Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] long period of " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Inevitably , men pushed together for long periods of time became edgy and , by the time the prison was freed from the grip of the snow , three men had been knifed ( one of whom had lost a kidney ) and another had been beaten severely with a pool cue . |
| 2 | Her parents lived in another part of the country and her husband was in the army and away for long periods of time . |
| 3 | The most obvious clue to its presence is its movement , so in order for its camouflage to work it must be prepared to remain very still for long periods of time , or at least to alter its position very slowly and gently . |
| 4 | As far as chartered accountant trainees are concerned , Mr Jones argues , ‘ you have all the aggravation of training them on high salaries and the disruption to a small office with their going off for long periods of study leave , and at the end you do n't keep them . |
| 5 | He believed that the surface of the earth changed gradually over long periods of time , and saw that such changes would have an effect not only upon the physical environment to which living things were exposed , but upon the possibility of migration to new locations . |
| 6 | Indeed , talk to any manager and he or she already has common-sense theories of motivation , often built up over long periods of observing people at work . |
| 7 | ABOVE Experiments can be done to find out how ditches silt up over long periods of time , how earthworks erode , and how finds move . |
| 8 | One of the difficulties in the procedure for the institutions was the constraint on planning of not knowing — often for long periods of time — when or whether courses would be able to begin , or even whether they would be allowed to continue . |
| 9 | It took the puritan fanatics to destroy these high spirits and mockery , which led inevitably to long periods of repression with its back-street prostitution of women and young boys , one of the many ‘ hidden ’ elements in Victorian society and , what was equally lamentable , the denial of the rightful place of women in society . |
| 10 | Even as he uses the accommodation in Annexe A to manoeuvre Serafin into discovering for himself the waiting garret , so he is using the garret to manoeuvre him into rejecting all the proposed associates in Annexe B. Once Serafin has insisted on installing himself in the garret — against all reasonable advice — he is going to discover that the kind of staff he needs will be young and agile , with a good knowledge of the backstairs of Government buildings and an ability to duck their heads and remain inclined slightly forwards for long periods of time . |
| 11 | Big business or some trade unions , for example , seem to have exercised power consistently over long periods of time . |
| 12 | The builder 's surveyor will either check the information supplied by the sub-contractor or measure the work carried out during the payment period , usually weekly , but occasionally for longer periods of up to a month . |