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

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1 Shale sections benefit from a long period with 0.25 µm powder , as this gives very slow removal of material without plucking of quartz grains .
2 ‘ … and the pathetic thing was that he thought he had just recovered from a long period of madness . ’
3 These measures had resulted from a long period of maturation and fitted into Morrison 's 1944 vision of a ‘ legislative programme of social reconstruction ’ after the war had ended .
4 He had sought and received asylum in the Senegalese embassy in Conakry only a month after his return home from a long period of exile [ see p. 38181 ] .
5 By the last decade of Henry VIlI 's reign , if not before , England was beginning to recover from a long period of population decline .
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