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The phrase "a long time looking" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to the duration spent searching for something or someone.
Example: "After a long time looking for my keys, I finally found them under the couch."
Alternatives: "a long time searching" or "an extended period of looking".
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Looking back on Detroit music that's been around a long time, looking at Alice Cooper, even KISS, Detroit was one of the first major cities they were successful in.
Take a long time looking at the menu.
13 years might seem like a long time looking forward, but try looking back.
General Qais paused for a long time, looking up at the ceiling.
We mainly spent a long time looking at World of Warcraft.
To appreciate Mr. Bhavsar's paintings you need to spend a long time looking at them.
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Now there's Metrazur, an American brasserie that for a long time looked as if it would never get on track.
"Those of us in the field for a long time look at nontraditional candidates with understanding but with a little bit of sadness," Mrs. Evans said.
Covering Ireland in the west and reaching out to China in the east, the store's expansion has for a long time looked unstoppable.
He fingered it for a long time, looked up anxiously, and finally came to the conviction that even seventy feet was too much and that the distortion was not optical illusion but fact.
"The extinction crisis that we've all been talking about for a long time looks as if it is fast becoming a reality," said Craig Hiltof-thelor, of the British branch of the World Conservation Union.
More suggestions(16)
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a long time exploring
a long time addressing
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a long time acknowledging
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a long time coming
a busy time looking
a limited time looking
a good time looking
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