Example sentences of "[art] [noun] over a long period " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 If this analysis is accepted , then it is clear that the attempt over a long period of time to protect the position of those living in privately rented accommodation has failed and has , in fact , made the position worse .
3 Other types of skin cancer are associated with continued exposure to the sun over a long period .
4 ‘ Both were using it in the sense that , in regard to the Inns , the judges over a long period , from time to time , had concurred in the Inns performing the duty of selecting those persons who were fit and proper persons to be called to the Bar and to be entitled to a right of audience in the courts and the duty of suspending or prohibiting such persons from practice .
5 Despite the behind-the-scenes politics , the most likely outcome of a redesigned Freedom is a slowing of ESA 's programme to spread the costs over a longer period .
6 In Britain these are in a state of flux although there has been much discussion about the role of the inspector over a long period of time .
7 For instance we can suggest ways of rescheduling the payments over a longer period .
8 The changes that occurred in the City 's international role over the 1960s and '70s are explained and discussed in J. Coakley and L. Harris , The City of Capital ( Oxford , Basil Blackwell ; 1983 ) ; the international role of the City over a longer period is discussed in depth in L. Harris , T. Evans , J. Coakley and M. Croasdale , New Directions in the Financial System ( London , Croom Helm ; 1988 ) .
9 It said that its study had not discovered any conclusive evidence on the damage done to humans by low-level exposure , but it stated that the lack of information and knowledge of the effects of exposure to low doses of the chemicals over a long period had led the working party to adopt the precautionary principle that absence of evidence was not evidence of absence .
10 Experiment 2 — A Trial over a Long Period
11 When some sociologists talk of the ‘ socialization function of the family ’ , therefore , they are not talking of a family deliberately and consciously performing a function assigned to it from outside by ‘ society ’ , but rather of a more subtle process that arises out of the facts of being married , of sharing a residence over a long period of time , and of parenthood .
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