Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] a long period " in BNC.
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| 1 | A short continuous crisis , the origins and consequences of which cover a long period , seems to be the double requirement of tragedy and its double relationship to time . |
| 2 | There followed a long period of explanation of what we did followed by negotiations on what we would have to do to meet the standard . |
| 3 | After a century there began a long period of sea warfare and skirmishing over the north of Ulthuan . |
| 4 | These long-term priming effects are explained , within the logogen model , by assuming that after threshold has been reached activation dies down rapidly at first over a period of a second or so , but does not quite reach the normal resting level : there follows a long period during which there is very slow decay of residual activation — a period measured in hours or even days . |
| 5 | He listened in silence for what seemed a longer period than normal , then she heard him speak . |