We had to wait a heck of a long time!

我们只好等了很长时间！

They took a long time to mend the roof.

他们花了好长时间修缮房顶。

I waited a long time for him to return.

我等他回来等了很长时间。

That cut is taking a long time to heal.

那伤口需要很长时间才能愈合。

It's been such a long time since I played.

自从我上次演奏以来已经过了这么长时间了。

They have been missing for a long time now.

到现在他们已经失踪很长时间了。

It took a long time for the wounds to heal.

伤口过了很长时间才愈合。

It's the best news I've heard in a long time.

这是我很长时间以来听到的最好消息。

He took a long time getting to sleep that night.

他那天晚上过了好长时间才睡着。

New fashions took a long time to percolate down.

新时尚要很长时间才能在大众中流行起来。

It took her a long time to get ready for church.

她花了很长时间才准备好去教堂。

I haven't enjoyed myself so much for a long time.

我好长时间没有这么快活了。

For a long time his death was concealed from her.

他的死瞒了很长时间都没告诉她。

We have known each other socially for a long time.

我们在社交场合相识有很长时间了。

It was a hurt that would take a long time to heal.

那是需要很长时间才能愈合的创伤。

It took a long time to wash the mud out of his hair.

花了很长时间才把泥从他头发上洗掉。

He took a long time to settle in to big-time football.

他花了很长时间才在第一流的足球运动中立足。

The traffic took a long time to clear after the accident.

事故过去后很长时间交通才恢复畅通。

It took me a long time to thread my way through the crowd.

我花了很长时间才从人群中挤过去。

Since the roads are very bad, the trip took us a long time.

由于道路很差，这次旅程花费了我们很长时间。

They walked for a long time and covered a good deal of ground.

他们步行了很长时间，走了好长的一段路。

It took me a very long time to get over the shock of her death.

我过了很长时间才从她去世的震惊中恢复过来。

It was a long time since she'd referred to her father's desertion.

自从她谈到被父亲遗弃已经很长时间了。

It's taken a long time to break out of my own conventional training.

摆脱我自己的传统训练花了很长一段时间。

It's been a long time since I heard a blackbird's song in the evening.

我已经好长时间没在晚上听到黑鹂的鸣叫声了。

It's been a long time since these two teams faced each other in the playoffs.

这两个队已经有很长时间没在夺标决赛中相遇了。

It has taken a long time to wade through the "incredible volume" of evidence.

已经花费了很长时间来研读这宗“卷帙浩瀚”的证据。

We've been friends a long time.

我们是老朋友了。

He's been ill (for) a long time.

他生病很久了。

It's a long time since they left.

他们已经离开很久了。