Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] a long [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even so , we are taking the first steps in a long journey towards an understanding of the body clock and the way it adjusts to our environment . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It 's old ladies who show all the signs of a long life on subsistence , though they would n't necessarily see themselves as having been poor , because their husbands were n't necessarily poor . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The Teleuts , however , had been sovereign in their own domains for a long period before the Russians arrived on the scene . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In these respects , there has been a general and continuing decline in prison conditions over a long period of time ( King and McDermott , 1999 ) . |
| 11 | My own efforts over a long period of time , plus correspondence and telephone calls to various bodies have met with no success . |
| 12 | My own efforts over a long period of time , plus correspondence and telephone calls to various bodies have met with no success . |
| 13 | The best businesses over a long period of time have been the ones with a single thrust . |
| 14 | This may apply to a particular period or it may be concerned with changes over a long period of time . |
| 15 | Simulation has been used to predict population changes over a long period of time and for charting space-satellite trajectories . |
| 16 | But among those with special achievements to their credit were the branches at Knebworth ( Hertfordshire ) , Kelvedon , Manningtree and Wivenhoe ( Essex ) , all of which published village histories during 1953–54 ; at Hemel Hempstead which duplicated and sold Welfare and the State , the log-book of weekly discussions in a Long Terminal on ‘ Economic and Social Problems ’ held in 1956–57 ; at Linton ( Cambridgeshire ) which followed up a music course by helping to launch the Linton Music Festival in July 1957 , destined to become an annual event ; and at Colchester where a Tutorial on archaeology from 1955 to 1958 led to the formation of the Colchester Archaeological Group . |
| 17 | Once again we 've supplied the sails for a long list of medal winners . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Lawrence Stone , for instance , in his massive book , The Family , Sex and Marriage , speaks in terms of a long development towards modern sexual ‘ permissiveness ’ from the eighteenth century . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The fact that hippies were so violently apolitical inspired a lot of my polemics for a long time on Oz . |
| 24 | Surgeons , however , have used metallic implants such as clips and automatic sutures for a long time without any such complication reported . |
| 25 | People vary in their ability to revert to being outgoing , social creatures after a long time of semi-confinement to the house . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The characteristic cottage was brick-built on two storeys with a long window on the upper floor where the wooden frame stood to give the operator maximum light . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 ) . |
| 30 | She could just make out , beyond her own reflection , the night-shapes of a long garden with a flood-wall and a towpath at its end . |