Example sentences of "[prep] a long period [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | For a long period before the 1970s they were Fordist ; in the 1970s/1980s period of structural change neo-Fordism came to dominate . |
| 3 | The Teleuts , however , had been sovereign in their own domains for a long period before the Russians arrived on the scene . |
| 4 | Those and many other pressures may distract them from remaining for a long period in the Territorial Army . |
| 5 | The styles of learning in Koranic schools and catechist classes have predictable effects on the way children learn in school , but the missionary tradition in education is responsible for so much else besides , ( over a long period of the history of formal education the great majority of schools were missionary schools ) . |
| 6 | The large increase in coastal shipping after 1760 was built on a transport facility which had already proved itself over a long period among the most valuable of the country 's natural assets . |