Example sentences of "be [vb pp] in the long run " in BNC.

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1 The main changes will be seen in the long run when you look back , so it is sometimes useful to have photographs taken of yourself just before , and just after , your course of lessons .
2 Cooperation seems to be less of an immediate necessity with market-determined exchange rates , but coordination of national policies still seems desirable if conflict and economic stagnation are to be avoided in the long run .
3 Monetarists argue that increases in money supply have a large effect on aggregate demand ( certainly in the long run ) because the L curve is inelastic and investment is responsive to changes in interest rates ; but that this increase in aggregate demand will simply be reflected in the long run in higher prices : the AS curve is vertical .
4 However much Labour may talk about public expenditure , it normally makes such a mess of the economy that there is little benefit to be found in the longer run .
5 Pétain was also a disciple of attrition , but in an entirely different sense from Joffre and Haig with their inhumanly simple calculations that the Germans could be beaten in the long run through losing man for man , by virtue of the Allied superiority in cannon fodder .
6 The Six had reverted to Schuman 's view that political union could be achieved in the long run through a sustained effort at economic integration across a broad front .
7 In a cumbersome way it seems to have done this fairly effectively , for it was difficult for an official to embezzle royal money without being exposed in the long run , although the run was often so long that he was dead before it finished .
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