Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] over [art] long [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 They went on over a long period and affected many children who had been entrusted to the defendants for care and help .
3 The arrival of Islam and the Arabic language was to mark another of the great turning points in the history of Egypt , and their absorption by Egyptian society went on over a long period , being generally a peaceful and incremental process .
4 In some programs files have to be inverted overnight and this requires the microcomputer to be switched on over a long period of time .
5 Had this apparently contradictory programme been worked out over a long period , it might have seemed more logical .
6 Managers are naturally biased towards projects showing a quick return , if they feel there is unlikely to be ex post settling up over the longer term .
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