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

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1 To give judgment upon these presentments , the ancient machinery of the Forest Eyre was once more set in motion after a long period of general disuse .
2 After a long period of such government , an accumulation of demands for reform may build up , creating the possibility of a crisis based on unrealizable expectations .
3 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 ) .
4 Two years of stability after a long period of severe hyperinflation have meant that Argentine publishing has begun to show some solidly healthy results .
5 By then the ethnic composition of its native population was multifarious and complex , being the result of a long period of prehistoric development .
6 Professor John in a seminal article stressed the great importance of the coincidence of a modest rate of population growth , putting no general pressure on a food supply expanded by a generation of agricultural improvement , with the bounty of a long period of good harvests .
7 In any case , a study of neolithic Early Minoan buildings very strongly implies that the temples were not an implant but the result of a long period of indigenous development .
8 The warrant boom of 1987–89 was the last phase of a long period of dramatic change for Japanese companies and their bankers .
9 We 're seeing the end of a long period of Cold War which effectively the West have won because they have kept their defences up , er and I think as Tom King , he was out here last week , has said we need to keep a strong force here to make sure that the Soviets keep their side of the bargain and er start a withdrawal at some stage .
10 Perhaps the attitude developed during a long period of established practice and little change .
11 Many of the submerged banks and the bottoms of the lagoons of the atolls seem to be at a remarkably uniform depth , as one would expect if they represent an important phase of planation during a long period of preglacial stability .
12 In general , the mountain areas of the Auvergne experience a much colder winter climate with a long period of Permanent snow .
13 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 .
14 It also prevents one from churning out the same stuff of conversation over a long period to different people ( to use words at people ) which is using those people as hard reflective surfaces and not , as I feel properly , soft digestive reflective surfaces .
15 With a solar-type star , however , the temperature rises to ten million degrees or so , and nuclear reactions are triggered off , so that the star settles down to a long period of stable existence .
16 King Edward VII and his Consort , Alexandra , were able to influence international events , particularly in Europe , which continued to be the predominant continent and Britain looked forward to a long period of peaceful influence .
17 Their congregations of ‘ Independents ’ were justly named in a society settling down to a long period of outward conformity and growing indifference to religion .
18 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 .
19 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 .
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