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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a terribly long" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is excessively lengthy or time-consuming.
Example: "The meeting turned out to be a terribly long affair, lasting over three hours."
Alternatives: "an extremely long" or "a very lengthy".
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This went on for a terribly long time..
This went on for a terribly long time...
Not a terribly long time for discussion, but the book is sensational and a quick read.
"It is such a terribly long time since I last wrote to you," he says.
I consider it a comeback after a terribly long period of absence".
The second argument is that the economy has a terribly long way to go before it can be considered healthy.
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Once upon a time, not terribly long ago, the Romanians were the queens of the gymnastics world.
There's no reason to stay in a [default] postdoc terribly long".
Not terribly long ago, a conversation pissoir was still a novelty.
When I was a boy, which wasn't terribly long ago, American public education was not anathema to Christianity.
Not terribly long ago in a country that many people misremember, if they knew it at all, a black person was killed in public every four days for often the most mundane of infractions, or rather accusation of infractions – for taking a hog, making boastful remarks, for stealing 75 cents.
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