Tim | English Teacher 🇺🇸 on Instagram: "Long, or a long time… when can we use “long” instead of “a long time” in everyday conversations? In informal spoken and written English, native speakers often like to use “long” instead of “a long time”to speak faster, but we can’t always replace “a long time” with “long,” and that’s why I wanted to explain how to use this word as an adverb in today’s video. Below, you’ll find a summary of all the points that I cover in the video: 1. In English, we can u