Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [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 | 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 . |
| 11 | Light : Needs very good light over a longer period than is used for other water plants Water temperature : 68°–78°F . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Poor timekeeping over a long period usually amounts to misconduct . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | We therefore laid our plans and moved out in good order over a long period of time . |
| 16 | Fred has been encouraging pilferage over a long period . |
| 17 | There was considerable vaginal dilation ; in my view , only consistent with full penetration over a long period . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Alison is an artist who has made an important contribution over a long period |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | the nature of the caring relationship is likely to be based on love and mutual support over a long period of time . |
| 22 | The solidarity of the community is strengthened … by a shared history of living and working in one place over a long period of time … . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Such horses that are locked up in stables without sensory stimulation for a long period will become permanently more anxious and fearful . |
| 25 | It was as if our vision was a piece of elastic which was being stretched for the first time after a long period in a drawer . |
| 26 | Joseph Louis Barrow was , like Johnson , a formidable boxer who exerted total domination for a long period . |
| 27 | A timetable for an orderly sale with a longer period for developing relationships with purchasers than may be necessary in a rushed sale is included in Section 1102.5 . |
| 28 | Pre-emptive local anaesthetic field block for inguinal herniorrhaphy resulted in reduced pain scores and a delay in requests for analgesia during the six hours studied by Ejlersen et al , but similar work detected no pre-emptive effect over a longer period . |
| 29 | Common sense as well as medical evidence tells us , however , that excessive drinking over a long period of time can lead to health problems — and that drinking vast quantities in a short space of time is both foolish and dangerous . |
| 30 | Spruce needles certainly take longer to decay than some other leaves , releasing humic acid over a longer period but at a slower rate , but being a long standing constituent of the northern latitudes coniferous belt , spruce ( Picea ) is quite compatible with lakes well stocked with fish . |