Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [prep] a long period " 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 | However , if it were possible to keep careful watch over a longer period , you would discover two interesting things . |
| 3 | Indeed , as the indices stubbornly refused to improve , there seemed little prospect that interest rates would not remain at this historically high level for a long period to come . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He went on ‘ improving ’ this poem over a long period of years so that the text usually printed shows many alterations from the original . |
| 6 | Moreover , since the use of thrombolytic agents and aspirin in patients with myocardial infarction improves short and long term survival we would expect to have to give any additional treatment for a longer period to a larger number of patients to show a further reduction in mortality . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Thus you will already be aerobically fit , that is able to sustain a relatively low work-load over a long period . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Similar strategies have been pursued in most Western European and Australasian democracies for a longer period , notably in the UK , where limits on what parties can spend in local constituencies are remarkably stringent . |
| 11 | If all had gone well the husband would have earned very large sums for a long period so that he could have maintained them at least at their standard of living at the time of his death , and made other provisions for the future . |
| 12 | A case reports and clinical-epidemiological studies have evaluated the cancer risk in patients who have abused anthranoid laxatives over a long period . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Light : Needs very good light over a longer period than is used for other water plants Water temperature : 68°–78°F . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Poor timekeeping over a long period usually amounts to misconduct . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Batteries last longer if they are charged and discharged in deep cycles over a long period . |
| 20 | We therefore laid our plans and moved out in good order over a long period of time . |
| 21 | Fred has been encouraging pilferage over a long period . |
| 22 | There was considerable vaginal dilation ; in my view , only consistent with full penetration over a long period . |
| 23 | 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 ’ . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Alison is an artist who has made an important contribution over a long period |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | the nature of the caring relationship is likely to be based on love and mutual support over a long period of time . |
| 28 | The solidarity of the community is strengthened … by a shared history of living and working in one place over a long period of time … . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Such horses that are locked up in stables without sensory stimulation for a long period will become permanently more anxious and fearful . |