Example sentences of "of [art] long period [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the framework gave no hint of the long periods of time during which tool types were in use , sites that were originally considered to be contemporary were subsequently found to be separated by hundreds or thousands of years . |
| 2 | Of large industrial countries , the UK permits one of the longest periods at four months . |
| 3 | By 1970 , with the passing of the old empire , these were all over , and only the totally unexpected war with Argentina over the Falklands in 1982 interrupted what was one of the longest periods of unbroken peace that Britain had known since the later middle ages . |
| 4 | A prices and incomes accord , negotiated in 1983 , had ( with several revisions ) covered the whole of the Hawke government 's period in office and was credited by its advocates with having created 300,000 jobs , reduced real unit labour costs and underpinned one of the longest periods of industrial harmony in the country 's history . |
| 5 | Above all , he established a rapport between himself and the leading noblemen , his companions in arms , which formed the basis of the longest period of political stability the country had known since the early years of Edward I. These achievements , however , had their price . |
| 6 | The percentage of time at pH<4 , the minutes at pH<4 , the number of episodes of reflux , those lasting longer than five minutes , and the duration of the longest period of reflux were calculated with Esophogram 9802 Version 5.10 ( Synectics Medical , Stockholm ) . |
| 7 | Overnight exposure of the oesophagus to acid , the number of reflux episodes longer than five minutes , and the duration of the longest period of reflux were significantly greater in patients with impaired peritalsis . |
| 8 | The warrant boom of 1987–89 was the last phase of a long period of dramatic change for Japanese companies and their bankers . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | By then the ethnic composition of its native population was multifarious and complex , being the result of a long period of prehistoric development . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Should we dump everything down onto a long-term storage medium and select at the end of a longer period of time with the benefit of historical hindsight , say after 25 years ? |