Long in a sentence as a verb

There are without question pros and cons to the SOA approach, and some of the cons are pretty long.

I've been mystified how Uber's kept up their "Underdog" mantle for as long as they have.

Her sister saw the picture and long story short that was the last time she talked to her parents.

The reality is that the odds of me living long enough to see my children grow are quite slim.

Amazon's dev staff made a lot of discoveries along the way.

Doing that is simply robbing your long-term platform value for short-term successes.

When I was diagnosed, I had only one thing that I wanted; to live long enough to see my children grow up.

It was a pretty long journey for a weekend - it would sometimes take 10 hours one way since you had to go through New York.

The American citizenry tends to be OK with this kind of thing as long as it happens far away from us.

Long in a sentence as an adjective

Here is a lesson I've learned the long, hard way after 30 years of being a strong introvert: it's not how or where you meet people that counts.

Farm programs from the depression era thrive today as ever, though the logic for their existence has long since vanished.

It now 404's so I've posted it here:Stevey's Google Platforms RantI was at Amazon for about six and a half years, and now I've been at Google for that long.

I like to be reassured that a company will, in the long term, fail when its products are cynically designed to manipulate.

The faster you get things done, and the more thorough and error-free they are, the more ideas you can execute on, which means you will learn faster in the future too. Over the long term, programming skill is like compound interest.

I searched a bit and it appears as if 1024 is also inspired by Threes, so my game is probably the last of a long chain of clones :PThe code is also open-source.

You also start to get a long view on things, where all these new things coming out don't really seem to offer any advantage to you that keeps development fun.

As the main developer of VLC, we know about this story since a long time, and this is just Dell putting **** components on their machine and blaming others.

I'm one who pretty much defaults to giving women a pass because of all the stupid **** they've dealt with over a long history of men being complete assholes.

Long in a sentence as an adverb

I talk about this in every single presentation Ive ever given about sharding[0]: do no wait too long to add capacity.

We do mean well, and for the most part when people say we're arrogant it's because we didn't hire them, or they're unhappy with our policies, or something along those lines.

Despite having insurance, there continue to be ongoing costs and once I go on long-term disability I'll be paying cobra rates to keep the same coverage.

This was someone who voluntarily put in long hours and went out of his way to teach others, and did everything he could to help other departments like operations and other teams.

It was just one of many pages up for AfD that week, alongside the founder of a political party nobody has ever heard of and 3 members of non-professional football clubs.

Something I thought slightly peculiar given that he was supposed to be investing his own, significant funds along with B. Plus, I don't believe that he actually did any measurable work during the time period that would justify it based on what I knew at the time.

They prioritize launching early over everything else, including retention and engineering discipline and a bunch of other stuff that turns out to matter in the long run.

Long definitions

verb

desire strongly or persistently

See also: hanker yearn

adjective

primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified; "a long life"; "a long boring speech"; "a long time"; "a long friendship"; "a long game"; "long ago"; "an hour long"

adjective

primarily spatial sense; of relatively great or greater than average spatial extension or extension as specified; "a long road"; "a long distance"; "contained many long words"; "ten miles long"

adjective

of relatively great height; "a race of long gaunt men"- Sherwood Anderson; "looked out the long French windows"

adjective

good at remembering; "a retentive mind"; "tenacious memory"

See also: retentive recollective tenacious

adjective

holding securities or commodities in expectation of a rise in prices; "is long on coffee"; "a long position in gold"

adjective

(of speech sounds or syllables) of relatively long duration; "the English vowel sounds in `bate', `beat', `bite', `boat', `boot' are long"

adjective

involving substantial risk; "long odds"

adjective

planning prudently for the future; "large goals that required farsighted policies"; "took a long view of the geopolitical issues"

See also: farseeing farsighted foresighted foresightful prospicient longsighted

adjective

having or being more than normal or necessary:"long on brains"; "in long supply"

adverb

for an extended time or at a distant time; "a promotion long overdue"; "something long hoped for"; "his name has long been forgotten"; "talked all night long"; "how long will you be gone?"; "arrived long before he was expected"; "it is long after your bedtime"

adverb

for an extended distance