The phrase "actually long" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to emphasize the true length of something, often in contrast to an expectation or assumption.
Example: "I thought the meeting would be short, but it was actually long and filled with discussions."
Alternatives: "truly lengthy" or "really extensive".
I was beginning to suspect that he had actually long since forgotten... the rest of us in this quiet madness.
In extreme cases, when the wait becomes actually long, instead of merely perceptibly long, things fall apart.
He said that just recently, in Pittsburgh, although Seamus had actually long since shuffled off this mortal coil.
The short coats were actually long jackets and are the perfect toppers for women who prefer pants to long dresses.
Hubble's image of M51, also known as the Whirlpool Galaxy, shows the majestic spiral arms that are actually long lanes of stars and gas laced with dust.
How many Americans, experiencing economic disaster and two seemingly endless wars, would, far from fearing it, actually long for the curtailed respite of a "Twilight Zone" scenario?
Peggy Post, Director of the Emily Post Institute says, "One year is actually really long.
"It's actually a really, really long story," he says.
The month had begun with Chesney PI raising an invisible eyebrow of suspicion towards Stape and attempting to flush out the truth by leading Charlotte Hoyle's parents straight to his de-hinged brother-in-law, who they still believed to be the actually long-dead Colin Fishwick.
One of the peculiarities of the U.S. budget process is that we don't distinguish between "expenditures" that are actually long-term investments, often with high returns for the economy as a whole, and expenditures that are consumption in the traditional sense of the word.
By James Surowiecki October 20, 2008 One of the peculiarities of the U.S. budget process is that we don't distinguish between "expenditures" that are actually long-term investments, often with high returns for the economy as a whole, and expenditures that are consumption in the traditional sense of the word.
