Example sentences of "[adv] over long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Friedman 's views are based essentially on the quantity theory relationship and depend crucially on statistical evidence which purports to show that velocity is relatively stable and predictable especially over long time periods . |
| 2 | These are merely two of many illustrations of the dangers of travel by sea , even though this was often easier , especially over long distances , than movement by land . |
| 3 | By contrast , the norm for curriculum change is for it to occur piecemeal and gradually over long periods . |
| 4 | He believed that the surface of the earth changed gradually over long periods of time , and saw that such changes would have an effect not only upon the physical environment to which living things were exposed , but upon the possibility of migration to new locations . |
| 5 | The ability to communicate cheaply over long distances will reduce the need for workers to commute to offices . |
| 6 | Indeed , talk to any manager and he or she already has common-sense theories of motivation , often built up over long periods of observing people at work . |
| 7 | ABOVE Experiments can be done to find out how ditches silt up over long periods of time , how earthworks erode , and how finds move . |
| 8 | After all , the transportation of such huge and heavy slabs of rock , often over long distances , must have required an incredible investment of effort on the part of any society possessing only rudimentary technology . |
| 9 | Thus even bottom-dwelling molluscs can be dispersed widely over long distances , and are quick to colonize vacant sites that appear in the ocean ( new volcanic islands like Surtsey , for example ) . |
| 10 | In a touring boat we want long powerful strokes to go fast over long distances . |
| 11 | Big business or some trade unions , for example , seem to have exercised power consistently over long periods of time . |
| 12 | Discourse is more like a moving film , revealing itself in time — sometimes over long periods . |
| 13 | He says research has shown that many people would be incapable of driving safely over long distances in the early afternoon even after one drink . |