Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] over a long " in BNC.

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1 Instead that sense has to be nurtured by more direct experience over a long period of time .
2 The explanation is that , given a totally unvarying diet over a long period of time , especially if it is from kittenhood right through into adult life , a cat 's ‘ food variety mechanism ’ gets worn down and is finally switched off altogether .
3 He went on ‘ improving ’ this poem over a long period of years so that the text usually printed shows many alterations from the original .
4 There is thus a tendency to build up a strong personal relationship over a long time , and slick high-pressure selling techniques are unlikely to be of much help .
5 Those few casual workers in the catering industry who do seem to work on a more or less continuous , almost full-time basis over a long period for a single organisation ( the plaintiffs in the oft-cited " O'Kelly case " ) , tend to possess skills which that organisation , and indeed other potential employers , value .
6 Thus you will already be aerobically fit , that is able to sustain a relatively low work-load over a long period .
7 The results they obtained suggested a close relationship between changes in the United States ' money supply and changes in money national income over a long period of time .
8 A case reports and clinical-epidemiological studies have evaluated the cancer risk in patients who have abused anthranoid laxatives over a long period .
9 A case report and clinical-epidemiological studies in patients who have misused anthranoid laxatives over a long period should be considered in a final risk assessment for colorectal cancer in man .
10 This can have a rather unsettling effect over a long period — the family man can not promise to take his children to the seaside or his wife out to dinner more than a week ahead without the chance that he might be in India , California or Scotland at the time he promised .
11 Recall from Chapter 19 that this is a long-run measure of income which can be thought of as the present value of the expected flow of income from the stock of human and non-human wealth over a long period of time .
12 Poor timekeeping over a long period usually amounts to misconduct .
13 It reached its present form over a long period of time during which there have been numerous law changes — not all of which have achieved their desired result , as Ian Kirkpatrick , Rutherford 's South African counterpart , was the first to point out .
14 She was still wearing her Sunday clothes , black coat over a long dress , with matching gloves , hat and bag ; every Sunday she remembered those dear to her who had died — every Sunday she mourned .
15 Her most recent purchase — a transparent black coat over a long wrap skirt from Jigsaw , topped off with a dramatic black hat from La Beau Chapeau in Belfast — is destined for a wedding , and gives her the look of a modern day Mary Poppins in mourning .
16 Batteries last longer if they are charged and discharged in deep cycles over a long period .
17 We therefore laid our plans and moved out in good order over a long period of time .
18 Fred has been encouraging pilferage over a long period .
19 There was considerable vaginal dilation ; in my view , only consistent with full penetration over a long period .
20 The stimulating article Some library costs and options by Brown ( an economist ) concludes ‘ it seems to be worth acquiring and providing storage for , books likely to be wanted more often than , once in about 1.7 years over a long period ’ .
21 The majority of the work shown was very recent , but several of the pieces date back as much as 10 years revealing her fascination with the themes from classical mythology over a long period .
22 Alison is an artist who has made an important contribution over a long period
23 Damien , the wild card , has had a very visible year whilst Alison is an artist who has made an important contribution over a long period .
24 the nature of the caring relationship is likely to be based on love and mutual support over a long period of time .
25 The solidarity of the community is strengthened … by a shared history of living and working in one place over a long period of time … .
26 He has been a doughty fighter over a long period in favour of the use of democracy and dialogue and in condemnation of the use of violence .
27 Now , now it would 've been easier for you , the , the part that you missed out which would have brought all that in to play would have been how much do you want to pay , do you wan na pay a , a small amount over a long time or a big amount over a short time and then that would 've brought that into play .
28 However , a syndrome of this severity is not commonly reported in foals under natural conditions , probably because larval intake is continuous during grazing ; it has been show experimentally that foals may tolerate large numbers of larvae administered in small doses over a long period .
29 Common sense as well as medical evidence tells us , however , that excessive drinking over a long period of time can lead to health problems — and that drinking vast quantities in a short space of time is both foolish and dangerous .
30 My own efforts over a long period of time , plus correspondence and telephone calls to various bodies have met with no success .
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