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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a long time time" is not correct due to the repetition of the word "time." It can be used if you meant to emphasize the duration, but it is better to avoid redundancy.
Example: "I haven't seen him in a long time."
Alternatives: "a long duration" or "an extended period".
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To restore lost trust would take a long time – time that we don't have.
To whatever degree Miranda ever impeded law enforcement, its effect abated a long time time ago.
Piketty's book, and his charismatic sweep through the pundit classes, are crystallizing a conversation that America should have already had, seriously, a long time time ago.
"I don't want to be controversial, but the fact is that these movie stars made millions a long time time ago, and they kept quiet about it for so long.
But before that night, they spend their time enjoying marital bliss, and watching the city exhale in the late evening: "They stood there for a long time, time enough for the moon to hop from one tree across the road to another...
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But "all time" is a long time.
Good time or a long time?
Which takes time — often, a long time.
Which takes time often, a long time.
But it's long time, a long time he doesn't play," Guardiola said.
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