| 100% | CENTURIES | 9 | A long time to censure it, perhaps |
| 56% | EONS | 4 | A long time to wait |
| 56% | AGES | 4 | A long time to cultivate sage |
| 55% | CENTURIES | 9 | Somehow censure it for a long time |
| 55% | YEARNS | 6 | A long time to get new aches |
| 54% | LINGERING | 9 | Taking a long time to go |
| 53% | AGENTS | 6 | Brokers take a long time to get book |
| 52% | LOB | 3 | Tennis shot that takes a long time to land |
| 52% | AFRO | 4 | Hairdo that may take a long time to grow |
| 51% | DATENIGHT | 9 | Time to hire a babysitter, perhaps |
| 51% | LOB | 3 | Tennis shot that takes a long time to hit the court |
| 49% | AGES | 4 | It's a long time |
| 49% | STOPWATCH | 9 | Timer to measure how long a sprint takes |
| 47% | EON | 3 | It's been a long time |
| 47% | EON | 3 | It's quite a long time |
| 47% | SPINS | 5 | "For a long time, it was believed that the sun ___ around the earth." |
| 46% | TIPPERARY | 9 | It's a Long Way to __, John McCormack |
| 46% | EON | 3 | Time it takes for a mountain to form |
| 46% | PATIENT | 7 | Willing to wait a long time |
| 45% | NEWSCYCLE | 9 | Time it takes to forget about a story, say |
| 45% | NSEC | 4 | Time it takes light to travel a ft., roughly |
| 45% | NSEC | 4 | Time it takes light to travel a ft., approximately |
| 45% | AGO | 3 | It may appear after a long time |
| 45% | AGO | 3 | "It was a long time ___..." |
| 45% | AGO | 3 | "It was a long time ___" |
| 45% | AGO | 3 | "It was a long time ___ ..." |
| 45% | AGO | 3 | "It happened a long time ___" |
| 45% | IRON | 4 | "Strike while the ___ is hot" (apt time to execute a plan, perhaps) |
| 44% | SHADOW | 6 | It's used to tell the time on a sundial |
| 44% | ONEHOUR | 7 | Time it takes to develop a set of photos, maybe |