He began by saying that he would not speak very long.
彼はあまり長くは話さないつもりですといって話を始めた。
He has a reputation for taking a long time to make a decision.
彼は決心を下すのに長く時間がかかるということで有名だ。
She survived her husband by ten years.
彼女は夫よりも10年長生きした。
It wasn't me, commissioner!
それは私じゃないよ、理事長!
We encounter similar difficulties when we substitute rectangles for triangles in this configuration.
この構成において、三角形の変わりに長方形を用いても類似の困難が生ずる。
It's said that the mayor is on the take.
市長が賄賂を受け取ったんですって。
How tall are you?
あなたの身長はどのくらいありますか。
The treatment prolonged the agony.
治療は苦痛を長引かせた。
I was kept waiting for a long time at the hospital.
私は長い間病院で待たされた。
He was elected as chairman from among many candidates.
彼は多くの候補者の中から議長に選ばれた。
I don't like to be kept waiting for a long time.
私は長い間待たされるのは嫌いだ。
This avenue is wide but not very long.
この通りは広いが、あまり長くない。
His novel had a great vogue for a long time.
彼の小説は長い間たいへん人気があった。
He has just become a principal.
彼は校長になったばかりだ。
The captain gave orders for a salute to be fired.
隊長は礼砲を放つように命じた。
The presiding judge was touched by pity for the accused.
裁判長は被告に大いに同情していた。
It is not surprising that he was elected mayor.
彼が市長に選ばれたのは驚くべきことではない。
Everybody has his merits and demerits.
すべての人は長所と短所を持っている。
Then, while saying this, the memories of the men who had seduced her, her husband's colleague who had approached her as if it were a joke, the section chief with whom she had held hands, her relative who she had tried to kiss while she was drunk, shined a
Mr Smith was announced as the succeeding chairman.
スミス氏が後任の委員長として発表された。
In nine cases out of ten it will be the very thing that I have long wanted.
十中八九それこそまさに私が長い間欲しがっていた物だろう。
Because of the protracted depression, many workers are unemployed.
長引く不況のために、多くの労働者が失業している。
A square is one type of rectangle, and a rectangle is one type of parallelogram.
正方形は長方形のうちの一つですし、長方形は平行四辺形の一つです。
It took me a long time to recover from pneumonia.
肺炎が治るのに長い時間かかった。
She has lived alone for ages.
彼女はとても長い間一人で暮らしている。
It has a wingspan of about four inches.
それは翼の全長がや約4インチある。
The visitor has gone away five minutes before you came back.
お客様は社長が戻られる5分前に、帰られました。
His success came of long years of perseverance.
彼の成功は長年の不屈の努力の結果だ。
Mr. Smith is a candidate for mayor.
スミス氏は市長候補である。
The captain controls the whole ship.
船長は船のすべてを統制する。
The captain exercised the new recruits with long marches.
隊長は長時間行進させて新兵たちを訓練した。
And so the two little rabbits lived together happily in the big forest; eating dandelions, playing Jump The Daisies, Run Through The Clover and Find The Acorn all day long.