"terribly long time" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe a duration that is perceived to be exceptionally long or to emphasize the length of time that has passed. Example: "It took me a terribly long time to finish my dissertation, but the feeling of accomplishment was worth all the hard work."
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.
All it can enter is a plea of mitigation.Legal or not, the occupation has lasted a terribly long time.
If he is fortunate, the referendum pledge may cool down his party for a time, but I doubt it will be for a terribly long time.
That isn't a terribly long time, but it means that the mindstate for using the vaporizer is completely different from smoking.
How could a country founded on the principles of liberty and equality mistreat an entire race of people so terribly for such a long time?
Once upon a time, not terribly long ago, the Romanians were the queens of the gymnastics world.
The talk coming from senior Tories – at least some of whom have the grace to squirm when questioned on this topic – suggesting that it's all terribly complicated, that it was a long time ago and that even SS members were, in some ways, themselves victims, is uncomfortably close to the kind of prattle we used to hear from those we called Holocaust revisionists.
Ms. Garai, who lives in London, read Dodie Smith's canny and resolutely unsentimental 1948 novel "I Capture the Castle," on which the movie was based, when she was 13. "It's an amazing book to read when you're that age," Ms. Garai said during a recent visit to New York, "because you start to realize -- it sounds terribly corny, but it takes a long time to change from girlhood to womanhood.
So Browder's suicide this past June, at age 22, was a tragic affirmation of something thousands of New Yorkers who have gone through the bail process have known for a long, long time: Something is terribly wrong here.
