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The phrase "a long time maybe" is not standard in written English, but it can be understood in context.
It can be used when expressing uncertainty about the duration of time something may take or has taken.
Example: "I think it will take a long time maybe to finish this project, but I'm not sure."
Alternatives: "perhaps a long time" or "possibly a long time".
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"It'll take quite a long time, maybe 20 years.
For a long time – maybe always – Betsy's relationship with her mum had been a battleground.
We were fighting for a long time – maybe half an hour.
"We didn't intend to keep the Americans for a long time — maybe three to five days," he told me.
I stayed on the pill for a long time, maybe too long, and eventually I couldn't face it any more.
I talked about my dad in the present tense for a long time, maybe a year after he had died.
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The Internet is without a doubt the greatest new source of information to come along in a very long time, maybe ever.
Fusion could help deliver the energy supplies of the world for a very long time, maybe forever".
Williams said she intended to delete the Twitter app from her devices "for a good long time, maybe forever," after several users sent her extremely graphic, Photoshopped images of her father.
"I was there a very long time, maybe eight to 10 hours," said Chevoughn, who remembered being "petrified", particularly as police questioned her in what she calls a "cage".
Deleting this from my devices for a good long time, maybe forever.
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