Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] long period of " in BNC.

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1 After a century there began a long period of sea warfare and skirmishing over the north of Ulthuan .
2 There then followed a long period of muddle and confusion not helped by the fact that no one had a recent photograph of Blake and that it was a Saturday evening .
3 There followed a long period of explanation of what we did followed by negotiations on what we would have to do to meet the standard .
4 Clarkson 's account of his entry into his antislavery role stressed the long period of crisis in which he indecisively debated with himself and James Ramsay what to do .
5 Second , a large proportion of the older workers had a long period of service with the same company before being made redundant .
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