Example sentences of "a [adv] [adj -er] period [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may turn out to be one or two meetings only or a much longer period of time . |
| 2 | This of course was not the main part of the work , but a pilot study used to test and refine some hypotheses about the wider sociolinguistic situation , which was then investigated more fully over a much longer period of time . |
| 3 | But you know we have to look beyond the first year or two , we have to look at what 's going to happen to that school over a much longer period of time , and quite frankly erm I would feel safer with erm what was called the big brother of the Local Authority . |
| 4 | The nationalities concerned are generally Lutheran ( Estonians and Latvians ) or Roman Catholic ( Lithuanians ) by religion , not Orthodox , and they have been under Soviet rule for a much shorter period of time than most other nationalities , since 1940 rather than the immediate post-revolutionary period ( when communist-led governments were briefly established in all three republics ) . |
| 5 | An operating lease lasts for a much shorter period of time than the economic life of the asset and the lessor retains the risks and rewards of ownership . |