Example sentences of "long [noun sg] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under the clampdown all Palestinians , including 50,000 day workers employed in Israel , had been prevented from leaving the Strip for 14 days , the longest quarantine period since the 40-day closure of the Israeli-occupied territories during the Gulf war in early 1991 . |
| 2 | ‘ The offer price of 240p is spread over the longest instalment period ever on any privatisation . |
| 3 | In both cases , the difference between shortest and longest repayment period involved a change from about 10 per cent to 50 per cent APR . |
| 4 | Northern Rock has extended the guaranteed term on its new loans discount by a further four months to August 1 , 1993 , the longest discount period offered by a major UK lender . |
| 5 | Transmission often succeeds only after a long incubation period , which decreases substantially after serial passaging . |
| 6 | For fifty days ( an exceptionally long incubation period ) it remained in the egg . |
| 7 | He made out a clear case for embalming all bodies and for treating them all similarly , bearing in mind the long incubation period and uncertain diagnosis in HIV infections . |
| 8 | Some organisations knew about the different types of viral hepatitis and that there is a long incubation period . |
| 9 | This drop is largely irrelevant because the long incubation period of 10 years or more between HIV-1 infection and AIDS onset results in a complex relation between the time of HIV-1 infection diagnosis and AIDS incubation period . |
| 10 | The size of the palazzo , and the intricacy of its design ensured a very long building period , the main staircase being completed only at the end of the century , after Alessi 's death . |
| 11 | Despite a long building period , both interior and exterior are remarkably homogeneous ( 430 , 600 and 610 ) . |
| 12 | Because of its long withdrawal period it is of limited use in meat producing animals . |
| 13 | So there 's this enormously long testing period now takes place and that cuts down the risk of their being disasters or catastrophes . |
| 14 | The cost and long maturation period of forests has meant that most reafforestation programmes are financed and controlled by governments with compulsory land purchase , or long leasing arrangements with land owners . |
| 15 | oh , because there were so many units it was er a long selling period |
| 16 | Mass is celebrated here at midday , the church having been reconsecrated after a long deconsecration period . |
| 17 | On the one hand , people look for a low instalment amount ( which of course tends to mean a relatively long repayment period ) ; on the other , they look for a short repayment period ( which tends to mean a relatively high instalment amount ) . |
| 18 | With the second set of options ( long repayment period = low APR ) , the average repayment period chosen was if anything shorter than with the first ( short repayment period = low APR ) . |
| 19 | Given the general anxiety to avoid long-term indebtedness , a stated preference for small instalments — even at the expense of a long repayment period — must often be interpreted as recognition of tight budget limits that rule out larger instalments . |
| 20 | Ervin and Washburn ( 1981 ) have shown that even with very favourable combinations of a low discount rate , a long planning period and a high level of individual cost sharing , private incentives are very seldom sufficient for the individual farmer . |
| 21 | and et all ( 362 , 355 & 359 ; 1993 showed that these organs ( among others ) are sites at which the virus multiplies during the often long latency period in AIDS , but more will have to be known of this process before it can be the basis of a routine assay . |
| 22 | Like domestic Guinea Pigs , the young are born well developed after a long gestation period of four months — covered in fur and with eyes open , they run around the mother soon after birth . |
| 23 | The First ( or rather the first he acknowledged , since there had been a previous Quartettsatz he had written at the age of 25 ) was completed in 1920 after a long gestation period of four years — partly explicable by its extreme complexity and his elaborately detailed indications on the playing of almost every note . |
| 24 | During a long gestation period , there is a lot of talk and little action . |
| 25 | The okapi , according to Gill Venner , is shy and elusive and has a long gestation period . ) |
| 26 | BC had a long gestation period , with the first outline being published in 1910 , and the full schedules in three volumes between 1940 and 1953 . |
| 27 | To get to the pay review body involved an interesting and long gestation period by Ministers . |
| 28 | sorry , erm this budget has a very long gestation period er I 'm on version twelve I think at the last count and I hope there is n't gon na be a version thirteen . |
| 29 | For pre-industrial society , youth was a long transition period lasting from the first signs of independence of the young child to marriage . |
| 30 | Because of the long housing period very close attention at lambing was possible resulting in very few losses . |