Example sentences of "to [noun] [prep] a long period " in BNC.

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1 The two main sets of circumstances to which the Act is normally applied relate first to mental disorder and secondly to self-neglect over a long period .
2 Young people , the unemployed and women returning to work after a long period at home will have to show extra ingenuity to extract evidence of their work skills and potential from their life history .
3 Fatigue fractures , by their very nature , are more prevalent in structures that have been subject to stress over a long period of time .
4 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 ] .
5 The majority of other types of skin cancer are the result of continued exposure to sunlight over a long period of time .
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