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Niado Posted 10 years ago
Vocabulary
Long decade?
Hi every body,
What does the term "a long decade" mean?
Though the text that I've seen this, "2002-2013" was writen imidiately after the term. I'm guessing it means "more that one decade. Am I right?
Thank you in advance
What does the term "a long decade" mean?
Though the text that I've seen this, "2002-2013" was writen imidiately after the term. I'm guessing it means "more that one decade. Am I right?
Thank you in advance
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No. It probably means that the period 2002-2013 seemed like a long time. eg If we are sitting in the dentist's chair, we might say 'That was a long 5 minutes'.
- No.
- It probably means that the period 2002-2013 seemed like a long time.
- eg If we are sitting in the dentist's chair, we might say 'That was a long 5 minutes'.
- You need to give us some context.
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No. It probably means that the period 2002-2013 seemed like a long time.
eg If we are sitting in the dentist's chair, we might say 'That was a long 5 minutes'.
You need to give us some context.
eg If we are sitting in the dentist's chair, we might say 'That was a long 5 minutes'.
You need to give us some context.
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dear Clive,
The text is talking about the presidency era of who had both positive and negative points in his career, according to the text.
The text is talking about the presidency era of who had both positive and negative points in his career, according to the text.
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Providing more context helps get better answer. Perhaps it means a lot happened.
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I order to providing more contexts I’d like to add:
1. This term has come at the begging paragraph of an article explaining a negative change in political approaches after the new president has took office in 2013. The article tries to find the seeds in the era of the last president who has totally positive political approaches.
2. Last president was in power for 3 periods whic
1. This term has come at the begging paragraph of an article explaining a negative change in political approaches after the new president has took office in 2013. The article tries to find the seeds in the era of the last president who has totally positive political approaches.
2. Last president was in power for 3 periods whic
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Then perhaps it is simply a way of saying that it was actually longer than 10 years, which is (as you know) a decade.
I wouldn't worry too much about it.
We can say "a long [time period]" to mean that it felt like it was longer (as Clive says, five minutes in the chair at the dentist can feel much longer), or that it was a very so full of action/events that you would think it ha
I wouldn't worry too much about it.
We can say "a long [time period]" to mean that it felt like it was longer (as Clive says, five minutes in the chair at the dentist can feel much longer), or that it was a very so full of action/events that you would think it ha
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Thanks a lot for the comments, and specially for the grammatical hints.
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