Betekenis van:
at long last
at long last
Bijwoord
- as the end result of a succession or process
"at long last the winter was over"
Synoniemen
Werkwoord
Voorbeeldzinnen
- The long discussion came to an end at last.
- The long game came to an end at last.
- At long last, you will get married in June.
- The long war came to an end at last.
- At last we meet! I've waited so long for this day!
- At long last, the two chiefs of the Indian tribes have decided to make peace.
- At long last he made up his mind to propose to her.
- The long cruel winter at last came to an end, giving place to a gentle warm spring.
- At long last, the two chiefs of the Indian tribes have decided to bury the hatchet and smoke the peace pipe.
- The measure under assessment, however, would last as long as the escrow account, estimated at 17 years.
- The 1997 reference rate notice, which was in force in 2007 set rates by reference to observed rates of a specific duration, namely five years. The measure under assessment, however, would last as long as the escrow account, estimated at 17 years.
- ‘Last but not least, the economic report observes, as if there was any need to, that France Télécom was not a firm in difficulty at the time of the events in question (as it had access to the capital markets and no long-term viability problem) and that the participation by the State shareholder in the plan to rebalance the company's balance sheet was in keeping with the private investor criterion, thereby confirming the absence of any aid element in the financial measures forming the subject-matter of the Commission's investigation’.
- This burner shall be switched on automatically when the temperature of the combustion gases after the last injection of combustion air falls below the temperatures set out in paragraph 2. It shall also be used during plant start-up and shut-down operations in order to ensure that those temperatures are maintained at all times during these operations and as long as unburned waste is in the combustion chamber. The auxiliary burner shall not be fed with fuels which can cause higher emissions than those resulting from the burning of gas oil as defined in Article 2(2) of Council Directive 1999/32/EC of 26 April 1999 relating to a reduction in the sulphur content of certain liquid fuels [36], liquefied gas or natural gas.