Example sentences of "[art] [adv] long period " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | Taking account again of the public concern about violent crime , in future I intend to exercise my discretion so that murderers of police or prison officers , terrorist murderers , sexual or sadistic murderers of children and murderers by firearm in the course of robbery can normally expect to serve at least 20 years in custody ; and there will be cases where the gravity of the offence requires a still longer period . |
| 33 | When he returned , after a slightly longer period than on the two previous occasions , Elisa had been persuaded to have a second cup of coffee . |
| 34 | With brightness masking , subjects report that although the target appeared to be present for a reasonably long period it was too vaguely defined — its contrast was too low for it to be identifiable . |
| 35 | There were several motives which might bring a man to commit himself to a fairly long period ( eight years in France from 1762 onwards ) of military service . |
| 36 | Moreover , a secretary attached to a legation or an embassy and not to an individual minister or ambassador , and remaining at his post over a fairly long period , could become a valuable source of information about local conditions : this might be of great help to a new head of mission coming to a strange country of which he knew little . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | In particular , the transition to democracy has seen a condensed and accelerated process of institutionalization of industrial relations , and of accompanying political exchange between the labour movement , employers and the state that would normally only be observable over a far longer period . |
| 39 | In RENFE since 1976 and in BR over a far longer period , a wide range of agreements have been reached through the machinery , giving the unions influence over the determination of virtually all aspects of conditions of employment and work organization . |
| 40 | Because you are agreeing to ‘ tie up ’ your savings for a comparatively long period , we offer an attractive rate of interest guaranteed throughout the term of the Bond . |
| 41 | They may be attached to a particular school for a single day or even part of a day , or for a substantially longer period . |
| 42 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 43 | Shoulthwaite Ghyll remained in a very good condition for a surprisingly long period . |
| 44 | The corrosion emanated from the joint between the bottom of the pressure dome and the fuselage and there was nicotine tar staining on the edge of the corroded area indicating that it had developed over a relatively long period . |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | 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 . |
| 47 | It should be borne in mind here that many trustees would be able to appoint the capital to relatively young beneficiaries so that the property might not be subject to a further charge for a relatively long period . |
| 48 | On the other hand all modern anthropologists and archaeologists would agree with the view that for a very long period of history mankind has existed solely by hunting , fishing , and gathering , and that such a technological stage always precedes domestication of plants and animals . |
| 49 | When you spread work like this over a very long period you are able to look into yourself , and see yourself in a great work of art . |
| 50 | For , despite acquiring a mass of archival material stretching over a very long period of time , the Chinese never developed anything corresponding to the modern Western concept of history . |
| 51 | There was therefore a very long period during which the need for a god was having its effect on the developing mind of man , but during which no god worship as now understood was practised . |
| 52 | Enterprise zone property trusts are established to be held as an investment for a very long period ( usually 25 years ) and as Capital Ventures warns : ‘ You may have difficulty in selling your investment before realisation of the underlying property … ’ |
| 53 | The fact that it is very difficult to do does n't prevent a lot of people wishing to achieve it , but it is very seldom that , in the industrial world , anybody has achieved and held continuously a pre-eminent position over a very long period of time . |
| 54 | Fact : The authors have chosen here to quote undiscounted and out-of-date figures although they make much play of discount rates elsewhere in their article and must be aware that the decommissioning costs concerned arise over a very long period of time stretching to the end of the twenty-first century and beyond . |
| 55 | It is then not surprising that for a very long period the most difficult problems in the social relations of cultural practice revolved around the question of literacy . |
| 56 | One possibility would be a statutory reformulation of Rylands v. Fletcher shorn of the qualifications and defences which so emasculate it now , perhaps on the lines of the Restatement , which imposes strict liability on one who carries on an ‘ abnormally dangerous activity , ’ but this would be open to varying judicial inclinations and would give rise to considerable uncertainty for a very long period of time . |
| 57 | Clearly this is consistent both with a period of about a day and with a very long period . |
| 58 | Investigations into the activities of this particular gang had been carried out over a very long period and they had been kept under constant surveillance by our officers who were thus able to feed us all the necessary information towards a successful interception . |
| 59 | Earth science papers have a very long period of use , compared to physics or engineering , but there is variation between sub-disciplines . |
| 60 | Conduction of heat occurs only very slowly through rock , and if this is the only mechanism operating uplift will occur over a very long period — something of the order of 100 Ma . |