Example sentences of "over long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An optical fibre uses total internal reflection to carry a light beam over long distance and around corners . |
| 2 | After a hard day of gruelling silence over long distance we both mumble bleak consent to stop for the night . |
| 3 | The songs of the whales carry through the water , over long distances with astonishing clarity , and were heard clearly through the wooden hulls of the old whaling ships in calm weather , giving rise to the belief that the sounds were the songs of mermaids . |
| 4 | Their bodies are streamlined for maximum efficiency in moving through water , and they have evolved a highly sophisticated sonar system to communicate and receive information through water and over long distances . |
| 5 | A greater degree of regional self-sufficiency in many basic food-stuffs , especially milk and meat could be encouraged in order to avoid the mounting costs of transporting such commodities over long distances which is now common . |
| 6 | Wind also has a profound effect on plant growth in the Western Isles in that is usually salt-laden , particularly when it has come from the west or south-west , having passed over long distances of wave-tom ocean . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | The ability to communicate cheaply over long distances will reduce the need for workers to commute to offices . |
| 9 | Obviously this puts up the system cost over long distances . |
| 10 | The Safrane is hushed and comfortable over long distances . |
| 11 | Its organization was similar in that it was controlled by persons of relatively high social status , that ransoming was a major source of profit , and that the transporting of animals over long distances was usual when a payment was not forthcoming . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He puts it where he wants it , and over long distances as well . |
| 14 | Over long distances this adds up to thousands of pounds of pressure on your limbs and joints . |
| 15 | Bringing up supplies over long distances through dense woodland in King William 's War ( as the struggle of the 1690s known in England and Europe as the War of the League of Augsburg became known in America ) was so difficult that launching an attack was more a matter of logistics than of strategy . |
| 16 | Fighting went on in New France for another twelve months , but after the fall of Quebec this was more a matter of moving forces over long distances than of confronting threats that the French might retrieve their position . |
| 17 | Standardization comes about for functional reasons , and its effect is to make a language serviceable for communicating decontextualized information-bearing messages over long distances and periods of time . |
| 18 | While the actual canals , together with their locks , bridges and wharfs , have their own intrinsic interest , far more significant is the fact that they allowed the easy and cheap movement of bulk cargoes over long distances . |
| 19 | By vastly cheapening the carriage of heavy materials over long distances , the canals also brought about indirect changes in the landscape . |
| 20 | Many Braniel people owned cars and telephones , which they used as a means of maintaining important personal ties over long distances , and the capacity of these ties to influence their behaviour ( linguistic or otherwise ) is not clear . |
| 21 | Signalling by diffusion can work well for small organisms , but it is limited ; diffusion of chemical signals over long distances is slow and inefficient , as it can not be specifically targeted to ensure that the signal arrives only at the cell it was intended for . |
| 22 | In a touring boat we want long powerful strokes to go fast over long distances . |
| 23 | The transport of sulphates over long distances can lead to reductions in visibility over extensive areas and at locations distant from pollution sources . |
| 24 | Flight strong and buoyant over long distances , more wavering and almost tern-like at other times . |
| 25 | The increased demand for food to feed the growing populations of the great cities was met by speedy rail communication with the countryside , which allowed the transportation of perishable goods over long distances and promoted commercialization , specialization , and modernization in the agriculture of many countries . |
| 26 | If you need a modem to link into say Compuserve and pick up and collect messages this modem is ideal — if you are uploading and downloading big files over long distances you need a quicker modem . |
| 27 | If it is transported over long distances , it can be dangerous . |
| 28 | In the UK , for example , there is evidence that the local authority council house system has reduced mobility over long distances for those who seek housing in this sector ( Hughes and McCormick 1981 ) . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |