Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] a long [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Butler and Stokes argue that the main source of new electoral strength for Labour in 1945 was the mobilisation of manual workers who had grown up in homes without a long tradition of participation in electoral politics . |
| 2 | One way to reduce mobility is to offer promises of long-term employment , with the prospect of wage increases rising by promotion steps on a long ladder of continuous employment . |
| 3 | Nonetheless , he condemned that same deluded world for its previous exclusion of Spain from the European Recovery Programme , thereby exacerbating the effects of a long period of exceptionally low rainfall . |
| 4 | At the very moment when Hurd was preparing to unveil the fruits of a long period of gestation in the form of a White Paper on criminal justice , Lawson resigned as Chancellor . |
| 5 | Although mineral rights are generally held by the surface landowner , they may have been retained by a previous landowner when the surface freehold was sold , particularly in areas with a long history of mining such as South-west England . |
| 6 | Meanwhile , as discussed in section 5.2.1 , the eurobond market 's development in London can be attributed to prior development of the eurocurrency market , London 's overall infrastructure as a financial centre , the innovative merchant banks with a long tradition of intermediating financial flows , and the comparatively relaxed regulatory and fiscal regime . |
| 7 | In these respects , there has been a general and continuing decline in prison conditions over a long period of time ( King and McDermott , 1999 ) . |
| 8 | My own efforts over a long period of time , plus correspondence and telephone calls to various bodies have met with no success . |
| 9 | My own efforts over a long period of time , plus correspondence and telephone calls to various bodies have met with no success . |
| 10 | The best businesses over a long period of time have been the ones with a single thrust . |
| 11 | This may apply to a particular period or it may be concerned with changes over a long period of time . |
| 12 | Simulation has been used to predict population changes over a long period of time and for charting space-satellite trajectories . |
| 13 | Once again we 've supplied the sails for a long list of medal winners . |
| 14 | In this test a load is applied to the two ends of a long bar of uniform cross-section and either the displacement of the ends or that of two fiducial marks on the surface of the bar observed as a function of the applied load . |
| 15 | The observation that despite increased stool frequency , stool weight was not greater in the patients is likely to reflect dietary changes , which inevitably occur in patients with a long history of diarrhoea . |
| 16 | Patients with a long duration of Crohn 's disease and who had received specific treatment ( steroids or surgery ) in the past , showed a similar significant ( p<0.05 ) response to elemental diet , DAI decreasing from 6.3 ( 1.4 ) to 2.2 ( 0.8 ) , as newly diagnosed patients , 3.0 ( 0.6 ) to 1.2 ( 0.7 ) . |
| 17 | The problem of consistency of measurement techniques over a long period of time will have to be faced and may not have a satisfactory solution . |
| 18 | People vary in their ability to revert to being outgoing , social creatures after a long time of semi-confinement to the house . |
| 19 | They behaved like brave soldiers because they had inherited the genes of a long line of ancestral queens whose lives , and whose genes , had been saved by soldiers as brave as themselves . |
| 20 | Well unfortunately er it was the practice of shipyards for a long number of years , er to have maybe two or three squads of riveters that were kept in a yard on a sort of permanent basis , but you would invariably find that most of the squads would be sacked when the boat was launched , and taken back on again as they were needed . |
| 21 | It then lends the money to house purchasers for a long period of time by granting mortgages ( typically these are paid back over 20 to 30 years ) . |
| 22 | Her favourite scene was the sequence of Susan , partially concussed , menacing Ian with the points of a long pair of scissors , threatening to stab him until she gives in and vents her rage instead on the mattress of her bed . |
| 23 | New reproductive technologies — in vitro fertilisation ( IVF , the ’ test-tube baby ’ procedures ) , human embryo research , gene analysis of embryos , etc — are recent examples in a long line of high-tech medical interventions into women 's fertility . |
| 24 | If we examine the RNAs in a long succession of test-tubes , we see what can only be called evolutionary change . |
| 25 | The Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh also has had a long involvement with the cultivation and development of plants with medicinal properties and we have our own Scottish traditions of herbal cures for a long list of ailments . |