Example sentences of "too [adv] [art] period " in BNC.

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1 The danger for the Government is that it may all come just a bit too late to expunge the memories of our current travails and of too long a period of neglect for the supply-side of the economy to respond .
2 Hahnemann felt that the ‘ single dose and wait ’ philosophy left too long a period of inaction and the speed of cure often too slow as the practitioner could do nothing but wait for the remedy to complete its ' curative curve .
3 Exposing the board for too long a period will rarely cause any damage , but troublesome problems can be caused by underexposure , when the UV sensitive coating will not have thoroughly reacted to the UV light .
4 We were in danger of creating a system which would involve testing over far too long a period of time .
5 I shared command of the big " V " with two other skippers , Doug Thompson and Denis Mawe , as H.Q. frowned on any policy that kept an officer away from his home port and normal customs duties for too long a period .
6 It is possible to start with 1.2A after 1.1Z , but this is symptomatic of too long a period between approvals .
7 Too many options within a single program tempt the teacher to try and use all of them in too short a period .
8 Despite the support of parents , of fellow teachers , of priests and even of two hon. Members , one from each side of the House , that teacher was refused a hearing before the school governors and had too short a period of service to seek the support of an industrial tribunal .
9 We think he [ the architect ] has adopted perhaps too late a period for his model : and there is a little exaggeration in the design which we have no doubt will be amended in the future . ’
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