I was kept waiting for as long as two hours. - English example sentence

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orcrist February 15, 2014 February 15, 2014 at 1:36:57 PM UTC

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"as long as" is strange here, because clearly the speaker knows how long. In reality, the speaker would most likely say "for two hours", "for about two hours", "for more than two hours", or something similar.

I don't know that we could easily change the English, though, because there are a dozen sentences linked to it right now.