Below you will find example sentences with "too long". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Too Long in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: too
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 12
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 26.5 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 1 start, 13 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "too long" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 26.5 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as a bit too long but it, and take too long to build, waiting, far and models stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with long jump, feet long, long periods, too little, too big and too late, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with too long
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
We have suffered too much for too long, we are citizens of Linden too. (14 words)
It focused too intently for too long on discretionary purchases even after the pandemic trend faded. (16 words)
Thus, too many German types have ascenders which are too long and descenders which are too short. (17 words)
Several Tesla models imported into China—the Models S, X and 3—as well as two models made in China— the Models Y and 3— may not provide drivers adequate warning when they step on the accelerator pedal too hard or for too long. (44 words)
Sure, things work out a little too easily in the end and it’s a bit too long, but it also keeps you laughing and smiling throughout its run-time while also being touching enough to elicit some tears too. (40 words)
The ECB has repeatedly highlighted the dangers of price pressures becoming embedded and has warned about pressures staying "too high for too long", citing measures of core inflation that strip out energy and food prices from the headline rates. (39 words)
Example sentences (20)
Assassin's Creed Odyssey wasn't just too long and too big, but it felt too big and too long for no important reason.
Sure, things work out a little too easily in the end and it’s a bit too long, but it also keeps you laughing and smiling throughout its run-time while also being touching enough to elicit some tears too.
From what I can tell, you might be at risk of being too risk-averse; you could be on the verge of waiting too long and being too cautious.
I write these songs for Skillet, and then, sometimes I write songs that are too heavy and the lyrics are too dark, or the guitar solos are too long.
We have suffered too much for too long, we are citizens of Linden too.
Thus, too many German types have ascenders which are too long and descenders which are too short.
Newsom said Tuesday in his State of the State address it “would cost too much and take too long” to build the line long championed by his predecessor, Jerry Brown.
After Mantiply entered the game as a reliever, he took too long to throw his warmup pitches—then Davis was too slow to get ready for the pitch.
Because it's a midaxi length, people of most heights should be able to wear it without coming up too long or too short.
But we have been too slow for too long on one essential building block: the Capital Markets Union.
Far too many people in Peterborough are waiting far too long for care, and the result is that record numbers of people are spending their final months waiting for treatment that never arrives.
However, the storytellers didn't quite earn it, holding back too much about Fury's relationship to him for too long.
It focused too intently for too long on discretionary purchases even after the pandemic trend faded.
Several Tesla models imported into China—the Models S, X and 3—as well as two models made in China— the Models Y and 3— may not provide drivers adequate warning when they step on the accelerator pedal too hard or for too long.
That is a drop of five per cent from when Cowell began his work in November, but he admits it is still far too many Albertans waiting for too long.
The ECB has repeatedly highlighted the dangers of price pressures becoming embedded and has warned about pressures staying "too high for too long", citing measures of core inflation that strip out energy and food prices from the headline rates.
The list of failures is now just too long, the depth of shortcomings too obvious, for even the SNP’s core support to ignore.
This is due to decisions being made from holding onto losers for too long and cutting winners too early.
This was WAY too long (longer than the 1991/1992 editions combined) with far too much time spent standing around and not even trying to win the match.
As well as students being around in the hallways too much for too long, so all of these things were brought up.