Example sentences of "[noun] over long [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anomalous aspects of nature often venerated by ritual over long periods of time become charged with the directed mental/ psychic energy of their race . |
| 2 | It has also been clear in his methods of training orchestras over long periods of time . |
| 3 | Although Britain has been occupied by man for more than 25,000 years , in a form of intermittent visits over long periods between glaciations , it is only for the last 12,000 years or so that the country has been continuously occupied , with people moving into Britain permanently to exploit what resources were available . |
| 4 | Government is becoming increasingly task or product orientated , rather than directed towards carrying out functions over long periods of time in line with established routines . |
| 5 | In the UK , for example , there is evidence that the local authority council house system has reduced mobility over long distances for those who seek housing in this sector ( Hughes and McCormick 1981 ) . |
| 6 | With brute strength ( it took at least ten horses to shift even one medium field gun ) , the Germans eventually moved their guns forward but the delays involved meant that many of the deadly 21Os , so essential a part of the German offensive technique , were hors de combat over long periods of the battle during its most critical phase . |
| 7 | The crucial experiments with standardised diets , each time excluding or adding wheat or rye flour over long periods in these children with coeliac disease , were performed on four children in the Wilhelmina Children 's Hospital in Utrecht and in one child in the Juliana Children 's Hospital in The Hague . |
| 8 | Not only is the method not scientific but , to the extent that Marx did make certain historical prophecies which can be related to empirical evidence over long periods of time , these can be examined and by and large they have not proved to be valid . |
| 9 | Longitudinal studies indicate that the condition affects people over long periods of their lives yet there is no evidence that they are at risk of any serious organic disease . |
| 10 | The report , Indoor Pollution , concludes that the low quality of air in commercial buildings has led to " reduced health and efficiency for many people over long numbers of years ' , which may have had " greater economic impact than more life-threatening conditions " . |
| 11 | This trade-off was based on the original observations by Professor A. W. Phillips of the relationship between the rate of change of money wage rates and unemployment levels over long periods of time going back as far as 1861 . |
| 12 | Dee looked out of the window of the flat over long rows of grim , dark housing developments . |
| 13 | It might be expected that where such clonal growth is possible , the struggle for existence over long periods of stable management would lead to the local dominance of single clones — those that had succeeded in a struggle for existence with others . |
| 14 | Three features which are significant are trend , which includes well defined cyclic behaviour ; persistence , when a particular value in a sequence is constrained by adjacent values ; and intermittency , whereby there is a tendency for non-periodic grouping of like values over long periods of time , which effect is called the ‘ Hurst phenomenon ’ . |
| 15 | What I know about palaeotology is n't too much I mean I obviously have to try and know a bit , but it 's not my field — erm in order to test the minor claim , you have to be able to get your hands on some rock which actually consists of continuous sedimentation over long periods of time . |
| 16 | Comparisons of this kind are difficult to make with accuracy over long periods of time ; but the direction and size of the change are beyond doubt . |
| 17 | A nine hour wait.Anger over long delays in casualty unit . |
| 18 | To be of any practical use , an object made from a polymeric material must be able to retain its shape when subjected to even small tensions or compressions over long periods of time . |
| 19 | Bringing up supplies over long distances through dense woodland in King William 's War ( as the struggle of the 1690s known in England and Europe as the War of the League of Augsburg became known in America ) was so difficult that launching an attack was more a matter of logistics than of strategy . |
| 20 | Children received portions of the family property on different occasions over long periods of time . |