Example sentences of "[noun] over [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | This can have a rather unsettling effect over a long period — the family man can not promise to take his children to the seaside or his wife out to dinner more than a week ahead without the chance that he might be in India , California or Scotland at the time he promised . |
| 2 | The accumulation of data over a long period of time is a situation that lends itself well to the use of a microcomputer . |
| 3 | The only way that we could definitely ascertain the extent of the increase in recorded crime which is due to changes in reporting and/or recording practices would be if there were available victimization data over a long period . |
| 4 | This applied to many houses in the street , presumably brought about by the making up of the road with gravel over a long period . |
| 5 | There was considerable vaginal dilation ; in my view , only consistent with full penetration over a long period . |
| 6 | The large amounts of data needed for such an analysis were obtained by means of a participant observation method which allowed the investigator to record speakers over a long period , returning to collect more data if specific gaps emerged in the course of the analysis ( cf. 3.1 ) . |
| 7 | It may also be possible to argue that where the party has failed to respond to a notice of assignment from the purchaser , such lack of action over a long period is an implied consent where that party has dealt with the purchaser after completion . |
| 8 | In other words , if fewer teeth were filled to begin with , and more worn fillings were repaired , rather than replaced , their owners would have less need for crowns , dentures , root-canal therapy and dental implants over the long haul . |
| 9 | If this analysis is accepted , then it is clear that the attempt over a long period of time to protect the position of those living in privately rented accommodation has failed and has , in fact , made the position worse . |
| 10 | It will be difficult or impossible to establish a course of dealing on the basis of a small number of transactions over a long period . |
| 11 | ‘ Both were using it in the sense that , in regard to the Inns , the judges over a long period , from time to time , had concurred in the Inns performing the duty of selecting those persons who were fit and proper persons to be called to the Bar and to be entitled to a right of audience in the courts and the duty of suspending or prohibiting such persons from practice . |
| 12 | Both may be guessing , although the Encomiast is reasonably well-informed on the campaigns late in Æthelred II's reign , and William 's report of mixed methods need not be far wrong , even if it is a guess ; the armies which troubled England over the long period between c.985 and 1016 do often seem to have comprised the warbands of a number of men , are unlikely to have been organised and commanded solely by Danish kings , did not consist entirely of Danes , and frequently appear to have been motivated mainly by a desire for booty . |
| 13 | Common sense as well as medical evidence tells us , however , that excessive drinking over a long period of time can lead to health problems — and that drinking vast quantities in a short space of time is both foolish and dangerous . |
| 14 | Records may have to be kept for reference over a long period of time and therefore they must be adequately protected . |
| 15 | Other types of skin cancer are associated with continued exposure to the sun over a long period . |
| 16 | The two main sets of circumstances to which the Act is normally applied relate first to mental disorder and secondly to self-neglect over a long period . |
| 17 | I think there 's a danger , if we keep surveying a wide range over a long term , you end up by not moving forward very quickly in a particular direction . |
| 18 | Permanent income can be thought of as the present value of the expected flow of income from the existing stock of both ‘ human ’ and ‘ non-human ’ wealth over a long period of time . |
| 19 | Recall from Chapter 19 that this is a long-run measure of income which can be thought of as the present value of the expected flow of income from the stock of human and non-human wealth over a long period of time . |
| 20 | It is to be hoped that some of the numerous shales in the Devonian and Carboniferous sections may prove to have been sufficiently ductile to restrain escape over the long timespan involved , despite the degree of deformation to which they have been subjected . |
| 21 | My teaching finished just before Easter , and on my way north I went to the national cycle rally , which was held in a motor camp near Blenheim over the long weekend . |
| 22 | The father , Mr P , also an English incomer to Orkney , had carried out various forms of abuse over a long period of time . |
| 23 | Resuming the A.87 at the Killilan junction , the road now turns between banks ablaze with gorse and enters the populated environs of Dornie , bypassing the separate community of Ardelve and reaching the village over a long road bridge . |
| 24 | The majority of the work shown was very recent , but several of the pieces date back as much as 10 years revealing her fascination with the themes from classical mythology over a long period . |
| 25 | The explanation is that , given a totally unvarying diet over a long period of time , especially if it is from kittenhood right through into adult life , a cat 's ‘ food variety mechanism ’ gets worn down and is finally switched off altogether . |
| 26 | Poor timekeeping over a long period usually amounts to misconduct . |
| 27 | To know that there 's someone going to buy your crop over a long period of time , or part of your crop , ideally , over a long period of time , does help people to plan ahead . |
| 28 | On the other hand , in certain other areas of our bulk chemicals we have been very successful in maintaining a good margin business over a long period of time . |
| 29 | Iron fittings could replace wooden components gradually , allowing major alterations to take place over a long period . |
| 30 | It had to take place over a long period , in the face of a prodigious number of uncontrolled variables which were likely to confuse the outcome . |