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Meanings of unnecessarily long in English

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Usage of unnecessarily long in English
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It was tied with string, and the man seemed unnecessarily long untying the knot.
The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories
2
The process has already taken an unnecessarily long time.
The Irish Times
3
The upshot could be an unnecessarily long-winded approach to something that really is quite straightforward!
The South African
4
Then, the leader will either take an unnecessarily long fall, or even hit the ground.
Rock and Ice Magazine
5
She is, like you, encumbered with an unnecessarily long name, so I call her Millie.
Seraphina
6
The list is incredibly and most unnecessarily long.
North America — Volume 2
7
She cogitated unnecessarily long, then left the room to get a folio of newspapers and magazines.
The Devolutionist and the Emancipatrix
8
After a critical and unnecessarily long examination of this document I am graciously permitted to depart.
Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume I / From San Francisco to...
9
Whatever The Rifles' excuse, there's no getting around the fact that their fifth album is unnecessarily long.
The Irish Times
10
He was impatient to see Vandover and thought he stayed in his bath an unnecessarily long time.
Vandover and the Brute
11
After an unnecessarily long interval Mansell returned.
The Loom of Youth
12
After what seemed an unnecessarily long time, she heard Alex clumping up the stairs and along the hall.
Transgression: a novel of love and war
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He followed Mr. Sutton slowly up the steps, and spent an unnecessarily long time taking off his coat.
Mufti
14
He put it on, and she gazed at him for what seemed to him an unnecessarily long time.
The Roll-Call
15
After a quite unnecessarily long interval, in Henrietta's opinion, he returned with an irritable expression and flustered manner.
Deadham Hard: A Romance
16
At 135 minutes the film is unnecessarily long, especially when one lengthy digression in the middle feels so inorganic.
BBC
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Unnecessarily long through the time
Unnecessarily long across language varieties
United Kingdom
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