Example sentences of "[be] long period [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , sometimes it is not very useful , as there may have been long periods without any clear artistic developments , such as the Roman empire of the fourth and fifth centuries or the early medieval period . |
| 2 | Between these comparatively shortlived events were long periods of stability when plate tectonics was at work . |
| 3 | Did morphological change in a lineage — the human lineage , for example — take place slowly , like a steady stream , or were long periods of stasis punctuated by bursts of rapid change , like Old Faithful ? |
| 4 | But there were long periods of tension . |
| 5 | Although he was obliged to ‘ share ’ Madeleine with Dunbar during lunch and after the game — which he found incredibly exciting — there were long periods during the chukkers when he had her undivided attention . |
| 6 | You know , that is a good test of your relationship with a person if there is a sense in which you are embarrassed to be with them , and there 's long periods of silence it 's a pretty good test that it 's not a deep relationship you have with them . |