Example sentences of "over a [adv] longer period " in BNC.
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| 1 | In particular , the transition to democracy has seen a condensed and accelerated process of institutionalization of industrial relations , and of accompanying political exchange between the labour movement , employers and the state that would normally only be observable over a far longer period . |
| 2 | In RENFE since 1976 and in BR over a far longer period , a wide range of agreements have been reached through the machinery , giving the unions influence over the determination of virtually all aspects of conditions of employment and work organization . |
| 3 | ( Monday to Friday ) , giving a taste of the kind of stamina that will ultimately be required over a much longer period . |
| 4 | With press media , it is possible to spread the same money over a much longer period , especially if monthly magazines are used , since monthlies accumulate their readership of as many as 10 or 11 readers per copy over quite a long period . |
| 5 | This of course was not the main part of the work , but a pilot study used to test and refine some hypotheses about the wider sociolinguistic situation , which was then investigated more fully over a much longer period of time . |
| 6 | In so doing the newcomers have contributed to the sense of urban encroachment on rural political affairs among farmers and landowners which goes back over a much longer period , and which has been associated with changes in the institutions of political control in the countryside : the gradual decline in the personalized and autocratic power of the locally resident squirearchy and the transfer of public administration to a more formal and impersonal framework of local government since local politics were first placed on a democratic footing in 1888 . |
| 7 | The circular changed and allowed that joint finance money to be paid over a much longer period and virtually in perpetuity . |
| 8 | These were ‘ asymmetrical cyclical troughs ’ because recovery of output was spread over a much longer period than its initial loss , and because many factories closed for good in the second recession . |
| 9 | When the additional money is spent on training nurses , it is important that every effort be made to retain their services over a much longer period , which may involve making the terms and conditions more flexible for women returning to work . |
| 10 | I would love to talk to you over a much longer period , but I 'm afraid that 's all that we have time for today . |
| 11 | But you know we have to look beyond the first year or two , we have to look at what 's going to happen to that school over a much longer period of time , and quite frankly erm I would feel safer with erm what was called the big brother of the Local Authority . |