Example sentences of "[prep] a [adv] long period [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he returned , after a slightly longer period than on the two previous occasions , Elisa had been persuaded to have a second cup of coffee . |
| 2 | Moreover , an older lady should need a companion for a much longer period than a girl on the catch for a husband . |
| 3 | Obviously these policies are not for three months , three thousand miles , they are for a much longer period than that , and obviously if people do have problems then that 's what we 're here for . |
| 4 | Investigations into the activities of this particular gang had been carried out over a very long period and they had been kept under constant surveillance by our officers who were thus able to feed us all the necessary information towards a successful interception . |
| 5 | These were ‘ asymmetrical cyclical troughs ’ because recovery of output was spread over a much longer period than its initial loss , and because many factories closed for good in the second recession . |
| 6 | The circular changed and allowed that joint finance money to be paid over a much longer period and virtually in perpetuity . |