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The phrase "need a long time" is grammatically correct and commonly used in written English.
It is typically used to express the amount of time required for a particular activity or task. For example: - "I need a long time to finish this project." - "We will need a long time to recover from the damage caused by the hurricane." - "The patient will need a long time to fully heal from their injuries." - "Learning a new language takes a long time, so be patient with yourself."
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"We need a long time.
"What's great about the recovery length is you don't need a long time series.
In addition, technicians need a long time to learn to use the database efficiently.
BEYOND requiring substantial initial outlays, vineyard investments need a long time to yield a return.
You need a long time to plan your enterprise before getting off the ground.
Corrosion of steel bars in concrete is usually a slow electrochemical process which may need a long time before damage becomes visible in the reinforced concrete (RC).
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'Simon Boccanegra' needed a long time to become accepted as another one of Verdi's masterpieces.
Both TA and MCH had slow self-assembly dynamics and needed a long time (> 24 h) to achieve adsorption equilibrium.
The poor regeneration property of the ZA sorbent, which needed a long time (600 min), was also improved by addition of these promoters.
Although incorporation of an ANN model is inexpensive, such a model needs a long time period of wave data for training, which is generally inconvenient to achieve.
A big brain presumably needs a long time to grow, and to be programmed, and to learn in gradual, cumulative style what it must know to survive.
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