Example sentences of "a long term " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Association can be justly proud of this project which has provided a fitting memorial for Lord Dowding and a long term investment in much needed welfare accommodation . |
| 2 | Such dramatic examples of commercial self-interest were not in reality offset by the more representative efforts of companies such as Unilever , Mitchell Cotts and Booker McConnell in English-speaking Africa , or CFAO in French-speaking Africa who had invested on a long term basis for relatively modest returns . |
| 3 | Most of all we need action to find a long term solution . |
| 4 | The company , headed by Lord Sharp , said the talks centred on China International Investment and Trust ( CITIC ) acquiring a ‘ significant minority interest ’ as a long term investment . |
| 5 | Though a long term objective , biological switches are already under test . |
| 6 | Also higher property transfer taxes and commision rates make selling a house a much less attractive option in Europe so people tend to treat a house as a long term home rather than as an investment . |
| 7 | Rapid inflation has increased the cost of planting further detracting from the willingness of farmers to contemplate introducing a long term investment like forestry , on any significant scale . |
| 8 | After a year 's postdoctoral research , including a short spell in Sweden on a British Council award , Worswick decided that a long term career at the bench was not for him . |
| 9 | A long term relationship with major US multinational companies , involving tens of products over more than 30 years . |
| 10 | When thinking about the future of the European Community , it is essential to take a long term view . |
| 11 | When bonds came on the market after this time they were sold quietly by the Bondholders Committee to members of the Club with a long term , proven interest in its affairs , who had either enquired about bonds or were offered them being regarded as suitable individuals . |
| 12 | It had an immediate effect , causing a long term , and dramatic drop in the Club 's profits . |
| 13 | This situation was a long term one for many children , as Figure 8 illustrates . |
| 14 | It simply stated that Mr. Cox was a long term member of the Communist Party and prominent in C.N.D. and that it was desired to investigate his activities to ascertain whether the Communist Party was manipulating C.N.D. in a clandestine way . |
| 15 | She , and her fellow patients , were then shown to Anstey Ward , which will accommodate 24 elderly men and women on a long term rehabilitation basis . |
| 16 | It is a long term problem of course , but it creates a vicious circle that only ends when you discard the circle entirely and approach the situation from a completely new angle . |
| 17 | It is a good thing to stop coffee anyway from a general health point of view but the benefits of this would only be apparent from a long term change , not just for a few days . |
| 18 | Part of him would have been sorry to hear that she had been shot , or sentenced to a long term of imprisonment in the filth of an Austrian gaol . |
| 19 | It may be that , over time , education can take a long term view of itself through the medium of the successful business . |
| 20 | But , in practice , there should be a long term programme of washing coal , extracting the sulphur from carbon , extracting flue gases , and building fluidised beds . |
| 21 | As part of a long term study of child development these workers assessed 954 seven-year-olds of an original sample of 1037 children born between 1 April , 1972 and 31 March , 1973 in the city of Dunedin , New Zealand . |
| 22 | If not have we a long term alternative or are we doomed to continue dealing in unrealities ? |
| 23 | Gradually , countries are coming to their senses and realising that non-stop exploitation of rainforest resources is not a long term answer to poverty . |
| 24 | I also tried to incorporate a strong element of freedom so that a long term eating habit could be created . |
| 25 | The Corporation would argue that attracting future private sector-led employment is a long term aim and that , given the nature of the task it is too soon to assess the success of its strategy . |
| 26 | The Commission defines joint ventures as undertakings jointly controlled by their parent companies and further specifies that undertakings are organisations intended to pursue a defined economic purpose on a long term basis . |
| 27 | It is a long term solution to fitness and health . |
| 28 | Walking makes you slim , builds cardiovascular fitness , and can develop into a long term habit that you can use for the rest of your life . |
| 29 | Although much has been made of the fact that Australian fast bowler Craig McDermott did n't become the first overseas player to represent the county , Indian batsman Sachin Tedulkar confirms a long term policy : overseas players are now welcome in Yorkshire cricket . |
| 30 | Shareholders who do not have a long term commitment are replaced by stakeholders who do , as the ‘ owners ’ of the company . |