Below you will find example sentences with "longest period". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Longest Period in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: longest
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 4
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 23.8 words

Words in this phrase

longest period

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • longest can mean: superlative form of long: most long Frequent word
  • period can mean: A length of time. Common word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 5 start, 11 middle, 4 end
  • Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations

Usage patterns

These patterns show short text windows around the phrase in the example sentences:

ago the longest period of totality 1× and the longest period we had 1× as the longest period to hold 1× celebrating the longest period of democracy 1× for the longest period 1× for the longest period of time 1× for the longest period to be 1× for the longest period without an 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

a 10 week 1× albeit it is 1× between 2008 and 1× cities and landmarks 1× don shula was 1× during the past 1×

Common sentence endings:

10 8 years 1× a long time 1× a shut out 1× according to motherboard 1× after 652 days 1× an extended discount 1×

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

record 3× years 3× party 3× held 2× shut 2× year 2× average 2× experienced 2× seconds 2× great 2× government 2× seven 2×

Related phrases

reporting period same period first period extended period longest serving third period transition period brief period grace period lockdown period

Phrases around this combination

Other phrases discovered around longest:

longest serving 9× longest cooking 4× longest river 4× longest running 4× longest active 3× longest streak 3×

Just before it in the phrase index:

longest cooking longest active longer term longer periods longer needed longer exists

Just after it in the phrase index:

longest river longest running longest serving longest streak longtime friend longtime girlfriend

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same start:

longest serving longest cooking longest river longest running longest active longest streak

Same ending:

reporting period same period first period extended period third period transition period

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "longest period" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 23.8 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as ago the longest period of totality, and the longest period we had, record, years and party stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with reporting period, same period, first period, longest serving, longest cooking and longest river, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with longest period

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Short example sentences

Cities and landmarks are covered in snow for the longest period. (11 words)

In March, Facebook and Instagram suffered their longest period of disruption ever. (12 words)

The second-longest period of dominance by one party since the war is done. (14 words)

Longer example sentences

Last time round, Belgium broke its own 589-day record for the longest period without an elected government, with De Croo sworn in as prime minister of a seven-party government, known as the Vivaldi coalition, after 652 days. (39 words)

Don Shula was head coach on the losing side that time, so he held the record for the longest period to be held under a shut out as well as the longest period to hold a shut out. (38 words)

If you look at countries that have had longest period of one party rule, or military dictatorship tend to be the most stable; whether it is Libya you talk about or Cote De Voire until recently. (36 words)

Exclamation examples

My wife and I did a little experiment, driving from Episkopi to Limassol and the longest period we had a gap of no graffiti was 15 seconds! (27 words)

Example sentences (20)

Don Shula was head coach on the losing side that time, so he held the record for the longest period to be held under a shut out as well as the longest period to hold a shut out.

During the past year, houses in Melbourne recorded the longest period of ownership at an average of 12.5 years, while Perth had the longest average for units at 10.8 years.

It was mostly after the GFC that the fund experienced most of its longest period of trading at an extended discount.

My wife and I did a little experiment, driving from Episkopi to Limassol and the longest period we had a gap of no graffiti was 15 seconds!

This is the longest period of decline on record, even longer than during the Great Recession.

Albeit, it is a great achievement that Nigeria is celebrating the longest period of democracy.

Last time round, Belgium broke its own 589-day record for the longest period without an elected government, with De Croo sworn in as prime minister of a seven-party government, known as the Vivaldi coalition, after 652 days.

Rawaid Javed, mitigating, said his client has been off alcohol for three weeks which is his longest period of abstinence for a long time.

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Seven years ago, the longest period of totality was experienced near Carbondale, Illinois, at 2 minutes, 42 seconds.

The second-longest period of dominance by one party since the war is done.

Cities and landmarks are covered in snow for the longest period.

Every New Zealander was indebted to Hunt who paid "the ultimate price for the cowardly actions of a criminal" who should be incarcerated for the longest period of time that the law provided.

For some tenants, she said, Marshall House represented the longest period of stable housing they had ever had.

Islam has not seen his family in over a year — the longest period he has been away from home — and he misses them greatly.

It’s the longest period of time in which no cases have been diagnosed here.

The UK is one of the chief pillars of the post-war rule of international law which has underwritten the world’s longest period of relative peace and prosperity.

A 10-week camp leading into the World Cup was the longest period of uninterrupted time the group had spent together.

In March, Facebook and Instagram suffered their longest period of disruption ever.

Between 2008 and 2016, Google did not update the satellite imagery of this area, which is the longest period a stretch of the continental US has gone without an update, according to Motherboard.

If you look at countries that have had longest period of one party rule, or military dictatorship tend to be the most stable; whether it is Libya you talk about or Cote De Voire until recently.

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