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Discover LudwigThe phrase "the long one" is correct and usable in written English
This can be used to refer to something that is longer than other things of its kind. For example: "Which of the two skirts should I wear - the short one or the long one?"
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Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun Times The best explanation was the long one on Salon.com.
Chromosome 1 is a prevalent site of numerical anomalies combining losses on the short arm and gains on the long one in breast carcinomas (Courjal and Theillet, 1997; Teixeira et al, 2002).
Del Rio then sent Scobee on for the long one.
Grab one of the other ones and place it next to the long one at an angle.
Probably the long one!
The short form of the game subsidises the long one.
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He likened the movies, especially the long ones, to sitting on a suitcase.
Place it in between the two groups on the long ones.
The long ones, however, were placed on the nest perimeter.
At 8 30 on a Saturday morning I was awakened in my hotel room by the long, one-note wail of a boat horn.
But, before "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" hit the screens, this unimpeachably original playwright had already produced another of what you might call his marriage plays, the long one-act "The American Dream" (1961).
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