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词汇 example_english_long-sentence
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long sentence

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meanings of longand sentence


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long
adjective
uk /lɒŋ/ us /lɑːŋ/
continuing for a large amount ...
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sentence
noun[C]
uk /ˈsen.təns/ us /ˈsen.təns/
a group of words, usually containing a verb, that expresses a thought in the form of a statement, question, instruction, or exclamation and starts with a capital letter ...
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Examples of long sentence


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First, a matching part generalized from a longsentence was often too restricted to match other sentences because too many attributes were reserved as restrictions.
In contrast, the second opportunity with a longsentence would provide four to eight additional morphemes.
The longsentence mingles the two worlds only to underline their contrast.
If you can say something in four short sentences, do not say it in one longsentence.
That was like putting a full stop to a longsentence.
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He and his wife are to be congratulated on that longsentence of achievement.
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There is no necessity for bringing in a tremendously longsentence with only two commas.
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People who work with offenders agree that a very longsentence is no more effective in preventing recidivism than is a shorter sentence.
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How can you say now that a longsentence, in the absence of corporal punishment, will not prove to be a good thing?
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I am proposing to provide a special block within a secure prison for the accommodation of long sentence prisoners, including prisoners who may be violent.
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But we agree that, within that very longsentence, the word should be "after"and not"before".
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I could see only that that was a case for a longsentence and for flogging.
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A man who is in for life has nothing to lose; a man who is serving a longsentence has very little to lose.
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By anyone's standard that is not a longsentence.
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One was that the death sentence was the greatest deterrent and the other was that it was kinder than the longsentence.
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This deals with the persistent offender, the man who is going to have a specially longsentence for which he has qualified in certain ways.
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Are we to add to the punishment of that crime the threat of a divorce if the crime is punished by a longsentence?
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To punish them with a longsentence and then to let them out to repeat their offence is surely quite irresponsible.
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