Example sentences of "[adv] long period [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If subject to stress for a sufficiently long period of time all ‘ solid ’ materials are capable of flow . |
| 2 | However , if gains are kept offshore for a sufficiently long period of time , the return on investment may exceed the increased capital gains tax liability . |
| 3 | Teachers often report that they completely switch off at the beginning of the holidays , or sleep for abnormally long periods of time for several days . |
| 4 | in order to get a better estimate of how accurately the clock works we need to be able to study it for much longer periods of time . |
| 5 | In prolonged breeding , on the other hand , mating takes place over much longer periods of time , or indeed throughout the year . |
| 6 | It may turn out to be one or two meetings only or a much longer period of time . |
| 7 | This of course was not the main part of the work , but a pilot study used to test and refine some hypotheses about the wider sociolinguistic situation , which was then investigated more fully over a much longer period of time . |
| 8 | But you know we have to look beyond the first year or two , we have to look at what 's going to happen to that school over a much longer period of time , and quite frankly erm I would feel safer with erm what was called the big brother of the Local Authority . |
| 9 | Work groups differ from free-forming groups outside employment in that they evolve over long periods of time . |
| 10 | Here at last was the starting point for a science that would attempt to explain the present state of the earth and its inhabitants in terms of natural processes acting over long periods of time . |
| 11 | Georgi Lozanov 's work is particularly apposite to memory training ; students learn a remarkable number of words at a session , with little or no forgetting over long periods of time . |
| 12 | Though involving less spectacular rates of uplift , crustal unloading by denudation is a far more pervasive process which extends over long periods of time , in contrast to the rather transient effects of deglaciation and evaporation of lakes . |
| 13 | But surely the proposition that the unemployment rate could be held below its natural value for fairly long periods of time runs counter to the neoclassical model of labour market behaviour ? |
| 14 | Interestingly , in those subjects living for fairly long periods in isolation , in whom the pattern of sleep and activity becomes irregular ( see Chapter 2 ) , meals too become erratic in their numbers and composition . |
| 15 | What we try to do is to make available to people opportunities for study in depth and over a fairly long period of time , on issues and in subjects which are part of University activity . |
| 16 | ‘ The Home Secretary was n't persuaded then and there has n't been a particularly long period of time since , so it is not likely that there will be any review . ’ |
| 17 | The majority had therefore experienced secure employment for relatively long periods of time . |
| 18 | In other words , the practice of placing infants to sleep on their own , for relatively long periods of time , which is widespread in Western industrialised societies , is not only historically and culturally unique but also evolutionarily recent . |
| 19 | Programs typically reference the same limited areas of storage for relatively long periods of time . |
| 20 | Aerobic exercise is characterized by the body using large muscle groups in rhythmical continuous activity for relatively long periods of time . |
| 21 | Mood in such circumstances , however , generally refers to a state such as depression typically continuing for relatively long periods of time , often hours or days . |
| 22 | However , the considerations given earlier on overflow area size and the need to allow for a relatively long period between reorganizations will guide the designer to a reasonable compromise . |
| 23 | It was the relatively long period of life from birth to the end of physical dependence on the parents that built into the human being , an eradicable awareness of his vulnerability and a deeply-rooted instinctive expectation that his needs will be met from a source outside himself . |
| 24 | This was particularly the case with patients who had been given methadone reduction over a relatively long period of time , say two to three months . |
| 25 | Above all it is important for the staff planning groups to decide what ‘ interdisciplinary ’ work or topic work will actually mean for the learner in practice , and choice will depend in part on the school 's view of the ‘ whole picture ’ spread across quite long periods of time , with the teachers planning carefully how they intend to create a balanced curriculum over weeks and months . |
| 26 | For quite long periods of time it went away and he forgot it . |
| 27 | There is little systematic evidence of how people in other cultures get on with one another , but it should be noted that within a tribal community there may be such strong libidinal ties among the members that the interrelations among them appear peaceful , and may be so for quite long periods of time . |
| 28 | You 'll spend quite long periods of time working entirely alone , but study need not be an unsociable , let alone an anti-social , process . |
| 29 | So even when prices do fall very low for quite long periods of time , alright , farmers will still maintain production , even they 're making losses . |
| 30 | About half of the people detained under Immigration Act powers in general do not wish to challenge the decision that they should leave but they need help winding up their affairs here , contacting their friends and families and pressing the Home Office to process their cases quickly so that they do not have to spend unnecessarily long periods in prison . |