Example sentences of "long [art] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can spread the payments over as long a period as you like . |
| 2 | The danger for the Government is that it may all come just a bit too late to expunge the memories of our current travails and of too long a period of neglect for the supply-side of the economy to respond . |
| 3 | Hahnemann felt that the ‘ single dose and wait ’ philosophy left too long a period of inaction and the speed of cure often too slow as the practitioner could do nothing but wait for the remedy to complete its ' curative curve . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Exposing the board for too long a period will rarely cause any damage , but troublesome problems can be caused by underexposure , when the UV sensitive coating will not have thoroughly reacted to the UV light . |
| 6 | After so long a period of remorseless manufacturing decline in the UK , to hope for a reversal might seem wishful thinking . |
| 7 | After so long a period of remorseless manufacturing decline in the UK , to hope for a reversal might seem wishful thinking . |
| 8 | We were in danger of creating a system which would involve testing over far too long a period of time . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | How long a period of extended credit should be allowed ? |
| 12 | I shared command of the big " V " with two other skippers , Doug Thompson and Denis Mawe , as H.Q. frowned on any policy that kept an officer away from his home port and normal customs duties for too long a period . |
| 13 | 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 … |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | No matter for how long a period lifers are detained , the Home Secretary will release those people only if he considers that it is safe to do so . |
| 17 | And over how long a period should the migration be taken . |
| 18 | It is possible to start with 1.2A after 1.1Z , but this is symptomatic of too long a period between approvals . |