Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [art] long period " in BNC.

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1 We have made it clear for a long period that we believe that devolution or independence would damage very severely the degree of inward investment into Scotland and the degree of self-generating investment within Scotland as well .
2 To summarize : if you have been made redundant or have been unemployed for a long period :
3 THERE is nothing more soul-destroying than being unemployed for a long period , as no doubt some SRN readers can readily confirm , writes EDDIE BELLASS .
4 THERE is nothing more soul-destroying than being unemployed for a long period , as no doubt some SRN readers can readily confirm .
5 In this way , the mother provides her baby with more food over the period of its development than she would be able to pack into a single egg , and what is more , she can do this over a long period instead of being compelled to produce it all at one moment .
6 My right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Edinburgh , Pentlands ( Mr. Rifkind ) has made it unequivocally clear over a long period of years that he is wholly opposed to unilateral devolution , which is what the Bill proposes .
7 Andrew , is there a feature in this plan called waiver of premium , what these means to you is that if you 're off ill for a long period of time , through accident , ill-health , whatever , Abbey will actually still pay them for you , until you 're well again .
8 The surrounding catchment area at first contributes little but clear run-off , and the lake water remains oligotrophic for a long period .
9 So if y if the chemicals will do that over a long period of time to rubber , think what it would do to your skin .
10 Cessation of growth is most likely to result from starvation , which may arise because : the whelks eat out their food supply , or the supply fails for some other reason ( perhaps as a result of pollution Bryan ( 1969 ) ; wave action dislodges the whelks and transports them away from their food supply , or prevents them from feeding in some other way ( Cowell and Crothers , 1970 ) ; the temperature drops so low that the whelks become inactive for a long period ( Feare , 1970a ) .
11 Lawson himself , while neither tactful nor popular , was astonishingly successful for a long period .
12 Leah bore him children , but Rachel was barren for a long period during which Jacob had children by her maidservant before she eventually gave birth to Joseph and then Benjamin .
13 The second attraction is that the Town and Country Planning Association is a fascinating case study of a pressure group that has been active over a long period .
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