Example sentences of "[adv] a [adv] [adj] period [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For , despite acquiring a mass of archival material stretching over a very long period of time , the Chinese never developed anything corresponding to the modern Western concept of history . |
| 2 | Fact : The authors have chosen here to quote undiscounted and out-of-date figures although they make much play of discount rates elsewhere in their article and must be aware that the decommissioning costs concerned arise over a very long period of time stretching to the end of the twenty-first century and beyond . |
| 3 | Today , with the pressure of business on the Court , there is usually a very lengthy period of at least nine months between allowance of Proof and the Proof itself . |
| 4 | Incongruously , this was also a very happy period for me in many ways . |
| 5 | There was therefore a very long period during which the need for a god was having its effect on the developing mind of man , but during which no god worship as now understood was practised . |