long tunnel

collocation in English

meaningsoflongandtunnel

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long
adjective
uk
/lɒŋ/us
/lɑːŋ/
continuing for a large amount ...
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tunnel
noun[C]
uk
/ˈtʌn.əl/us
/ˈtʌn.əl/
a long passage under or through the ground, especially one made ...
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(Definition oflongandtunnelfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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But in order to get to us, he had to crawl through thislongtunnel.
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The rail link route then crosses the railway lands before entering alongtunnel.
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I have long supported the idea of alongtunnel.
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Single tracks in twin bores would have cost a further £50 million for thelongtunnel.
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However, it is still a verylongtunneland a very dark one.
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Have any detailed technical studies been made of the effect of driving trains at 150 mph through a verylongtunnel?
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The best option—alongtunnel—is very expensive and the surface options will cause unacceptable damage to the landscape.
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The first is that when you remove from any prisoner the element of hope—even at the end of a verylongtunnel—you have done something which.
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Alongtunnelon this line, passing under the apron as well as the strip, would cost about £1¼ million with single carriageway and £2¼ million with dual carriageways.
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The estimate cost of this 410mlongtunnelis £4·2 million and its traffic capacity is 4,500 vehicles per hour.
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Given all the problems that were bound to occur, it is disappointing that we should come out of alongtunnelonly to find more problems.
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It involved reversing the flow of a large river, and driving a 10-milelongtunnelthrough the mountain to supply a great power-house built right inside the mountain itself.
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He had to go through alongtunnel, and because of the dust in it he became in the end a victim of byssinosis.
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We are talking of a verylongtunneland costs of a magnitude of some £300 million as against perhaps £40 million for one of the other routes.
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To construct such alongtunnel—probably the longest that had ever been built in the world at that time—was no mean engineering feat.
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That was a gleam of light at the end of alongtunnelwhen we heard those announcements.
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However, we allowed ourselves perhaps to be beguiled by the ideal, but hugely expensive, plan of a verylongtunnel.
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Thelongtunneloption would add about two miles of tunnel, and perhaps 40 seconds in a tunnel for the rail traveller.
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It is another to drive a car through alongtunnelwith that light at the end a long way off.
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