Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] a longer period " in BNC.
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| 1 | By having an attack of the infectious disease the body is stimulated to produce appropriate antibodies not only to assist recovery but also to provide a sufficient quantity to remain in the blood for a longer period , sometimes throughout life , for example after an attack of rubella |
| 2 | Pre-emptive local anaesthetic field block for inguinal herniorrhaphy resulted in reduced pain scores and a delay in requests for analgesia during the six hours studied by Ejlersen et al , but similar work detected no pre-emptive effect over a longer period . |
| 3 | Light : Requires plenty of bright light over a longer period than is required by most other plants . |
| 4 | Light : Requires bright light over a longer period than is required for most aquarium plants . |
| 5 | Light : Needs very good light over a longer period than is used for other water plants Water temperature : 68°–78°F . |
| 6 | However , many clients were supported by the scheme , and it is only through comparison with the control sample that one can determine whether or not the project was successful in sustaining them at home for a longer period of time than would have been the case without it . |
| 7 | Other families need help over a longer period , although the group is careful not to overlap with the work of professional staff from the social services . |
| 8 | The directors are accordingly not obliged to maximise current profits in order to satisfy short-term demands for dividends at the expense of a growth in profitability over a longer period . |
| 9 | Can you manage to stick to a weight-loss programme when you have defined a time period , i.e. the three weeks until your holiday , or if you have to fit into certain clothes for a special occasion which is soon to be upon you , and do you generally find it difficult to stick to a diet for a longer period |
| 10 | Spruce needles certainly take longer to decay than some other leaves , releasing humic acid over a longer period but at a slower rate , but being a long standing constituent of the northern latitudes coniferous belt , spruce ( Picea ) is quite compatible with lakes well stocked with fish . |
| 11 | The teacher 's relation with a child is much more intense and long-lasting than for a teacher of a normal child , since they will be together in close contact during a longer period of growth . |
| 12 | While life expectancy has extended , it appears to have been at the price of a longer period and a greater proportion of life being spent in chronic sickness . |
| 13 | During the two phases of Pilot schemes , which were essentially experimental , detailed policy could only be formulated for the short term but , as the new system is becoming established , this letter is able to state policy for a longer period . |
| 14 | However , if it were possible to keep careful watch over a longer period , you would discover two interesting things . |
| 15 | It means you have to keep club staff there for a lot longer , till about 6.30 , and that people spend their money over a longer period of time . |
| 16 | This can be less stressful for the dog , because its stomach will probably contain food for a longer period . |
| 17 | The results are uneven and one wonders what the result would have been if Mr Smith had examined all the companies covered by the original report for a longer period . |
| 18 | Should we dump everything down onto a long-term storage medium and select at the end of a longer period of time with the benefit of historical hindsight , say after 25 years ? |
| 19 | A timetable for an orderly sale with a longer period for developing relationships with purchasers than may be necessary in a rushed sale is included in Section 1102.5 . |
| 20 | The changes that occurred in the City 's international role over the 1960s and '70s are explained and discussed in J. Coakley and L. Harris , The City of Capital ( Oxford , Basil Blackwell ; 1983 ) ; the international role of the City over a longer period is discussed in depth in L. Harris , T. Evans , J. Coakley and M. Croasdale , New Directions in the Financial System ( London , Croom Helm ; 1988 ) . |
| 21 | Opponents of the resort to force , and others who regarded it as premature , maintained that the effectiveness of sanctions required their application over a longer period ( this being broadly the position adopted in early January , i.e. before the military conflict began , by the opposition Labour Party in the UK ) . |
| 22 | I think the question remains or that my doubts remain that there will be a level of there will that one can assume a level of commitments which would be it would be sensible to try and draw back from or phase over a longer period of time . |
| 23 | Moreover , since the use of thrombolytic agents and aspirin in patients with myocardial infarction improves short and long term survival we would expect to have to give any additional treatment for a longer period to a larger number of patients to show a further reduction in mortality . |
| 24 | Nor did she see coherence over a longer period partly because her own world was a social one dominated by friends , clothes , music and beckoning adulthood . |
| 25 | The team at Oxford 's cancer fund are now planning longer term research with other organisations world-wide to assess the effects of tamoxifen over a longer period of time to see if it can continue saving lives . |
| 26 | I the defendant Doctor David against a decision of the taxing master , taxing master of right , er given on the thirteenth of August nineteen ninety three , whereby the taxing master disallowed interest on plaintiff 's bill of the cost in the action for a period from the first of November nineteen ninety one to the twenty seventh of May nineteen ninety three , the defendant in his notice of appeal , claims that the taxing master should have disallowed interest for a longer period , in addition to the period he actually al disallowed int namely there should be additional disallowance for the period from the twenty forth of April nineteen ninety one to the thirty first of October nineteen ninety one or for such other periods as the court deems just . |
| 27 | Complex carbohydrates on the other hand , e.g. pasta , release energy over a longer period of time . |