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

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1 Over the long term continuity is more apparent than discontinuity .
2 Over the long term , if Britain saved more it could grow faster .
3 The Government 's principal task in the months to come will be to restore the right mix of monetary and fiscal policy — now badly out of balance — so that interest rates have a better chance of coming down , and staying down over the long run .
4 Eventually they identified a shortlist of about twenty areas where the rock formations were considered suitably stable and dry to keep the nuclear waste containers intact over the long timescales envisaged .
5 Find two ideas that we could develop over the long term .
6 It is to be hoped that some of the numerous shales in the Devonian and Carboniferous sections may prove to have been sufficiently ductile to restrain escape over the long timespan involved , despite the degree of deformation to which they have been subjected .
7 Again , this is information which is useful to you over the long term .
8 Over the long term there has been an ‘ age-migration ’ of the accident statistics , whereby the number of under-15s killed per annum has fallen by 61 per cent from 1927–82 compared to an 80 per cent increase for the 15–24 year old group .
9 All the inverts that you are considering are suitable over the long term , but do steer clear of hard corals .
10 I think that I am probably a bit sharper in the burst than over the long distance but during the two ‘ B ’ games I felt really sharp and I have been working on my speed and strength with the SRU fitness specialist , David McLean ’ .
11 Over the long term cattle theft was dependent on the position of cattle , the major form of mobile wealth in a rice-based economy .
12 Mr Barfield also suggested that boardroom pay should be tied to shareholder value creation , which would focus management on developing value over the long term and act as ‘ an antidote to short-termism ’ .
13 Nevertheless , Bob Smith kept edging her towards Malta and at first light they saw the island over the long swells following the storm .
14 Again , this is information which is useful to you over the long term .
15 The effects of geomagnetic and solar activity over the long term are important factors in planning satellite missions .
16 Over the long centuries a series of massive offensives rolled them back through the Shadowlands and eventually culminated in the storming of Anlec .
17 This second year of decline followed eight years of modest growth ; but over the long term independent schools have been losing market share .
18 Over the long term equities generate much higher returns than bonds , and allow investors to spread risk by diversifying their assets .
19 In other words , if fewer teeth were filled to begin with , and more worn fillings were repaired , rather than replaced , their owners would have less need for crowns , dentures , root-canal therapy and dental implants over the long haul .
20 We spent the first day getting over the long flight ( though with only three hours time difference there was no appreciable jet-lag ) and having a look round the town .
21 Mutual support in troubled times then , is seen as a reciprocal reward for cooperation over the long term .
22 Employers also try to discourage the mobility of their highly skilled labour because they wish to retrieve the investment made in training over the long term , and they certainly would not want competing firms to poach labour that they have trained .
23 The question of international respect for the US was clearly at issue in the Iran hostage crisis , and over the long term this matter had a relentlessly negative effect on Carter 's chances of re-election .
24 The arts world has almost grown accustomed to the hand-to-mouth condition in which it is kept , but what it has not become resigned to over the long period of Tory rule is the positive hostility to its aims and values .
25 Published by the Menil Foundation with Mercator Fonds and Thames & Hudson ( £45 ) , it is aimed at a wider readership , but it will be the essential essay for all students keen to learn how a great scholar 's opinions have been honed over the long years spent in the consideration of Magritte 's art .
26 The graph in Figure 11.1 is useful because it illustrates the relationship between the real money stock and real national income over the long term , ( more than 100 years ) , which is equivalent to comparing the actual money stock with nominal national income .
27 Over the long term we can detect three broad tendencies : the conservative , authoritarian often expressed in the actions of social morality campaigns ; the liberal often in the vanguard of reforming activity ; and the radical , libertarian ; the first asserting the importance of absolute moral standards ; the second by and large seeking relaxation within a traditional framework of family values ; and the third advocating a transformation of values .
28 imply a steady state system or over a long term and if over the long term the rate of addition of material to the sea is equalled by the rate of removal .
29 Over the long historical period since the Industrial Revolution , the focus of industrial development has shifted a number of times .
30 It is the one approach that can maintain and improve America 's competitive performance — and America 's standard of living — over the long haul .
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