Example sentences of "over [art] long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think that I am probably a bit sharper in the burst than over the long distance but during the two ‘ B ’ games I felt really sharp and I have been working on my speed and strength with the SRU fitness specialist , David McLean ’ . |
| 2 | The teachers , however , decided that we needed to be kept busy over the long weekend and gave us lots of work to do . |
| 3 | Over 170 cyclists gathered in the grounds of Drumlanrig Castle , near Thornhill in Dumfriesshire , over the long weekend of May ‘ -25 to celebrate 152 years of the invention , by Kirkpatrick Macmillan , of our favourite form of transport and recreation . |
| 4 | My teaching finished just before Easter , and on my way north I went to the national cycle rally , which was held in a motor camp near Blenheim over the long weekend . |
| 5 | The Government 's principal task in the months to come will be to restore the right mix of monetary and fiscal policy — now badly out of balance — so that interest rates have a better chance of coming down , and staying down over the long run . |
| 6 | The important result is that in an uncertain world companies like to maintain a stable payout ratio over the long run . |
| 7 | It is to be hoped that some of the numerous shales in the Devonian and Carboniferous sections may prove to have been sufficiently ductile to restrain escape over the long timespan involved , despite the degree of deformation to which they have been subjected . |
| 8 | In other words , if fewer teeth were filled to begin with , and more worn fillings were repaired , rather than replaced , their owners would have less need for crowns , dentures , root-canal therapy and dental implants over the long haul . |
| 9 | It is the one approach that can maintain and improve America 's competitive performance — and America 's standard of living — over the long haul . |
| 10 | Over the long haul , my penis might be more of a curse than a blessing and it might fall short of the goals I set for it . |
| 11 | The arts world has almost grown accustomed to the hand-to-mouth condition in which it is kept , but what it has not become resigned to over the long period of Tory rule is the positive hostility to its aims and values . |
| 12 | Both may be guessing , although the Encomiast is reasonably well-informed on the campaigns late in Æthelred II's reign , and William 's report of mixed methods need not be far wrong , even if it is a guess ; the armies which troubled England over the long period between c.985 and 1016 do often seem to have comprised the warbands of a number of men , are unlikely to have been organised and commanded solely by Danish kings , did not consist entirely of Danes , and frequently appear to have been motivated mainly by a desire for booty . |
| 13 | We spent the first day getting over the long flight ( though with only three hours time difference there was no appreciable jet-lag ) and having a look round the town . |
| 14 | Over the long term continuity is more apparent than discontinuity . |
| 15 | Over the long term , if Britain saved more it could grow faster . |
| 16 | Find two ideas that we could develop over the long term . |
| 17 | Again , this is information which is useful to you over the long term . |
| 18 | Over the long term there has been an ‘ age-migration ’ of the accident statistics , whereby the number of under-15s killed per annum has fallen by 61 per cent from 1927–82 compared to an 80 per cent increase for the 15–24 year old group . |
| 19 | All the inverts that you are considering are suitable over the long term , but do steer clear of hard corals . |
| 20 | Over the long term cattle theft was dependent on the position of cattle , the major form of mobile wealth in a rice-based economy . |
| 21 | Mr Barfield also suggested that boardroom pay should be tied to shareholder value creation , which would focus management on developing value over the long term and act as ‘ an antidote to short-termism ’ . |
| 22 | Again , this is information which is useful to you over the long term . |
| 23 | The effects of geomagnetic and solar activity over the long term are important factors in planning satellite missions . |
| 24 | This second year of decline followed eight years of modest growth ; but over the long term independent schools have been losing market share . |
| 25 | Over the long term equities generate much higher returns than bonds , and allow investors to spread risk by diversifying their assets . |
| 26 | Mutual support in troubled times then , is seen as a reciprocal reward for cooperation over the long term . |
| 27 | Employers also try to discourage the mobility of their highly skilled labour because they wish to retrieve the investment made in training over the long term , and they certainly would not want competing firms to poach labour that they have trained . |
| 28 | The question of international respect for the US was clearly at issue in the Iran hostage crisis , and over the long term this matter had a relentlessly negative effect on Carter 's chances of re-election . |
| 29 | The graph in Figure 11.1 is useful because it illustrates the relationship between the real money stock and real national income over the long term , ( more than 100 years ) , which is equivalent to comparing the actual money stock with nominal national income . |
| 30 | Over the long term we can detect three broad tendencies : the conservative , authoritarian often expressed in the actions of social morality campaigns ; the liberal often in the vanguard of reforming activity ; and the radical , libertarian ; the first asserting the importance of absolute moral standards ; the second by and large seeking relaxation within a traditional framework of family values ; and the third advocating a transformation of values . |