Example sentences of "[prep] a much [adj] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Moreover , an older lady should need a companion for a much longer period than a girl on the catch for a husband . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The nationalities concerned are generally Lutheran ( Estonians and Latvians ) or Roman Catholic ( Lithuanians ) by religion , not Orthodox , and they have been under Soviet rule for a much shorter period of time than most other nationalities , since 1940 rather than the immediate post-revolutionary period ( when communist-led governments were briefly established in all three republics ) . |
| 9 | The market can close for the remainder of the trading day or for a much shorter period such as half an hour , depending on the exchange . |
| 10 | An operating lease lasts for a much shorter period of time than the economic life of the asset and the lessor retains the risks and rewards of ownership . |
| 11 | In addition to this decrease in size child bearing is now concentrated into a much shorter period of a woman 's life . |
| 12 | Although the Inland Revenue has up to three months in which to confirm the validity of the election ( s 248(2) ) , in practice it is usually prepared to give confirmation within a much shorter period . |
| 13 | The delayed decline in the population of Lewis and Harris and of the Western Isles amounted to rather more than 30% over a much shorter period . |
| 14 | ( Monday to Friday ) , giving a taste of the kind of stamina that will ultimately be required over a much longer period . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The circular changed and allowed that joint finance money to be paid over a much longer period and virtually in perpetuity . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | In B. 's case , the plaintiff 's complaint is of negligence by medical staff at a much earlier period — they carried out a dilation and curettage ( ‘ D. and C. procedure ’ ) at a time when the plaintiff 's mother was about five weeks pregnant with the plaintiff but did not know it , and they failed to carry out any pregnancy test before the D. and C. procedure . |