- a long boring speech.
- a long distance.
- a long friendship.
- a long game.
- a long life.
- a long position in gold.
- a long road.
- a long time.
- a promotion long overdue.
- a race of long gaunt men.
- a retentive mind.
- an hour long.
- arrived long before he was expected.
- contained many long words.
- his name has long been forgotten.
- how long will you be gone?.
- in long supply.
- is long on coffee.
- it is long after your bedtime.
- large goals that required farsighted policies.
- long ago.
- long odds.
- long on brains.
- looked out the long French windows.
- something long hoped for.
- talked all night long.
- ten miles long.
- tenacious memory.
- the English vowel sounds in `bate', `beat', `bite', `boat', `boot' are long.
- took a long view of the geopolitical issues.