Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] a much long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The requirement for higher concentrations to disrupt pancreatic lysosomes may reflect the fact that , in an in vitro system , the period of incubation of isolated lysosomes with cholesteryl ester is necessarily limited ( 30 minutes in our study ) whereas in the previous in vivo study , lysosomes were exposed to increased levels of cholesteryl esters for a much longer period ( up to four weeks ) . |
| 2 | Auden was part of a much longer game : part of a shape which , as yet , existed in his head alone . |
| 3 | In this situation the circulation was altered so that a cold polar vortex remained until the end of the simulation , thereby maintaining the presence of PSCs for a much longer period . |
| 4 | The clinical presentation of those affected and the course of the disease were characteristic of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease ; the other inherited prion diseases so far described generally present as an illness similar to Gerstmann-Sträussler syndrome with a much longer duration or as atypical dementia . |
| 5 | With press media , it is possible to spread the same money over a much longer period , especially if monthly magazines are used , since monthlies accumulate their readership of as many as 10 or 11 readers per copy over quite a long period . |
| 6 | Moreover , an older lady should need a companion for a much longer period than a girl on the catch for a husband . |
| 7 | Normally you will want to use full side-slip for a few seconds rather than a small amount of slip for a much longer time . |
| 8 | This must have been a most amazing sight , coming as it did as the climax of a much longer event staged beforehand outside Wanstead House itself . |
| 9 | Whatever our personal views on politics , morals and society are , we have responsibilities not simply to the here and now but to society over a much longer term . |
| 10 | The net effect of these changes is , of course , that women are relatively free of child-rearing for a much longer period of their active lives and are , therefore , more likely to seek paid employment . |
| 11 | The first record of the term ‘ long-firm fraud ’ which Levi uncovers was in a journal of 1869 , while the obtaining of goods under the false pretence that one had an honest and solvent business is an activity with a much longer history . |
| 12 | These new strains have been bred to combine the varied colours , forms and scents of old roses with a much longer season of flowers . |
| 13 | To do this , of course , you have to put the bird on a much longer line , something falconers call a ‘ creance ’ . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | When the additional money is spent on training nurses , it is important that every effort be made to retain their services over a much longer period , which may involve making the terms and conditions more flexible for women returning to work . |
| 16 | But perhaps the main shift in all professional fields is the gradual introduction of recurrent , continuing education which implies that a professional degree ( or even chartered and qualified status ) is only the initial stage in a much longer process . |