Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] a long period [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Now reference was made to the police finance working party which met for a long period of time , and unfortunately made no progress whatsoever in zero base budgeting .
2 Yeah but you 're not used to him being home all the time are you Lyn , I mean for a long period of time like .
3 Perhaps the attitude developed during a long period of established practice and little change .
4 For a start , it allows spreading to be carried over a longer period during the winter months ( Table 1 ) .
5 In early 1977 , for the first time in 30 years , campesinos in the central region of the country occupied land from which they had been evicted over a long period of time to make way for export crops .
6 It is widely accepted that the Industrial Revolution in the eighteenth century was preceded by a long period of gradual economic growth , but when the upturn began remains uncertain .
7 In the Chandni Chowk shopkeepers boarded up their premises , buried their treasure and prepared for a long period of unrest .
8 Shale sections benefit from a long period with 0.25 µm powder , as this gives very slow removal of material without plucking of quartz grains .
9 It was to lead to a long period of self-confessed misery for her , including beatings by her tranquilliser-addicted mother and spells of being locked naked with her sister in cupboards .
10 Signatories of GATT could institute tariff changes which might discriminate against third parties only if done over a long period of time , so giving those third parties the opportunities of adjusting to the change without suffering severe economic disruption .
11 In this type of study , trend values of consumption and income are collected over a long period of time so that most cyclical fluctuations are smoothed out .
12 ‘ This is one that Alan has had for a long period of time , ’ Mr Cross said .
13 Those and many other pressures may distract them from remaining for a long period in the Territorial Army .
14 Also in the crypt is the Duomo treasury , a pay-to-enter collection that is closed for a long period at lunch .
15 A behavioural response is strengthened when it has an increased probability of occurring ( frequency ) or when it is likely to be performed for a longer period of time ( duration ) .
16 Although mistrusting children , he showed an absorbed interest as he took the photographs and gazed at Henrietta ( fourteen ) , Samantha ( just ten ) and the baby Jacqueline ( now three and born after a long period during which Hugh had displayed a lack of interest in physical contact ) .
17 Your friends usually are the one you have known for a long period of time , for example at work or at university .
18 The foundations were now securely laid for a long period of prosperity rising to a peak in the early fourth century , if one can judge from the mansion-type houses in the towns and countryside .
19 Perhaps because of his career as a Naval Officer during the First World War he worked for a long period during the Second World War at the Admiralty .
20 ‘ … and the pathetic thing was that he thought he had just recovered from a long period of madness . ’
21 Figure 18.4 shows , by means of five-year moving averages of deaths per million in England and Wales , how the disease has behaved over a long period in relation to other serious illnesses .
22 Also the junction between the uncorroded metal and the applied patina is very sharp , whereas a patina which has developed over a long period of time will have eaten into the metal in a very irregular and quite characteristic manner that is very difficult to imitate .
23 Also , employers are constantly employing new staff so the return on selection has to be calculated over a longer period of time to get a true picture of the effects of selection methods .
24 I went through a long period of thinking of having him adopted .
25 As in most parts of Britain the Hercynian movements at the end of the Carboniferous were accompanied and followed by a long period of erosion .
26 British case at least , the problem of national or ethnic difference was masked for a long period by development occurring in the peripheries at the same rate and in similar ways to development in industrial England .
27 The reason for all this is because carp are very hard fish to catch and carp fishermen fish for a long period of time often a few nights and days .
28 1976 ) , is being revived after a long period of disrepute .
29 Similarly , events arising out of long-standing difficulties would increase risk of depression : where , for instance , a husband left home after years of arguing and discord ; a child was arrested for burglary after a long history of behavioural problems at home and school ; or a substantial fine was incurred after a long period of extreme financial difficulty ( Brown et al. , 1987 ) .
30 These measures had resulted from a long period of maturation and fitted into Morrison 's 1944 vision of a ‘ legislative programme of social reconstruction ’ after the war had ended .
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