Example sentences of "[adj] long period [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Then , there is another long period before this new technology appears in the market-place in products , processes , or services . |
2 | Scientists are concerned that a special event , such as a sunspot or supernova might occur during this long period of communications blackout . |
3 | Nearly four years have passed since The Satanic Verses was declared blasphemous by the late Ayatollah Khomeini , and during this long period of internal exile there must have been times when Rushdie , experiencing deep changes and wrenches in the soul , has wondered at the prescience of those words . |
4 | More sophisticated weapons like throwing sticks and bows and arrows came only after a further long period of brain development . |
5 | It was the second longest period of party power , uninterrupted by either an election or a change of leadership , of this century . |
6 | This was typical of the suety coverage of the War Before the War , that long period of waiting before the January 15 deadline . |
7 | And only two amazing misses , one of those candidly coming er just before scored the second Notts goal , with a headed chance headed wide when er had come and missed it , and when on forty four minutes on the watch but not a minute before the end of half time if you get the meaning because we had that long period of extra time , er missed the chance completely , he 'd made the er Pisa goal brilliantly with a cross from the right hand side , deep cross , pulled back brilliantly , but left with a chance , the number eleven in front of the post , well what was he doing ? again had come and again he 'd missed it and left with an open goal was wide of the target . |
8 | SIR — I like to recall a wry comment on the television programme That Was The Week That Was towards the end of the Tories ' last long period in office during the early Sixties : ‘ There 's only one thing that will make the Conservatives popular again — and that is the next Labour government ! ’ |