Example sentences of "a long period of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This is one that Alan has had for a long period of time , ’ Mr Cross said . |
| 2 | But the broad package of interventions and centralization over such a long period of time surely outstrips that carried out by any previous government . |
| 3 | The best businesses over a long period of time have been the ones with a single thrust . |
| 4 | The warrant boom of 1987–89 was the last phase of a long period of dramatic change for Japanese companies and their bankers . |
| 5 | Thus , over a long period of time , stone , glass and metals acquire a distinctive patina which the faker must try and imitate . |
| 6 | Also the junction between the uncorroded metal and the applied patina is very sharp , whereas a patina which has developed over a long period of time will have eaten into the metal in a very irregular and quite characteristic manner that is very difficult to imitate . |
| 7 | Your own , personalized weight control programme has not been a sudden thing but has evolved over a long period of time . |
| 8 | After a long period of deliberation , during which Craganour 's owner Charles Bower Ismay was seen to become ever more pale , the official announcement was given : the race went to Aboyeur . |
| 9 | However , over a long period of time and association , horses and ponies can alter their thought patterns and learn to think more like each other , and to become more empathic . |
| 10 | A die could survive over a long period of time . |
| 11 | But cases of die links between different places or over a long period of time are unusual . |
| 12 | To give judgment upon these presentments , the ancient machinery of the Forest Eyre was once more set in motion after a long period of general disuse . |
| 13 | There are few other industries in which , over a long period of time , revenues have covered less than half of costs . |
| 14 | What distinguishes the companies still with us after a long period of recession is that they are lucky — they do not seem to have been hit by the unexpected . |
| 15 | King Edward VII and his Consort , Alexandra , were able to influence international events , particularly in Europe , which continued to be the predominant continent and Britain looked forward to a long period of peaceful influence . |
| 16 | However , at Cosmeston the archaeologist has the opportunity to excavate a large portion of the settlement over a long period of time and to use the results to shed light on sites where the excavators have not been so fortunate . |
| 17 | There then followed a long period of muddle and confusion not helped by the fact that no one had a recent photograph of Blake and that it was a Saturday evening . |
| 18 | But many parents would clearly be unable to make this type of commitment and there will be mentally handicapped people , just as there are many ordinary people , who find themselves without an occupation for a long period of their lives . |
| 19 | The accumulation of data over a long period of time is a situation that lends itself well to the use of a microcomputer . |
| 20 | Consequently many Greek writers of the fifth century and later realized that their own society was the end-product of a long period of advance . |
| 21 | In general , the mountain areas of the Auvergne experience a much colder winter climate with a long period of Permanent snow . |
| 22 | ‘ … and the pathetic thing was that he thought he had just recovered from a long period of madness . ’ |
| 23 | From 1981 to 1985 the figure had fallen to about 0.33 per cent per annum , and London actually gained population in 1984 , thus reversing a long period of decline . |
| 24 | All your behaviour , with the exception of those reflexes that were built into the system , has been acquired over a long period of ad hoc learning . |
| 25 | As in most parts of Britain the Hercynian movements at the end of the Carboniferous were accompanied and followed by a long period of erosion . |
| 26 | What was less obvious was the effect on the system as a whole , which had evolved over a long period of time influenced by a variety of political and economical pressures , and not necessarily in a methodical manner . |
| 27 | Perhaps the attitude developed during a long period of established practice and little change . |
| 28 | The classic text by Louis Goodman and Alfred Gilman ( Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics ) states that strychnine has no therapeutic value whatsoever despite ‘ a long period of unwarranted popularity ’ . |
| 29 | In fact the opposite seems to have occurred because Grevy 's zebra is in other ways a very different animal from the common zebra and it appears that in their stripes the two species have converged rather than diverged , over a long period of time . |
| 30 | The styles of learning in Koranic schools and catechist classes have predictable effects on the way children learn in school , but the missionary tradition in education is responsible for so much else besides , ( over a long period of the history of formal education the great majority of schools were missionary schools ) . |