Example sentences of "[prep] [art] 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 | These ambiguities were not merely the result of unfortunate political alliances but of the much longer history of middle-class women 's involvement in the field of social regulation . |
| 3 | The effects of oil pollution on marine mammals are more severe in colder waters , not only because of the much longer time required for the oil to break down , but also because concentrations of cetaceans and other marine mammals are often larger in polar waters . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Auden was part of a much longer game : part of a shape which , as yet , existed in his head alone . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Moreover , an older lady should need a companion for a much longer period than a girl on the catch for a husband . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | We will only know the answer to this and many other questions when televising has continued for a much longer time . |
| 14 | The phrase ‘ community participation ’ has been used for a much longer time . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Compare this short algebra sentence with the much longer sentence it replaces . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | These new strains have been bred to combine the varied colours , forms and scents of old roses with a much longer season of flowers . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | But in the much longer term it seems doubtful that diversification should be exclusively towards nuclear power , which carries its own commercial , political and possibly safety risks . |
| 21 | Changes in the normal oxygen/carbon dioxide levels occur in the lungs and , in the much longer term , this may have an effect on the acidity of the blood . |
| 22 | I think that what we have to decide today , or one of the things that needs to be decided is , is the new settlement in the longer term a sensible answer given that all the all the various considerations , and that erm arguing about residual numbers , here or there has to be taken in the much longer context , I think that 's what all I would like the to say at the moment on on new settlement erm because of the situation I am in of not being able to er say too much in detail about it , I sha n't be making very many contributions to this particular debate . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Only a small part of this difference between the two planets is due to the much longer night on Venus : the main reason is unknown . |
| 26 | The latter area is developing so rapidly , and sees so many new initiatives , that its shape is still relatively unclear and the techniques are still being refined ; but they are firmly based on the much longer experience gained through co-operation in the civil area . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ( Monday to Friday ) , giving a taste of the kind of stamina that will ultimately be required over a much longer period . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |