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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a long blank" is correct and can be used in written English
This phrase could be used to refer to a period of time when no particular activity is recalled or observed. For example, "I can't remember anything from the long blank before I started college."
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Conversations among the children themselves cease whenever I am within earshot and, after a long, blank stare, resume when I move on, sometimes accompanied by the kind of mirthless giggles that, back in 5L, made me wonder if I had tucked my skirt into my knickers and wish I had platform shoes instead of Startrite sandals.
Because you can "fill in" your story, you don't have to worry about looking at a long blank screen and can place your ideas into proper perspective.
When there is a long healthy period among one's medical history, the timeline will contain a long blank space, which can cause confusion and unnecessary scrolling.
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During the second visit, Elizabeth Barrett Browning completed her most ambitious work, Aurora Leigh (1857), a long blank-verse poem telling the complicated and melodramatic love story of a young girl and a misguided philanthropist.
There's a strange moment in that scene, in which the journalist discusses the neighborhood where the events take place, his own former neighborhood: just as he discusses unrest that made the neighborhood dangerous at the time of the revolution, Kiarostami's camera shows a long, tall, blank, pale gray wall that nearly fills the screen.
That Mr. Fiennes, who cut his actor's teeth on the classical stage and won a Tony for his "Hamlet" six years ago, is thoroughly at home with long blank verse soliloquies is beyond doubt.
My new friend drove me there, and we parked and walked along the building's long, blank eastern side.
Frick's long, low French-style house, designed by Hastings, is straightforward in most respects, but made peculiar by the long blank limestone finger stretching out on 71st Street.
There's no more swimming or long bike rides around the neighborhood, instead there are long, blank stares out the window and repetitive questions.
In BRIG, filtering often results in short (~30 base pairs long) blank regions spanning all query sequences, which may be misinterpreted as unique regions in the reference genome.
This sad, claustrophobic urban scene by Edward Hopper, with its flat, rearing tenement blocks, its long, blank-faced, featureless wall (which occupies about 30 per cent of the painting), and its eerily dark and beckoning tunnel entrance, looks like a problem without an answer.
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