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

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1 Instead that sense has to be nurtured by more direct experience over a long period of time .
2 Indeed , as the indices stubbornly refused to improve , there seemed little prospect that interest rates would not remain at this historically high level for a long period to come .
3 The explanation is that , given a totally unvarying diet over a long period of time , especially if it is from kittenhood right through into adult life , a cat 's ‘ food variety mechanism ’ gets worn down and is finally switched off altogether .
4 Those few casual workers in the catering industry who do seem to work on a more or less continuous , almost full-time basis over a long period for a single organisation ( the plaintiffs in the oft-cited " O'Kelly case " ) , tend to possess skills which that organisation , and indeed other potential employers , value .
5 Thus you will already be aerobically fit , that is able to sustain a relatively low work-load over a long period .
6 The results they obtained suggested a close relationship between changes in the United States ' money supply and changes in money national income over a long period of time .
7 If all had gone well the husband would have earned very large sums for a long period so that he could have maintained them at least at their standard of living at the time of his death , and made other provisions for the future .
8 A case reports and clinical-epidemiological studies have evaluated the cancer risk in patients who have abused anthranoid laxatives over a long period .
9 A case report and clinical-epidemiological studies in patients who have misused anthranoid laxatives over a long period should be considered in a final risk assessment for colorectal cancer in man .
10 This can have a rather unsettling effect over a long period — the family man can not promise to take his children to the seaside or his wife out to dinner more than a week ahead without the chance that he might be in India , California or Scotland at the time he promised .
11 Recall from Chapter 19 that this is a long-run measure of income which can be thought of as the present value of the expected flow of income from the stock of human and non-human wealth over a long period of time .
12 Poor timekeeping over a long period usually amounts to misconduct .
13 It reached its present form over a long period of time during which there have been numerous law changes — not all of which have achieved their desired result , as Ian Kirkpatrick , Rutherford 's South African counterpart , was the first to point out .
14 Batteries last longer if they are charged and discharged in deep cycles over a long period .
15 We therefore laid our plans and moved out in good order over a long period of time .
16 Fred has been encouraging pilferage over a long period .
17 There was considerable vaginal dilation ; in my view , only consistent with full penetration over a long period .
18 The majority of the work shown was very recent , but several of the pieces date back as much as 10 years revealing her fascination with the themes from classical mythology over a long period .
19 Alison is an artist who has made an important contribution over a long period
20 Damien , the wild card , has had a very visible year whilst Alison is an artist who has made an important contribution over a long period .
21 the nature of the caring relationship is likely to be based on love and mutual support over a long period of time .
22 He has been a doughty fighter over a long period in favour of the use of democracy and dialogue and in condemnation of the use of violence .
23 Such horses that are locked up in stables without sensory stimulation for a long period will become permanently more anxious and fearful .
24 However , a syndrome of this severity is not commonly reported in foals under natural conditions , probably because larval intake is continuous during grazing ; it has been show experimentally that foals may tolerate large numbers of larvae administered in small doses over a long period .
25 Joseph Louis Barrow was , like Johnson , a formidable boxer who exerted total domination for a long period .
26 Common sense as well as medical evidence tells us , however , that excessive drinking over a long period of time can lead to health problems — and that drinking vast quantities in a short space of time is both foolish and dangerous .
27 These data suggest that the selection of a relative who gives moral support is related partly to the composition of the kin group and partly to the quality of a particular relationship over a long period of time .
28 Cook has incidentally been given a testimonial season by Transvaal for his outstanding services over a long period .
29 An important aspect would be a study of the progress of a sample of young people over a long period .
30 The incubation period may be up to one year , and this makes it difficult in many cases to decide from whom the warts have been caught ; not only that , but they often seem to have been seeded on the principle adhered to by market gardeners , to give successive crops over a long period .
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