Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] over [art] long " in BNC.

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1 Both may be guessing , although the Encomiast is reasonably well-informed on the campaigns late in Æthelred II's reign , and William 's report of mixed methods need not be far wrong , even if it is a guess ; the armies which troubled England over the long period between c.985 and 1016 do often seem to have comprised the warbands of a number of men , are unlikely to have been organised and commanded solely by Danish kings , did not consist entirely of Danes , and frequently appear to have been motivated mainly by a desire for booty .
2 Nor did she see coherence over a longer period partly because her own world was a social one dominated by friends , clothes , music and beckoning adulthood .
3 The large amounts of data needed for such an analysis were obtained by means of a participant observation method which allowed the investigator to record speakers over a long period , returning to collect more data if specific gaps emerged in the course of the analysis ( cf. 3.1 ) .
4 Angus Crichton-Miller , managing director of the Rank Organisation 's holidays and hotels division and a member of the study group said : ‘ It is not an efficient system to have such changes between busy and quiet periods and it would be better if we could flatten prices over a longer season , rather than have such high-peak-season prices . ’
5 Complex carbohydrates on the other hand , e.g. pasta , release energy over a longer period of time .
6 As with any technique , direct mail has basic principles which must be obeyed if the programme is to communicate and raise money over a long period : * It must be regular ( a minimum of eight times a year ) * It must be personal , relevant and informal * It must be good quality * It must ask for and offer something * It must appeal to emotion first and reason second
7 The child who uses goed or comed is guilty of over-generalisation , while in sign the use of repetition to convey occurrence over a long time would be appropriate in WAIT-WAIT-WAIT , meaning ‘ wait for ages ’ but not in KEEP-KEEP-KEEP , where it would probably mean to ‘ keep three ’ things rather than to ‘ keep over time ’ .
8 Can I extend my covenant , if I wish to continue making payments over a longer period ?
9 The singular British anomaly of failure to expand employment over the longer term in the manufacture of new information technology products was , in the view of the geographers Hall and Preston ( 1988 , 220–1 ) , ‘ a consequence of the deteriorating competitive position of British firms , associated with poor innovative performance ’ .
10 Iron fittings could replace wooden components gradually , allowing major alterations to take place over a long period .
11 It had to take place over a long period , in the face of a prodigious number of uncontrolled variables which were likely to confuse the outcome .
12 The length of time it has been operation will determine how much money she gets back , but it is unlikely to have made much of a profit , because endowments are designed to make money over a long period of time .
13 Other families need help over a longer period , although the group is careful not to overlap with the work of professional staff from the social services .
14 It is to be hoped that some of the numerous shales in the Devonian and Carboniferous sections may prove to have been sufficiently ductile to restrain escape over the long timespan involved , despite the degree of deformation to which they have been subjected .
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