Example sentences of "[prep] [art] long period in " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is often impossible to obtain , however , as many of the torture techniques leave few visible injuries , or only superficial injuries which disappear during the long period in police custody . |
| 2 | It was as if our vision was a piece of elastic which was being stretched for the first time after a long period in a drawer . |
| 3 | Those and many other pressures may distract them from remaining for a long period in the Territorial Army . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Figure 18.4 shows , by means of five-year moving averages of deaths per million in England and Wales , how the disease has behaved over a long period in relation to other serious illnesses . |