he waves a fly away) …plants and that. It’s so long!

DUSHANE: I’m stepping back from the roads now. All of that shit is long! And by next year, I want to be completely legit, then it’s just me, you and Tish.

Nah fuck that I don't like mixing my circles like that. Plus if some shit goes bad I gotta be in the middle it's all long

JAMIE: Yo, if I see you man round here again, it is long for you!

In French most vowels are half-long, and are only occasionally lengthened or shortened into full longs and shorts.

A long is typically 64 bits in a 32-bit environment.

Every uptick made the longs cheer.

Likewise, if borrowers prefer to sell short-maturity issues at the time lenders prefer to invest in longs, as is the case when interest rates are expected to fall, longer maturity issues will tend to yield less than shorter maturity issues.

"U.S. Treasury Market Structure", https://www.mfaalts.org/issue/u-s-treasury-market-structure/ Hedge funds are constrained in how much leverage they can utilize, in part because the futures contracts they are shorting against their Treasury longs have significant initial margin requirements.

“[…] Did I not forbid all these nicknames and all this Oxfordish, by proclamation, last Long.” “Last Long?” “Hem! last protracted vacation.”

The left panel shows the profile of a portfolio consisting of longing a call and shorting a put.

Every golfer wants to hit the ball long and straight.

She hit her return long and lost the point.

How long is it until the next bus arrives?

She has known us as long as you.

I’ve waited long enough.

He slept all day long.

The meeting has already gone on much too long.

I ſtay too long ; but here my Father comes : / A double bleſſing is a double grace; / Occaſion ſmiles vpon a ſecond leaue.

I answer by saying that I have worked too long and hard now against segregated public accommodations to end up segregating my moral concern.

Paris has long been considered one of the most cultured cities in the world.

By eight o’clock, the food will be long gone.

I seldom stay long after class, but yesterday I spent the evening and long into the night.

The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.

The world was awake to the 2nd of May, but Mayfair is not the world, and even the menials of Mayfair lie long abed.

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.

[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.

It’s an earth song,— And I’ve been waiting long for an earth song. It’s a spring song,— And I’ve been waiting long for a spring song.[…] I have been waiting long for this spring song.

Will this interview take long?

I haven’t got long to live.

They are in a hurry; they can’t wait for too long.

My liefe (ſayd ſhe) ye know, that long ygo, / Whileſt ye in durance dwelt, ye to me gaue / A little mayde, the which ye chylded tho ; / The ſame againe if now ye liſt to haue, / The ſame is yonder Lady, whom high God did ſaue.

[Verse 1]:[…]Be there in five, man’s taking long. Are you still there? No fam, I’m already gone.

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 regarde of theſe debauches and lewde actions, fathers may, in ſome ſort, be blamed, and that it is onely long of them.

A goodly Armour, and full rich aray, / Which long’d to Angela, the Saxon Queene, / All fretted round with gold, and goodly wel beseene.

Tis well, and hold your owne in any case / With such austeritie as longeth to a father.

Now ſend Ambaſſage to thy neighbor Kinges, And let them know the Perſian King is chang’d: From one that knew not what a King ſhould doe, To one that can commaund what longs there to: […]

Then there’s Billy Long, a former auctioneer and Republican congressman who Trump nominated and was confirmed less than two months ago to head the Internal Revenue Service, with “little background in tax policy beyond promoting a fraud-riddled tax credit”. Long has already been fired after clashing with the treasury secretary, Scott Bessent. Long was the sixth person to head the IRS this year.

“Long” is an ancient name for the area around what is now Long County in Shaanxi Province. The land south of Long is the Sichuan Basin.

Each animal is cast with a hollow, open body that fits over the yoke of a cart (cat. nos. 31, 3c, 37), as do similarly designed animal figures excavated from a Qin tomb at Bianjiazhuang, Long county, southwestern Shaanxi Province.

In May, plaques in Arabic on the lintels above doors of some Hui residents in Shangcha village in Long county under the jurisdiction of Baoji city in the northwestern province of Shaanxi, were replaced with phrases in Chinese, like “Harmony in the family leads to prosperity in all undertakings” and “Diligence and harmony make the family prosper.”