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  • “Perhaps,” I said to Blanchard, “we ought to have a word with Longman.”

    QUEEN’S RANSOM Fiona Buckley 2000

  • I think the Longman is a fine dictionary, superior to the Webster, but I have been careful not to compare it with the Collins, which remains my favorite British English dictionary for reasons that modesty forbids my detailing here.

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XV No 1 1988

  • Certainly the big guns such as Longman want to sell as many books as possible, and writing themselves out of the market by including a section on “My daily life in Gaza” is not going to be one of their aims.

    T is for Taboo « An A-Z of ELT 2010

  • I serve under), Collard (in the last years of the last century known as Longman and Clementi), Erard (the London branch), Kirkman, and, I believe, Wornum.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883 Various

  • Ye air goin 'to Mis' Longman's till we get back. "

    Tess of the Storm Country Grace Miller White 1912

  • [_And so on with the others, naming the second finger "Longman," the third finger "Ringman," and the fourth finger "Littleman."

    The Nursery Rhyme Book Andrew Lang 1901

  • "You never told me about 'Longman' and 'next winter,' and I am

    Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals Thomas Moore 1815

  • Mr. Sabato is director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, author of "Pendulum Swing" Longman, 2011, and editor of the Crystal Ball newsletter, www.centerforpolitics.org/crystalball.

    Do Endorsements Matter? Larry J. Sabato 2012

  • Pearson, which has extensive education operations with imprints including FT Prentice Hall, Longman and York Notes, also publishes the Financial Times newspaper and Penguin books.

    Pearson Raises Profit Forecast Kathy Gordon 2011

  • With Longman on board, I now counted Mormons, Catholics, Jews, evangelicals, and agnostics among my ecumenical crew.

    Deconstructing Obama Jack Cashill 2011

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