long career

collocation in English

meaningsoflongandcareer

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long
adjective
uk
/lɒŋ/us
/lɑːŋ/
continuing for a large amount ...
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career
noun[C]
uk
/kəˈrɪər/us
/kəˈrɪr/
the job or series of jobs that you do during your working life, especially if you continue to get better jobs and earn ...
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(Definition oflongandcareerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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But was this merely an isolated instance or one example in alongcareerof so doing?
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Gros had an especiallylongcareerand a rather slow ascent to higher office.
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Curtin, closing hislongcareeras a sage, knows how to navigate difficult terrain, overcome obstacles and pick up broken pieces, making them into a whole.
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He was a soldier by temperament and outlook and by alongcareerin the office he then held.
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I am on record over quite alongcareeras thinking that they are not, and saying so.
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In point of fact that has never obtained in the whole of my ratherlongcareer.
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We are starting upon alongcareerof struggle in which legislation and the use of legislation will play an important part.
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In hislongcareerin public life he had to face good and evil times.
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If he carries on asking such questions, it could be a verylongcareerbreak.
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My reference will be to what is perhaps one of the lesser known episodes in hislongcareer.
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This is not a case like that of the cadet officer of the past at the start of alongcareer.
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It was alongcareer, strenuous, and manysided.
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I have experienced a great deal in mylongcareeras a politician.
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During hislongcareerhe spent time on both.
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They do not wish to live with in-laws at the end of alongcareer.
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He has had alongcareerin overseas affairs.
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