Example sentences of "[prep] a long period of " in BNC.
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| 31 | Freud thought that the need for a long period of education for young men and women in the ‘ civilized ’ sections of modern societies was linked with the development of neurotic illness because of the deferment of sexual gratification necessary while education took place . |
| 32 | Part of this dependence is simply being used to being ‘ under the influence ’ or ‘ stoned ’ for a long period of time and drugs such as cannabis and amphetamines may go some way to overcoming this problem . |
| 33 | The first step in achieving this objective is to guarantee a place on Employment Training ( ET ) for everyone who has been out of work for a long period of time . |
| 34 | In the Chandni Chowk shopkeepers boarded up their premises , buried their treasure and prepared for a long period of unrest . |
| 35 | The reason for all this is because carp are very hard fish to catch and carp fishermen fish for a long period of time often a few nights and days . |
| 36 | It then lends the money to house purchasers for a long period of time by granting mortgages ( typically these are paid back over 20 to 30 years ) . |
| 37 | I think the other possibility to take Stella 's point is that if there is a change that 's come up because of an audit , where a particular job has been audited and you know that within the next week or so another similar job is being audited , it may make sense to refer it 'til the next meeting , providing you 're not deferring it for a long period of time , to compar the results of the two jobs . |
| 38 | Andrew , is there a feature in this plan called waiver of premium , what these means to you is that if you 're off ill for a long period of time , through accident , ill-health , whatever , Abbey will actually still pay them for you , until you 're well again . |
| 39 | In the Covermaster Plan , Andrew , there 's something called waiver of premium , what this means to you is that if you 're off work through illness for a long period of time , Abbey 's going to pay the premiums for you . |
| 40 | Now reference was made to the police finance working party which met for a long period of time , and unfortunately made no progress whatsoever in zero base budgeting . |
| 41 | We have had a problem for a long period of time now on high conductivity . |
| 42 | Your friends usually are the one you have known for a long period of time , for example at work or at university . |
| 43 | for a long period of time |
| 44 | Yeah but you 're not used to him being home all the time are you Lyn , I mean for a long period of time like . |
| 45 | Perhaps the attitude developed during a long period of established practice and little change . |
| 46 | It is fortunately in the hands of such a man as Captain Vidal , R.N. , who has steadily devoted himself , during a long period of ill-health , to complete this unpopular work , and to connect with it a minute examination of the Canary Islands . ’ |
| 47 | Many of the submerged banks and the bottoms of the lagoons of the atolls seem to be at a remarkably uniform depth , as one would expect if they represent an important phase of planation during a long period of preglacial stability . |
| 48 | I have been through a long period of psychotherapy dealing with this abuse and continue to find internal examinations traumatic . |
| 49 | I went through a long period of thinking of having him adopted . |
| 50 | In general , the mountain areas of the Auvergne experience a much colder winter climate with a long period of Permanent snow . |
| 51 | ‘ … and the pathetic thing was that he thought he had just recovered from a long period of madness . ’ |
| 52 | These measures had resulted from a long period of maturation and fitted into Morrison 's 1944 vision of a ‘ legislative programme of social reconstruction ’ after the war had ended . |
| 53 | He had sought and received asylum in the Senegalese embassy in Conakry only a month after his return home from a long period of exile [ see p. 38181 ] . |
| 54 | By the last decade of Henry VIlI 's reign , if not before , England was beginning to recover from a long period of population decline . |
| 55 | The best businesses over a long period of time have been the ones with a single thrust . |
| 56 | Thus , over a long period of time , stone , glass and metals acquire a distinctive patina which the faker must try and imitate . |
| 57 | Also the junction between the uncorroded metal and the applied patina is very sharp , whereas a patina which has developed over a long period of time will have eaten into the metal in a very irregular and quite characteristic manner that is very difficult to imitate . |
| 58 | Your own , personalized weight control programme has not been a sudden thing but has evolved over a long period of time . |
| 59 | However , over a long period of time and association , horses and ponies can alter their thought patterns and learn to think more like each other , and to become more empathic . |
| 60 | But cases of die links between different places or over a long period of time are unusual . |