Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] long period [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scientists are concerned that a special event , such as a sunspot or supernova might occur during this long period of communications blackout . |
| 2 | Nearly four years have passed since The Satanic Verses was declared blasphemous by the late Ayatollah Khomeini , and during this long period of internal exile there must have been times when Rushdie , experiencing deep changes and wrenches in the soul , has wondered at the prescience of those words . |
| 3 | From er re repeated stress repeated strain of of continuous long periods of sleep deprivation . |
| 4 | For three long periods during my time as a writer , now coming close to twenty years , barrenness and depression have gone together . |
| 5 | However , problems can arise in that long periods of notice may have to be given in order to arrange entry into such schools . |
| 6 | When we were in our twenties , we thought that life was full enough just thinking about ourselves in those long periods of freedom that the twenties offered , without having to fill them up with anything else . |