Example sentences of "[noun sg] over [art] longer period " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Light : Requires plenty of bright light over a longer period than is required by most other plants . |
| 3 | Light : Requires bright light over a longer period than is required for most aquarium plants . |
| 4 | Light : Needs very good light over a longer period than is used for other water plants Water temperature : 68°–78°F . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | However , if it were possible to keep careful watch over a longer period , you would discover two interesting things . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Complex carbohydrates on the other hand , e.g. pasta , release energy over a longer period of time . |