Example sentences of "so long [art] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , the committee , to be commended for having conducted its extensive researches and drawn its conclusions within a few months , has the advantage of immediacy over the Clark and Palmer committees , which sat over so long a period , in a rapidly changing environment , that eventually no one who was still able to recall the original brief was sure whether it was still relevant to the prevailing situation . |
| 2 | After so long a period of remorseless manufacturing decline in the UK , to hope for a reversal might seem wishful thinking . |
| 3 | After so long a period of remorseless manufacturing decline in the UK , to hope for a reversal might seem wishful thinking . |
| 4 | At the same time as this was happening teachers demanded to be treated ‘ as professionals ’ , scornfully ignoring the view , repeatedly expressed , that the disruption of children 's education for so long a period was hardly the behaviour that one might expect from members of a ‘ profession ’ . |
| 5 | But while a majority of informed public opinion , the target of persistent lobbying over so long a period , moved decisively towards outright abolition , fortified by the anomalous decisions resulting from the 1957 Homicide Act , the views of the general public continued to be hostile and mostly out of sympathy with the prevailing climate at Westminster and Whitehall . |
| 6 | He writes : Molla Hacihasanzade , who became kazasker for twenty-five years continuously through purposing the turning away and hindering of those capable of achieving renown by directing them to the path of kaza [ kadilik ] and of those who were spoken of as outstanding in excellence among their contemporaries by impeding their passage through the ranks ; and who had by this stratagem , over so long a period , found safety from the crush of those ulema who , by right of learning and excellence , might have passed through the ranks and become rivals to him … |
| 7 | Lord Pearce said , ‘ The only reasonable inference from the regular course of dealing over so long a period is that the buyers were evincing an acceptance of , and a readiness to be bound by , the printed conditions of whose existence they were well aware although they had not troubled to read them . ’ |
| 8 | This austere doctrine meant for Frederick a lifetime of toil and effort : no monarch in the history of Europe has worked so hard over so long a period to meet obligations which were essentially self-imposed . |