Example sentences of "[noun] over [art] long period [prep] " in BNC.

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31 The results they obtained suggested a close relationship between changes in the United States ' money supply and changes in money national income over a long period of time .
32 However , at Cosmeston the archaeologist has the opportunity to excavate a large portion of the settlement over a long period of time and to use the results to shed light on sites where the excavators have not been so fortunate .
33 The length of time it has been operation will determine how much money she gets back , but it is unlikely to have made much of a profit , because endowments are designed to make money over a long period of time .
34 It means you have to keep club staff there for a lot longer , till about 6.30 , and that people spend their money over a longer period of time .
35 the nature of the caring relationship is likely to be based on love and mutual support over a long period of time .
36 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 .
37 He went on ‘ improving ’ this poem over a long period of years so that the text usually printed shows many alterations from the original .
38 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 .
39 I think the question remains or that my doubts remain that there will be a level of there will that one can assume a level of commitments which would be it would be sensible to try and draw back from or phase over a longer period of time .
40 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 .
41 We therefore laid our plans and moved out in good order over a long period of time .
42 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 .
43 The majority of other types of skin cancer are the result of continued exposure to sunlight over a long period of time .
44 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 .
45 The team at Oxford 's cancer fund are now planning longer term research with other organisations world-wide to assess the effects of tamoxifen over a longer period of time to see if it can continue saving lives .
46 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 .
47 Complex carbohydrates on the other hand , e.g. pasta , release energy over a longer period of time .
48 One of the tasks of a sponsor of such an event is to maximise on its appeal over a long period of time .
49 Involvement with the same client over a long period of time , the paper says , could result in a lack of objectivity and ‘ detraction from the regular and robust consideration ’ of issues associated with the audit .
50 To my knowledge , no class can hold State power over a long period without at the same time exercising its hegemony over and in the State Ideological Apparatuses .
51 Accordingly , on 12 June 1940 Lord Woolton , Minister of Food , despatched a memorandum to the Food Policy Committee of the War Cabinet in which he identified three groups in the population to whom food distribution should be improved : workers in factories ( ‘ if we are to obtain the maximum production over a long period of time from them ’ ) , people on low incomes and ‘ children of school age and under and nursing mothers whom , on grounds both of humanity and of racial preservation , it is essential we should protect against malnutrition ’ .
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