Sentence:  In `` The King 's Ride '' , Charles breaks out of a <WSD>long</WSD> period of petulance and inertia , regains his old self , escapes from Turkey , and finally reaches his own land after an absence of eighteen years . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified