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The phrase "alone for a long" is not correct in written English.
It is missing a noun or pronoun to clarify what is being referred to as "alone."
Example: "I felt alone for a long time after moving to a new city."
Alternatives: "isolated for an extended period" or "lonely for a long duration."
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That's part of having lived alone for a long time".
You make a party and then you're home alone for a long time.
Mr. Mladic gives the impression of someone who has been alone for a long time, Mr. Vekaric said, and who craves conversation.
He stood up, fixed himself a drink and went out in the backyard, and he sat there, alone, for a long time.
Richard and Susan, who've each been alone for a long time, meet at a beach resort in the off-season and fall in love.
Those two pieces were some of the first to convince me that I could be very happy completely alone for a long period of time if I had enough books with me.
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Just a few yards away, Jets Coach Herman Edwards had slid low in his chair, alone and, for a long stretch, speaking to no one.
"We intend to be a stand-alone business for a long time," Mr. Donahue said.
He felt apart from the others, drifting alone on the melody, as if he had been alone with it for a long while and had known it all before.
Or, "I sat alone with Zuckerberg for a long interview".
You will be awkward and alone and alien for a long time, but you will transform these qualities, which is to say yourself, into a work of art.
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