Usage examples of "longue période" in French with translation to English

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Une longue période de temps pluvieux est néfaste pour les plantes. A long spell of rainy weather is harmful to plants.
10 ans est une longue période à attendre. Ten years is a long time to wait.
Les documents relatifs à cette période sont particulièrement rares, peut-être à cause d'une longue série de désastres naturelles qui ont frappé la capitale. Records are particularly scarce for this era, perhaps owing to a long series of natural disasters which befell the capital.
Il se dressa et prit une longue inspiration. He stood up and took a deep breath.
Quelle période de l'histoire étudies-tu ? Which period of history are you studying?
La vie est une route très, très longue. Life is a long, long road.
Une période de beau temps nous permit de mettre la récolte à l'abri. A spell of fine weather enabled us to get the harvest in safely.
Il doit être un bon marcheur pour avoir couvert une distance aussi longue. He must be a good walker to walk such a long distance.
En Chine aussi, du verre est extrait des tombes de la période des royaumes combattants. In China too glass is being excavated out of graves from the Era of Warring States.
Cette réponse n'a pas lieu d'être nécessairement longue. This answer may not necessarily be wrong.
Des douzaines d'étoiles de la musique populaire sont couronnées et déchues sur une période de quelques années. Dozens of pop stars are crowned and uncrowned every few years.
Fred a écrit une longue lettre à sa mère. Fred wrote his mother a long letter.
Le soleil est actuellement en période de faible activité mais néanmoins de larges taches solaires apparaissent de temps en temps. The sun is currently in a period of low activity but even so large sunspots occasionally appear.
Les illusions n'ont pas la vie longue. Illusions are short lived.
Après avoir perdu son emploi, il a traversé une période très difficile. After losing his job, he went through a very difficult time.
Une longue file de chameaux se déplaçait vers l'ouest. A long train of camels was moving to the west.
Le temps change très souvent à cette période de l'année. The weather changes very often at this time of year.
Elle lui écrivit une longue lettre mais il ne la lut pas. She wrote him a long letter, but he didn't read it.
C'est la meilleure période pour voir les cerisiers en fleurs. The cherry blossoms are at their best.
L'accident laissa une longue et profonde déchirure sur le côté de l'avion. The accident left a long, deep gash in the side of the airplane.
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