Example sentences of "[adj] [art] long period " in BNC.

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1 Inevitably , over such a long period , I became less institutionalized , more able to function as an individual in relation to belief and action and not merely accept the organization 's definition of things ; and this is a profoundly un-police like state of affairs !
2 But the broad package of interventions and centralization over such a long period of time surely outstrips that carried out by any previous government .
3 Added to his faithful representation was his own flavour of the area which no one else has been able to maintain over such a long period .
4 They talk about it as if that 's such a long period , and yet it seems like yesterday when my last one came out , but you do n't realise it 's that long ; you do n't sit round watching the calendar .
5 Even the most saintly of people would drift towards complacency and arrogance after such a long period .
6 If it seems odd to devote a chapter to one book , however important and significant , it must be appreciated that numerically it is by far the most commonly found book and one which has been published over such a long period that the collector will see it more frequently than any other .
7 It is not clear why this species has such a long period of amplexus ; it is not an explosive breeder .
8 If we relate this to the changes in the Labrador Sea we see ( Fig. 2 a ) that the only time there has been such a long period with little or no change in salinity , followed by a sudden marked freshening , was the period leading up to the renewal in 1972 .
9 As the ITVA 's rules on comparative whiteness claims in detergent ads have tightened , the ( by now ) several Persil products have not always been able to use this theme , but its development over such a long period was an astonishing piece of consistency by client management and virtuosity by the agency .
10 Er , you have a sexualization of such a long period , Wilson , er , did n't seem to have , sort of , being recorded to his sexual fantasies of that nature .
11 Others in the government were opposed to such a long period of withdrawal , favouring instead two to six years .
12 The absence of a member of staff for such a long period of time has , expectedly , resulted in some ‘ slippage ’ in the area of curriculum development .
13 No one could believe this had happened to us at Lyneham especially after such a long period of accident-free flying
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