Example sentences of "[noun sg] over a long period " in BNC.
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| 31 | The study will also take into account the effects of aging , which may contribute to a decline in knowledge retention over a long period . |
| 32 | In Britain these are in a state of flux although there has been much discussion about the role of the inspector over a long period of time . |
| 33 | Instead that sense has to be nurtured by more direct experience over a long period of time . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | Equally , it is not unknown for a partner gradually to lose interest in mundane administrative matters : often enough the problems that this can cause are exacerbated by his co-partners allowing him to escape his share of responsibility over a long period . |
| 37 | It was built in brick over a long period ; the east end dates from the ninth century and the west from the tenth and eleventh while the vaults are mainly twelfth century . |
| 38 | As with any technique , direct mail has basic principles which must be obeyed if the programme is to communicate and raise money over a long period : * It must be regular ( a minimum of eight times a year ) * It must be personal , relevant and informal * It must be good quality * It must ask for and offer something * It must appeal to emotion first and reason second |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | Experiment 2 — A Trial over a Long Period |
| 41 | the nature of the caring relationship is likely to be based on love and mutual support over a long period of time . |
| 42 | Gas supply agreements often provide for the supply of gas over a long period , sometimes for a decade or more . |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | Mrs Cochrane 's husband added : ‘ My wife had a depressive illness over a long period . |
| 46 | He went on ‘ improving ’ this poem over a long period of years so that the text usually printed shows many alterations from the original . |
| 47 | 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 . |
| 48 | Out of form over a long period , Lyle did not feel that he would be able to stand the pressure . |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | We therefore laid our plans and moved out in good order over a long period of time . |
| 51 | 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 . |
| 52 | The majority of other types of skin cancer are the result of continued exposure to sunlight over a long period of time . |
| 53 | Alison is an artist who has made an important contribution over a long period |
| 54 | 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 . |
| 55 | 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 . |
| 56 | Fred has been encouraging pilferage over a long period . |
| 57 | 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 . |
| 58 | 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 . |
| 59 | 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 . |
| 60 | 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 . |