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

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1 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 .
2 The landlord requires security of income for a long period , and this is specially desirable where the landlord is an investing institution which pays out pensions or insurance policies , because a period of twenty-five years ' secure income facilitates the actuarial calculations necessary in order to determine the level of payments which the landlord can make .
3 Scientific work into the effects of vitamin E deficiency revealed that , in extreme cases , male animals deprived of the vitamin for a long period suffered irreparable damage to their testes .
4 By having an attack of the infectious disease the body is stimulated to produce appropriate antibodies not only to assist recovery but also to provide a sufficient quantity to remain in the blood for a longer period , sometimes throughout life , for example after an attack of rubella
5 Consequently many Greek writers of the fifth century and later realized that their own society was the end-product of a long period of advance .
6 In any case , a study of neolithic Early Minoan buildings very strongly implies that the temples were not an implant but the result of a long period of indigenous development .
7 By then the ethnic composition of its native population was multifarious and complex , being the result of a long period of prehistoric development .
8 Professor John in a seminal article stressed the great importance of the coincidence of a modest rate of population growth , putting no general pressure on a food supply expanded by a generation of agricultural improvement , with the bounty of a long period of good harvests .
9 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 .
10 Pre-emptive local anaesthetic field block for inguinal herniorrhaphy resulted in reduced pain scores and a delay in requests for analgesia during the six hours studied by Ejlersen et al , but similar work detected no pre-emptive effect over a longer period .
11 Light : Requires plenty of bright light over a longer period than is required by most other plants .
12 Light : Requires bright light over a longer period than is required for most aquarium plants .
13 Light : Needs very good light over a longer period than is used for other water plants Water temperature : 68°–78°F .
14 This applied to many houses in the street , presumably brought about by the making up of the road with gravel over a long period .
15 There was considerable vaginal dilation ; in my view , only consistent with full penetration over a long period .
16 It may also be possible to argue that where the party has failed to respond to a notice of assignment from the purchaser , such lack of action over a long period is an implied consent where that party has dealt with the purchaser after completion .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 If I get a movie script which means that I 've got to be away from home for a long period then I turn it down . ’
20 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 .
21 Young people , the unemployed and women returning to work after a long period at home will have to show extra ingenuity to extract evidence of their work skills and potential from their life history .
22 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 .
23 But if we turn to consider the [ … ] supply price with reference to a long period of time , we shall find that it is governed by a different set of causes , and with different results .
24 Records may have to be kept for reference over a long period of time and therefore they must be adequately protected .
25 Other families need help over a longer period , although the group is careful not to overlap with the work of professional staff from the social services .
26 Other types of skin cancer are associated with continued exposure to the sun over a long period .
27 The two main sets of circumstances to which the Act is normally applied relate first to mental disorder and secondly to self-neglect over a long period .
28 The directors are accordingly not obliged to maximise current profits in order to satisfy short-term demands for dividends at the expense of a growth in profitability over a longer period .
29 Permanent income can be thought of as the present value of the expected flow of income from the existing stock of both ‘ human ’ and ‘ non-human ’ wealth over a long period of time .
30 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 .
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