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Meaning: [long in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/long/). - Cela fait trop **longtemps**. It's been too **long**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#3518541](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3518541) [\#11610677](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11610677)) - Il demeura **longtemps** ainsi. He remained a **long** time thus. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 22266) - Et ils demeurèrent assez **longtemps** avec les disciples. They stayed there with the disciples for a **long** time. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ACT 14:28) - La directive a mis **longtemps** à arriver jusqu'ici. The directive has been a **long** time coming. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1595172) - La prescription prévue au paragraphe 1 est suspendue aussi **longtemps**: The limitation period provided for in paragraph 1 shall be suspended for so **long** as: ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 2974630) ## time Used about 1 561 times in the texts (literary ≈ 3 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 448 · legal and administrative ≈ 85 · UN documents ≈ 1 023). Meaning: [time in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/time/). - Depuis **longtemps** il se plaignait de sa santé, de lourdeurs, de vertiges, de malaises constants et inexplicables. He had for some **time** been complaining of his health, of heaviness, giddiness, frequent and unaccountable discomfort. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · maupassant pierre jean, row 723) - Telle est la parole que l’Éternel a prononcée dès **longtemps** sur Moab. This is the word that the LORD spoke concerning Moab in **time** past. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ISA 16:13) - On ne peut pas épiloguer plus **longtemps** sur cette question. We really cannot spend any more **time** on this matter. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 262471) - La fréquence peut être évaluée en mesurant le temps aussi **longtemps** que les cycles d’oscillation sont observables. The frequency can be estimated by measuring the **time** for as many cycles of oscillation as can be observed. ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 5405717) - Obtenir un permis coûte cher, il faut s ' y prendre **longtemps** à l ' avance et les demandes sont fréquemment rejetées. 12. The application process for permits is **time**-consuming and expensive, and applications are frequently rejected. ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 18160820) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Ils vivent ensemble depuis **longtemps**. They have lived together for a while. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by LdjuherTaqvaylit and tieguy · checked, community translation · [\#13815680](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13815680) [\#13253858](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13253858)) - Elle alla, et elle fit selon la parole d’Élie. Et pendant **longtemps** elle eut de quoi manger, elle et sa famille, aussi bien qu’Élie. She went and did according to the saying of Elijah; and she, he, and her household ate many days. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1KI 17:15) - Cependant, le peuple attendait Zacharie, s’étonnant de ce qu’il restait si **longtemps** dans le temple. The people were waiting for Zacharias, and they marveled that he delayed in the temple. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 1:21) ## Grammar Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: [French grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/fr/) · [English grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/en/) · [translating between English and French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/pairs/en-fr/) · [translating from French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/from-fr/) · [translating into English](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/into-en/). ## About these examples Translations are found by how often the two words stand in the same sentence pairs, and the highlighted words are matched automatically: both are approximate. Counts are estimated from a sample of each source. Every example names its source and licence. 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