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Example sentences for "pretty long"

  • Afterwards I had a pretty long time, after which J.

  • A pretty long time of silence then ensued, and great was the solemnity which appeared to cover the assembly.

  • Afterwards I had a pretty long time, principally to their son John, who I believe was under a precious visitation from on high.

  • This latter, having doffed his helmet, exhibited a bald head, encircled by a border of black, curling hair, pretty long at the back of the head.

  • These birds have thick and strong yet sharp bills, pretty long claws, and short tails.

  • The cashew is a fruit as big as a pippin, pretty long, and bigger near the stem than at the other end, growing tapering.

  • There was only a small old table, a few old chairs, and 2 or 3 pretty long forms to sit on.

  • I suppose this can be managed somehow,' said the butcher, after a pretty long silence.

  • Ever willing to sacrifice his own feelings to the wishes of his friend, Mr. Pickwick at once took a pretty long taste.

  • They dragged the fragments of the upset sleigh a pretty long distance, and arrived at the door of their stable with only some diminutive parts of the harness.

  • But I had to crawl on hands and knees a pretty long distance, in a ditch filled with mud, not to be seen, and escape death.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    department head; elected mayor; first dynasty; lottery tickets; never does; par excellence; physical geography; pretty certain; pretty considerable; pretty fellow; pretty good; pretty hard; pretty house; pretty lady; pretty large; pretty maid; pretty much the same; pretty nearly; pretty nigh; pretty thick; pretty thing; pretty while; pretty woman; then poured; till now; vide supra