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long spell

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meanings of longand spell


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long
adjective
uk /lɒŋ/ us /lɑːŋ/
continuing for a large amount ...
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spell
noun[C]
uk /spel/ us /spel/
a period of time for which an activity or condition ...
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Examples of long spell


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There is quite a longspell when people will simply not be there.
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The transport situation was, of course, affected by the longspell of severe weather.
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We had a long, longspell of questioning the other side.
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Owing to the longspell of frost only about 22 acres of the 65 to 70 acres to be cultivated have been ploughed.
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That situation may arise from the heavy cost of a longspell in a foreign hospital, or from the equally heavy cost of transport home.
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He will already have done a very longspell in prison.
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She was beginning to need fuel and her crew required relief after the unusually longspell she had had there compared with previous experience.
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Their best hope for the future will be to take advantage of their next longspell in opposition.
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If one goes committing a burglary one night, and then commits another the next night, and so on, one will have a fairly longspell.
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If beds were available for those patients it would save them a longspell in sanatoria.
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For many elderly people, this is a property-disowning democracy for those who require a longspell of care.
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The prospect of a longspell in prison is likely to be a highly effective deterrent.
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How can we find suitable employment for people over 56 who have had a longspell of unemployment?
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This is inevitable after the longspell of unemployment through which thousands of our fellow citizens have recently been passing.
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We have had a longspell on this matter.
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There was a record crop, which, unfortunately, coincided with a longspell of wet weather during harvest time and immediately after.
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The worst that can befall them is a longspell in prison, where they will be free to continue their work of destruction.
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We wish you every possible good fortune and a longspell of office in the high position to which you have been called.
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The soldier requires a longspell to get over the feeling.
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The country is tired of this longspell of depression.
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