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

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1 And subsequently after a long period of time , the opinions of our members generally was that we should change the , the procedure .
2 Should we dump everything down onto a long-term storage medium and select at the end of a longer period of time with the benefit of historical hindsight , say after 25 years ?
3 ‘ This is one that Alan has had for a long period of time , ’ Mr Cross said .
4 If the child shows a habit of prolonged crying then instead of expecting him or her to sit there for a long period of time , the first break in crying after a few minutes should be taken by the parent as an opportunity to allow the child to get up .
5 Part of this dependence is simply being used to being ‘ under the influence ’ or ‘ stoned ’ for a long period of time and drugs such as cannabis and amphetamines may go some way to overcoming this problem .
6 The first step in achieving this objective is to guarantee a place on Employment Training ( ET ) for everyone who has been out of work for a long period of time .
7 The reason for all this is because carp are very hard fish to catch and carp fishermen fish for a long period of time often a few nights and days .
8 It then lends the money to house purchasers for a long period of time by granting mortgages ( typically these are paid back over 20 to 30 years ) .
9 I think the other possibility to take Stella 's point is that if there is a change that 's come up because of an audit , where a particular job has been audited and you know that within the next week or so another similar job is being audited , it may make sense to refer it 'til the next meeting , providing you 're not deferring it for a long period of time , to compar the results of the two jobs .
10 Andrew , is there a feature in this plan called waiver of premium , what these means to you is that if you 're off ill for a long period of time , through accident , ill-health , whatever , Abbey will actually still pay them for you , until you 're well again .
11 In the Covermaster Plan , Andrew , there 's something called waiver of premium , what this means to you is that if you 're off work through illness for a long period of time , Abbey 's going to pay the premiums for you .
12 Now reference was made to the police finance working party which met for a long period of time , and unfortunately made no progress whatsoever in zero base budgeting .
13 We have had a problem for a long period of time now on high conductivity .
14 Your friends usually are the one you have known for a long period of time , for example at work or at university .
15 for a long period of time
16 Yeah but you 're not used to him being home all the time are you Lyn , I mean for a long period of time like .
17 However , many clients were supported by the scheme , and it is only through comparison with the control sample that one can determine whether or not the project was successful in sustaining them at home for a longer period of time than would have been the case without it .
18 A behavioural response is strengthened when it has an increased probability of occurring ( frequency ) or when it is likely to be performed for a longer period of time ( duration ) .
19 Although these children were potentially a lot more intelligent than the rest of society , they still feared something and this is what suppressed them for a longer period of time .
20 The best businesses over a long period of time have been the ones with a single thrust .
21 Thus , over a long period of time , stone , glass and metals acquire a distinctive patina which the faker must try and imitate .
22 Also the junction between the uncorroded metal and the applied patina is very sharp , whereas a patina which has developed over a long period of time will have eaten into the metal in a very irregular and quite characteristic manner that is very difficult to imitate .
23 Your own , personalized weight control programme has not been a sudden thing but has evolved over a long period of time .
24 However , over a long period of time and association , horses and ponies can alter their thought patterns and learn to think more like each other , and to become more empathic .
25 But cases of die links between different places or over a long period of time are unusual .
26 There are few other industries in which , over a long period of time , revenues have covered less than half of costs .
27 However , at Cosmeston the archaeologist has the opportunity to excavate a large portion of the settlement over a long period of time and to use the results to shed light on sites where the excavators have not been so fortunate .
28 The accumulation of data over a long period of time is a situation that lends itself well to the use of a microcomputer .
29 What was less obvious was the effect on the system as a whole , which had evolved over a long period of time influenced by a variety of political and economical pressures , and not necessarily in a methodical manner .
30 In fact the opposite seems to have occurred because Grevy 's zebra is in other ways a very different animal from the common zebra and it appears that in their stripes the two species have converged rather than diverged , over a long period of time .
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