Example sentences of "[adv] longer period " in BNC.

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1 ( Monday to Friday ) , giving a taste of the kind of stamina that will ultimately be required over a much longer period .
2 It may turn out to be one or two meetings only or a much longer period of time .
3 Five of the men arrested in the Rathcoole district were released within twenty-one days and two more after a much longer period , but without ‘ allegations ’ having been made to justify their detention .
4 Take the custom of mourning , for instance ; at the funeral itself , and traditionally for a much longer period , a woman who has lost a husband or close relative wears black , and can be thus almost anonymous in appearance .
5 In this situation the circulation was altered so that a cold polar vortex remained until the end of the simulation , thereby maintaining the presence of PSCs for a much longer period .
6 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 .
7 The net effect of these changes is , of course , that women are relatively free of child-rearing for a much longer period of their active lives and are , therefore , more likely to seek paid employment .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 The circular changed and allowed that joint finance money to be paid over a much longer period and virtually in perpetuity .
11 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 .
12 Moreover , an older lady should need a companion for a much longer period than a girl on the catch for a husband .
13 And when my father gives it a little thought he 'll realise it is now September and that my time off is likely to creep into next year , which will make a much longer period owing to me . ’
14 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 .
15 The requirement for higher concentrations to disrupt pancreatic lysosomes may reflect the fact that , in an in vitro system , the period of incubation of isolated lysosomes with cholesteryl ester is necessarily limited ( 30 minutes in our study ) whereas in the previous in vivo study , lysosomes were exposed to increased levels of cholesteryl esters for a much longer period ( up to four weeks ) .
16 The basic differences between them in respect of their value to architectural study is that Ostia was occupied and developed over a much longer period , from the fourth century B.C. to the third century A.D. , and that it was not a provincial city but the port of Rome and , as such , became more important , as is evidenced by its buildings .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 Obviously these policies are not for three months , three thousand miles , they are for a much longer period than that , and obviously if people do have problems then that 's what we 're here for .
20 Taking account again of the public concern about violent crime , in future I intend to exercise my discretion so that murderers of police or prison officers , terrorist murderers , sexual or sadistic murderers of children and murderers by firearm in the course of robbery can normally expect to serve at least 20 years in custody ; and there will be cases where the gravity of the offence requires a still longer period .
21 When he returned , after a slightly longer period than on the two previous occasions , Elisa had been persuaded to have a second cup of coffee .
22 They may be attached to a particular school for a single day or even part of a day , or for a substantially longer period .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 After I had been there one term , however , my father took one of his almost yearly visits to Africa , this time for a rather longer period of about four months .
26 Unlike Hodgkinson , Lynagh and Fox have sustained their consistency over an infinitely longer period .
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