Example sentences of "[prep] long period of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frequent leave was recommended ‘ in order to regain sanity of outlook after long periods of loneliness ’ , and it was later added that : ‘ Intellectual geniuses are not required , nor anyone with ‘ nerves ’ or who is likely to become ‘ Masai-astic ’ … i.e. regard themselves as specialists ' . |
| 2 | A number of borough councils agreed to appoint workers with specific lesbian and gay responsibilities and , after long periods of consultation , Camden and Haringey agreed to set up their own lesbian and gay units . |
| 3 | All they ever saw of their guide was a faint distant tail-light , and then only rarely , at irregular moments after long periods of doubt when it seemed that they had lost the scent , made the wrong decision at some unmarked junction up in the stormy darkness . |
| 4 | Scotland was still , by contemporary standards , an unusually localized country , in which the government impinged less ; and it had two centuries of experience of long periods of royal minorities in which government and political life had to be kept going without the guiding hand of a monarch . |
| 5 | Gold appears either in its parent rock or in placer deposits in which the products of long periods of erosion are concentrated in the alluvium of existing river systems or buried under later sedimentary or igneous rocks . |
| 6 | St'lyan had an organ which acted like a supercharger , so that they were capable of long periods of exertion , and like the Yek they were able to endure remarkable extremes of heat and cold . |
| 7 | In other words , the history of any one part of the earth , like the life of a soldier , consists of long periods of boredom and short periods of terror . |
| 8 | This enables underwater operation for long periods of time . |
| 9 | Can you share the same confines , for long periods of time , and where does your tolerance level lie ? |
| 10 | Depending on the nature of the defect , electrons may remain trapped for long periods of time ; such a trap would be referred to as ‘ deep ’ . |
| 11 | They are full of fun and not a breed that you can leave for long periods of time , as they are so human orientated . |
| 12 | Her parents lived in another part of the country and her husband was in the army and away for long periods of time . |
| 13 | In addition to the mobility required of them as deputies in battle for the king , they were also kept in attendance at their father 's court at Aachen for long periods of time . |
| 14 | Contact with other nations ( Egypt in the case of Herodotus ) led to a greater awareness of the past , because of the evidence for long periods of time presented , for example , by the pyramids . |
| 15 | And it does n't tie up your money for long periods of time . |
| 16 | The most obvious clue to its presence is its movement , so in order for its camouflage to work it must be prepared to remain very still for long periods of time , or at least to alter its position very slowly and gently . |
| 17 | There is plenty of ‘ scriptural ’ evidence that the viciousness of evolutionary dominance was , for long periods of history , and among many of the peoples of the earth , in no wise eschewed . |
| 18 | The acid fragrance upsets their delicate nasal passages and they avoid anything smeared in it for long periods of time . |
| 19 | A biomaterial may also have to function for long periods of time in the body . |
| 20 | Stationary exercise bikes are no better , with the need for long periods of hamster-like moronic trundling to get any real benefits from them . |
| 21 | By the following weekend , Ned had begun to lose interest in his lover and within two weeks , much to her distress , he began leaving her alone for long periods of time while he chased after a very attractive Border Collie who had just moved into a neighbouring street . |
| 22 | As far as chartered accountant trainees are concerned , Mr Jones argues , ‘ you have all the aggravation of training them on high salaries and the disruption to a small office with their going off for long periods of study leave , and at the end you do n't keep them . |
| 23 | This type of palette is designed to keep acrylics workable for long periods of time , which eliminates the worry of them drying too quickly . |
| 24 | Even the most monotonous work will have occupied the mind and body for long periods of the day . |
| 25 | Older people who have fewer than eight main meals each week , or who go for long periods of the day without food , are considered to be especially at risk . |
| 26 | And both have been designed to enable you to hold them for long periods of time . |
| 27 | Nothing is worse than walking in wet trousers for long periods of time , so the overtrousers you select should give as good a service as your jacket . |
| 28 | Ear defenders may be advisable for long periods of work , but we found the low exhaust tone quieter than that on average-sized petrol mowers . |
| 29 | By plotting the areal distribution of marine strata and making reasonable inferences from facies distributions about the location of former shorelines , it has been established that for long periods of time in the Phanerozoic , especially in the early Palaeozoic and late Cretaceous , the continents have been inundated by up to two thirds of the present area by epicontinental seas . |
| 30 | A fast processor helps , but it is n't the secret of great file server performance — for long periods of time , a file server 's processor will be idle , waiting for the hard disk to do its work . |