Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] over 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 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 .
3 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 .
4 Thus you will already be aerobically fit , that is able to sustain a relatively low work-load over a long period .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 Poor timekeeping over a long period usually amounts to misconduct .
9 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 .
10 We therefore laid our plans and moved out in good order over a long period of time .
11 Fred has been encouraging pilferage over a long period .
12 There was considerable vaginal dilation ; in my view , only consistent with full penetration over a long period .
13 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 .
14 Alison is an artist who has made an important contribution over a long period
15 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 .
16 the nature of the caring relationship is likely to be based on love and mutual support over a long period of time .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 And for cooking the tastiest casseroles , there 's a special ‘ Slow-set ’ facility which lets you leave the food to cook itself at a very low temperature over a long period .
21 Accordingly , on 12 June 1940 Lord Woolton , Minister of Food , despatched a memorandum to the Food Policy Committee of the War Cabinet in which he identified three groups in the population to whom food distribution should be improved : workers in factories ( ‘ if we are to obtain the maximum production over a long period of time from them ’ ) , people on low incomes and ‘ children of school age and under and nursing mothers whom , on grounds both of humanity and of racial preservation , it is essential we should protect against malnutrition ’ .
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