Example sentences of "[noun pl] over long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The transport of sulphates over long distances can lead to reductions in visibility over extensive areas and at locations distant from pollution sources . |
| 2 | Naggaroth 's dark master had perfected his evil arts over long millennia and for the first time Teclis met a foe that was his match . |
| 3 | Many Braniel people owned cars and telephones , which they used as a means of maintaining important personal ties over long distances , and the capacity of these ties to influence their behaviour ( linguistic or otherwise ) is not clear . |
| 4 | Signalling by diffusion can work well for small organisms , but it is limited ; diffusion of chemical signals over long distances is slow and inefficient , as it can not be specifically targeted to ensure that the signal arrives only at the cell it was intended for . |
| 5 | Its organization was similar in that it was controlled by persons of relatively high social status , that ransoming was a major source of profit , and that the transporting of animals over long distances was usual when a payment was not forthcoming . |
| 6 | It has also been clear in his methods of training orchestras over long periods of time . |
| 7 | A greater degree of regional self-sufficiency in many basic food-stuffs , especially milk and meat could be encouraged in order to avoid the mounting costs of transporting such commodities over long distances which is now common . |
| 8 | While the actual canals , together with their locks , bridges and wharfs , have their own intrinsic interest , far more significant is the fact that they allowed the easy and cheap movement of bulk cargoes over long distances . |
| 9 | Although Britain has been occupied by man for more than 25,000 years , in a form of intermittent visits over long periods between glaciations , it is only for the last 12,000 years or so that the country has been continuously occupied , with people moving into Britain permanently to exploit what resources were available . |
| 10 | Government is becoming increasingly task or product orientated , rather than directed towards carrying out functions over long periods of time in line with established routines . |
| 11 | Standardization comes about for functional reasons , and its effect is to make a language serviceable for communicating decontextualized information-bearing messages over long distances and periods of time . |
| 12 | The increased demand for food to feed the growing populations of the great cities was met by speedy rail communication with the countryside , which allowed the transportation of perishable goods over long distances and promoted commercialization , specialization , and modernization in the agriculture of many countries . |
| 13 | Together with inevitable involvement with patients and their families over long periods , this encourages a change of emphasis from diagnosis/treatment/cure to assessment/assistance/care . |
| 14 | This trade-off was based on the original observations by Professor A. W. Phillips of the relationship between the rate of change of money wage rates and unemployment levels over long periods of time going back as far as 1861 . |
| 15 | If you need a modem to link into say Compuserve and pick up and collect messages this modem is ideal — if you are uploading and downloading big files over long distances you need a quicker modem . |
| 16 | But while they look broadly similar across the industry , being between 1 and 2 per cent , even this small difference can start to have a significant effect on returns over longer periods . |
| 17 | Three features which are significant are trend , which includes well defined cyclic behaviour ; persistence , when a particular value in a sequence is constrained by adjacent values ; and intermittency , whereby there is a tendency for non-periodic grouping of like values over long periods of time , which effect is called the ‘ Hurst phenomenon ’ . |
| 18 | This prevented the application of reflationary policies over long time periods , since deflation of demand , to reduce spending on imports , was often used to correct balance of payments deficits . |
| 19 | Interactions over longer distances encouraged the development of common conventions , of measures of security , of a lingua franca in which business could be conducted . |
| 20 | By vastly cheapening the carriage of heavy materials over long distances , the canals also brought about indirect changes in the landscape . |
| 21 | Fighting went on in New France for another twelve months , but after the fall of Quebec this was more a matter of moving forces over long distances than of confronting threats that the French might retrieve their position . |
| 22 | They ‘ trapline ’ , moving directly from one food site to the next , apparently remembering them from previous days , and are fast fliers , visiting plants producing ( few ) flowers over long periods . |
| 23 | To be of any practical use , an object made from a polymeric material must be able to retain its shape when subjected to even small tensions or compressions over long periods of time . |
| 24 | This required governments to cut public spending and imports , and increase exports , in exchange for fresh loans , or extending old ones over longer periods . |
| 25 | Clearly prey need to be both sprinters over short distances and marathon runners over longer ones , to be able to defend themselves against both types of pursuers . |
| 26 | Bringing up supplies over long distances through dense woodland in King William 's War ( as the struggle of the 1690s known in England and Europe as the War of the League of Augsburg became known in America ) was so difficult that launching an attack was more a matter of logistics than of strategy . |
| 27 | Children received portions of the family property on different occasions over long periods of time . |