Example sentences of "long and [adj] period [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was only twenty-one years since Salisbury had concluded his long and successful period of power , and only twenty-eight years since another peer ( Rosebery ) had presided ( although less successfully ) over a Liberal Government . |
| 2 | A common image of health in old age is one associated with the loss of energy and personal drive , significantly greater need for rest , long and increasing periods of sickness , permanent experience of pain and discomfort , increasing immobility , the gradual loss of personal control and responsibility , the onset of incontinence , with the resulting loss of dignity and self-respect , increasing confusion , and ultimately the most feared condition of all , senility . |
| 3 | A reasonable employer would not , for example , be entitled to instruct a man who has just resumed work following a major heart attack to undertake immediately a long and arduous period of foreign travel . |
| 4 | In Britain , this moment has several phases during a long and turbulent period from the late-eighteenth century to the 1840s . |
| 5 | 1970 saw the start of a long and happy period for me in command of Venturous . |
| 6 | Had he done that — and this is advice every sensible lawyer would have given to him — he might have been able to return to public life without the long and painful period of atonement to which he was exposed . |
| 7 | I had a feeling when I read those words over 40 years ago , and written in the heat of the aftermath of a long and tiresome period of war , that Sir Arthur might have wished he had put it differently . |
| 8 | Forever on the move , meeting new faces , constantly in demand socially whenever she was off duty , Liza Tremayne found that there were longer and longer periods between the days when she still suffered black despair over the thought that she would never again see the man she so resembled in character and who had given her , had she known it , more love than he had ever bestowed upon any other woman . |