Example sentences of "[noun] over [art] long period " in BNC.
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| 61 | Gas supply agreements often provide for the supply of gas over a long period , sometimes for a decade or more . |
| 62 | Any parent who has had an insomniac or hyperactive child will know the situation in which interruption of sleep over a long period frays tempers and seeks some other scapegoat than the child ; husband and wife may end in screaming at each other across the bedroom . |
| 63 | He has been a doughty fighter over a long period in favour of the use of democracy and dialogue and in condemnation of the use of violence . |
| 64 | The attempt to impose stricter limits on arms exports followed criticism at the time of the Gulf War of German weapons sales to Iraq over a long period [ see pp. 37639 ; 37471 ; 36498 ] . |
| 65 | Mrs Cochrane 's husband added : ‘ My wife had a depressive illness over a long period . |
| 66 | This allocation of bargaining rights to minority unions in some cases ( thereby institutionalising union pluralism ) may also help to explain the chronic weakness of union organisation in France over a long period . |
| 67 | He went on ‘ improving ’ this poem over a long period of years so that the text usually printed shows many alterations from the original . |
| 68 | Greek Intelligence must have been taking a more than passing interest in the activities of our friend Andropulos over a long period , years I would think . |
| 69 | What we are clearly seeing in some areas is roughly the same group of people exploiting the same local landscape for their subsistence requirements over a long period , but with successive generations living on different sites at different times . |
| 70 | The reason may lie in what happens to the teachers themselves when they first encounter it , rather than in the use they make of it directly with children over a long period . |
| 71 | It reached its present form over a long period of time during which there have been numerous law changes — not all of which have achieved their desired result , as Ian Kirkpatrick , Rutherford 's South African counterpart , was the first to point out . |
| 72 | Out of form over a long period , Lyle did not feel that he would be able to stand the pressure . |
| 73 | As to who would provide the care she said that where there is care over a long period of time , families often stop employing carers through an agency . |
| 74 | The incubation period may be up to one year , and this makes it difficult in many cases to decide from whom the warts have been caught ; not only that , but they often seem to have been seeded on the principle adhered to by market gardeners , to give successive crops over a long period . |
| 75 | We therefore laid our plans and moved out in good order over a long period of time . |
| 76 | To begin with , literacy in general was not , of course , independently invented in Greece , as Goody and Watt recognise : the form of literacy particular to Greece developed from the Semitic writing system over a long period of time . |
| 77 | Cook has incidentally been given a testimonial season by Transvaal for his outstanding services over a long period . |
| 78 | The majority of other types of skin cancer are the result of continued exposure to sunlight over a long period of time . |
| 79 | Alison is an artist who has made an important contribution over a long period |
| 80 | Damien , the wild card , has had a very visible year whilst Alison is an artist who has made an important contribution over a long period . |
| 81 | It also prevents one from churning out the same stuff of conversation over a long period to different people ( to use words at people ) which is using those people as hard reflective surfaces and not , as I feel properly , soft digestive reflective surfaces . |
| 82 | Fred has been encouraging pilferage over a long period . |
| 83 | Batteries last longer if they are charged and discharged in deep cycles over a long period . |
| 84 | In the short term , nitrogenous fertilizers , by increasing grasses and clovers , can result in an increase in the earthworm population , but continuous use of superphosphate or Nitro-chalk over a long period has been shown , in trials at Rothamstead , to reduce numbers in proportion to the amount of nitrogen applied . |
| 85 | It was common practice for marriage registers to record the places of abode of the newly-weds , and what Kendall did was to use this information to construct a crude measure of dissimilarity between villages based on frequency of intermarriage over a long period . |
| 86 | Given a little thought as to siting the Pentstemons will provide a lot of interest over a long period and should prevent the need for annual replanting , which can be expensive and labour intensive . |
| 87 | At any particular moment the books might not appear to balance ( for example electrical energy input could be stored to be released as heat later , or energy taken up while forcing the deuterium into the palladium may be returned later U the deuterium leaks out and recombines in the atmosphere ) , so the relevant question was whether there was a net excess output of energy over a long period of time . |
| 88 | However , a syndrome of this severity is not commonly reported in foals under natural conditions , probably because larval intake is continuous during grazing ; it has been show experimentally that foals may tolerate large numbers of larvae administered in small doses over a long period . |
| 89 | And for cooking the tastiest casseroles , there 's a special ‘ Slow-set ’ facility which lets you leave the food to cook itself at a very low temperature over a long period . |
| 90 | One of the tasks of a sponsor of such an event is to maximise on its appeal over a long period of time . |