Example sentences of "long [noun sg] period [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under the clampdown all Palestinians , including 50,000 day workers employed in Israel , had been prevented from leaving the Strip for 14 days , the longest quarantine period since the 40-day closure of the Israeli-occupied territories during the Gulf war in early 1991 . |
| 2 | This drop is largely irrelevant because the long incubation period of 10 years or more between HIV-1 infection and AIDS onset results in a complex relation between the time of HIV-1 infection diagnosis and AIDS incubation period . |
| 3 | The cost and long maturation period of forests has meant that most reafforestation programmes are financed and controlled by governments with compulsory land purchase , or long leasing arrangements with land owners . |
| 4 | and et all ( 362 , 355 & 359 ; 1993 showed that these organs ( among others ) are sites at which the virus multiplies during the often long latency period in AIDS , but more will have to be known of this process before it can be the basis of a routine assay . |
| 5 | Like domestic Guinea Pigs , the young are born well developed after a long gestation period of four months — covered in fur and with eyes open , they run around the mother soon after birth . |
| 6 | The First ( or rather the first he acknowledged , since there had been a previous Quartettsatz he had written at the age of 25 ) was completed in 1920 after a long gestation period of four years — partly explicable by its extreme complexity and his elaborately detailed indications on the playing of almost every note . |
| 7 | To get to the pay review body involved an interesting and long gestation period by Ministers . |
| 8 | The second would be at the City Airport , where BA might offer attractive low fares , sustainable over a long time period by cross-funding from their worldwide profitable operation . |
| 9 | If all else fails , remember there is a longer limitation period for non-personal injury losses and that that part of the claim can proceed in any event . |
| 10 | Suction could have been provided overnight only when clinically indicated and an assessment tool used to give the patient a longer rest period between interventions . |
| 11 | This may be bad news if you do not have sufficient continuous service to qualify for rights if only the statutory period is added , although you would have had sufficient service if the longer notice period to which you are entitled under your contract were added . |