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

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1 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 .
2 Although mistrusting children , he showed an absorbed interest as he took the photographs and gazed at Henrietta ( fourteen ) , Samantha ( just ten ) and the baby Jacqueline ( now three and born after a long period during which Hugh had displayed a lack of interest in physical contact ) .
3 After a long period of deliberation , during which Craganour 's owner Charles Bower Ismay was seen to become ever more pale , the official announcement was given : the race went to Aboyeur .
4 To give judgment upon these presentments , the ancient machinery of the Forest Eyre was once more set in motion after a long period of general disuse .
5 What distinguishes the companies still with us after a long period of recession is that they are lucky — they do not seem to have been hit by the unexpected .
6 It is only after a long period of counselling that she has at last realised that she has to drop her charge against her father , and to forgive him for not being the person that she longed he should be .
7 1976 ) , is being revived after a long period of disrepute .
8 After a long period of such government , an accumulation of demands for reform may build up , creating the possibility of a crisis based on unrealizable expectations .
9 On the other side is the organised working class : by the end of the 1960s , after a long period of relatively full employment , the trade unions were in a strong position both in terms of wage bargaining and in terms of the defensive ‘ veto power ’ which they were able to exercise over changes at the point of production seen as threatening workers ' interests .
10 It said ‘ Many of the smaller hard drives available , especially old ones , use Stepper Motor actuators and it is these that really require that a low level format be carried out on them at least once a year , as after a long period of heating and cooling it is more than possible that the heads are out of alignment with the tracks .
11 Two years of stability after a long period of severe hyperinflation have meant that Argentine publishing has begun to show some solidly healthy results .
12 And subsequently after a long period of time , the opinions of our members generally was that we should change the , the procedure .
13 Thus the death of Catherine I of Russia in 1727 and the changes it produced in Russian policy in the Baltic brought about a reconciliation with Britain after a long period of antagonism ; the death in 1762 of the Empress Elizabeth meant Russia 's immediate withdrawal from the Seven Years War ; and the accession to the throne of Frederick II was an essential preliminary to the Prussian attack on Silesia in 1740 .
14 After a long period of depression , and a short period of training , he had taken on a new career — one which also demanded dexterity with the hands : that of a mortician .
15 After a long period of drafting and redrafting , a European Merger Control Regulation ( Council Regulation 4064/89 ) finally came into force on 21 September 1990 .
16 Finally , from whatever defence line was established and after a long period of mobilization , Nato 's forces ( presumably mostly Anglo-American ) would launch the great counter-offensive .
17 Similarly , events arising out of long-standing difficulties would increase risk of depression : where , for instance , a husband left home after years of arguing and discord ; a child was arrested for burglary after a long history of behavioural problems at home and school ; or a substantial fine was incurred after a long period of extreme financial difficulty ( Brown et al. , 1987 ) .
18 Starting a trip that was once only the stuff of his dreams and prayers , the Pontiff said Lithuanians could now enjoy freedom ‘ after a long period of sufferings , trials and martyrdom . ’
19 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 .
20 The warrant boom of 1987–89 was the last phase of a long period of dramatic change for Japanese companies and their bankers .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 At the very moment when Hurd was preparing to unveil the fruits of a long period of gestation in the form of a White Paper on criminal justice , Lawson resigned as Chancellor .
24 The view that the major industrial nations are in a period of transition — at the end of a long period of industrialism and entering a new phase of post-industrialism — pre-dates the onset of deindustrialization and the debates around the issue .
25 By then the ethnic composition of its native population was multifarious and complex , being the result of a long period of prehistoric development .
26 By the 1690s , at the end of a long period of exceptionally rapid growth , London was by far the largest urban settlement in Europe , and poised to assume its later role as a metropolis .
27 Nonetheless , he condemned that same deluded world for its previous exclusion of Spain from the European Recovery Programme , thereby exacerbating the effects of a long period of exceptionally low rainfall .
28 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 .
29 We 're seeing the end of a long period of Cold War which effectively the West have won because they have kept their defences up , er and I think as Tom King , he was out here last week , has said we need to keep a strong force here to make sure that the Soviets keep their side of the bargain and er start a withdrawal at some stage .
30 Also in the crypt is the Duomo treasury , a pay-to-enter collection that is closed for a long period at lunch .
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