Example sentences of "[prep] a much long [noun] " 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 | This must have been a most amazing sight , coming as it did as the climax of a much longer event staged beforehand outside Wanstead House itself . |
| 3 | Auden was part of a much longer game : part of a shape which , as yet , existed in his head alone . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Moreover , an older lady should need a companion for a much longer period than a girl on the catch for a husband . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Normally you will want to use full side-slip for a few seconds rather than a small amount of slip for a much longer time . |
| 11 | We will only know the answer to this and many other questions when televising has continued for a much longer time . |
| 12 | The phrase ‘ community participation ’ has been used for a much longer time . |
| 13 | The idea of entitlement probably represents an attempt , during a much longer debate about the need for a ‘ national ’ curriculum , to bring into focus the child 's individual needs and rights : it is needed to counterbalance any propensity towards the state 's collective needs — totalitarianism if you will — which a move towards a nationally prescribed curriculum might bring with it . |
| 14 | The first record of the term ‘ long-firm fraud ’ which Levi uncovers was in a journal of 1869 , while the obtaining of goods under the false pretence that one had an honest and solvent business is an activity with a much longer history . |
| 15 | These new strains have been bred to combine the varied colours , forms and scents of old roses with a much longer season of flowers . |
| 16 | The clinical presentation of those affected and the course of the disease were characteristic of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease ; the other inherited prion diseases so far described generally present as an illness similar to Gerstmann-Sträussler syndrome with a much longer duration or as atypical dementia . |
| 17 | The following cases were included in a much longer article entitled Fifty Millesimal Potencies — An Introduction which appeared in the November 1985 edition of The Hahnemannian Gleanings . |
| 18 | But perhaps the main shift in all professional fields is the gradual introduction of recurrent , continuing education which implies that a professional degree ( or even chartered and qualified status ) is only the initial stage in a much longer process . |
| 19 | Whatever our personal views on politics , morals and society are , we have responsibilities not simply to the here and now but to society over a much longer term . |
| 20 | ( Monday to Friday ) , giving a taste of the kind of stamina that will ultimately be required over a much longer period . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The circular changed and allowed that joint finance money to be paid over a much longer period and virtually in perpetuity . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The major difference appears to be that of timescale ; perfusion is spread over a much longer time scale than arterial infusion . |
| 30 | We 've got to look at it in those terms , and so it is not necessary in my submission for anyone to prove at the moment there is at least five thousand dwellings short , erm that that is something which ought to be considered over a much longer time period . |