Definitions
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- For a long time.
- At last, finally.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- prep.
- n. At the end or conclusion; after a long period. See Syn. of At last, under Last.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adv. in a lengthy or prolix manner
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Examples
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I also wish to thank Valerie Frankel, Sarah White Bournakel, Maggie Nelson Burchill, Alisa Torres, and John B., who all spoke to me at length about losing a spouse.
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She thinks up projects and explains them at length to Anna the typist, who shrinks like a turtle into her worn-out suit every time Tatiana Vasilievna sails into the room.
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Keiley spoke at length on several aspects he considered pertinent to the investment:
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In the face of stiff odds and heavy fire, Evans, Bee, Bartow, and Hampton had been compelled at length to withdraw to the hill where lived the widow Judith Henry.
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He had been exchanged at length after he fell into Federal hands at Verdiersville, and had been prompt to return to active duty.
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David Tucker, the Richmond authority on pneumonia, at length had arrived.
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However, in the years since Machine, two of us Dan Jones and Jim Womack have addressed these issues at length in subsequent volumes.
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Aristotle, in his "Categories" places quantity (with which he deals at length from the logical standpoint in the sixth chapter) first in his enumeration of the nine accidents.
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A couple of weeks after the first American bombing raids had begun, the al-Qaeda leader met with Taysir Allouni of Al Jazeera, who interviewed the Saudi exile at length on October 21.
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Dick Garnett's men, when they at length gave ground, went far around to the north side of the town.
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